honeymoon: molokai

 Molokai was absolutely amazing...beautiful and peaceful! It was so desolate which was so neat and it really felt like our own paradise. We rented a little cottage right on the water where we had our own little beach.

  

the front yard

the little beach

Our cottage...the grounds were so gorgeous.

The island was so different from one side to the other. The east side was rocky and mountainous and the west side was red dirt and looked like out west.

Lots of roads looked just like the one below...this one took you to the beach.

our ride

The beach on the west side of the island. The sand in Hawaii is so different then Florida. You seriously sink in this sand and it's like walking through snow.

Matt took this picture and I think he did a really good job!

Driving around the island was so fun! The island was only 50 miles long and about 12 miles wide, but we managed to go 400 miles while we were there. Matt loved all the off-roading that he got to do.

 The sunsets were breathtaking.

Kalaupapa is a former leprosy village on Molokai. There are a couple of survivors that still live there today and you can't go into the village unless you are a doctor or you are being sponsored. This is as close as you can get.

Papohaku Beach-- we found this beautiful beach the day before we left. We watched one beautiful sunset there and then we went there the next day to hang out before our flight left. In the three mile stretch of sand, the most people we saw was a total of six.

honeymoon: la

I am so happy to be married now. I still have a hard time believing it's true and I'm not living in a dream. I feel like since about two days before the wedding, I have been dreaming. If it is a dream, I don't ever want to wake up. :)

Life has been kinda' getting back to "normal" the last couple of weeks. It was hard coming back from the honeymoon and Matt going back to work. Now it's been getting the house put together and this week I started back to work part time.

We finally have internet (long story, huh..) and I am so happy I can post again.

Here are some pictures from Los Angeles...

The beach near the hotel had this beautiful pier.

So this restaurant has a funny little story... Matt and I both like Mexican food and we both like hot(spicy) food. We had seen this restaurant and thought we would try it out one day for lunch. The food was really good, but we picked the most spicy thing on the menu and... WOW!!! This stuff was so spicy that I had to stop eating it because my mouth was literally burning. Matt did finish his, of course (it was really because he wanted to say he endurded it and ate the whole thing).We both got the same thing which was a mistake because at least we could have balanced it out with some not as spicy food. Anyways, it was quite the food experience that we had a good laugh about.

the rental car 

beautiful sunsets 

 These light things were near the airport and they would change colors. We thought they were really cool!