"this is the moment of sweet Aloha..."

I've been waiting to blog about the wedding until I had pictures from it, but I still don't have pictures, so....honeymoon it is! I told Logan to surprise me with where we were going, and he actually did a really good job not blowing it. He even said all kinds of things to throw me off the trail. I had my guesses, but I wasn't entirely sure. Then, at the reception, his Grandma was talking to me and said, "so...when do you leave for Hawaii?" I smirked and glanced across the room at him and answered: "um...tomorrow?" but when I told him she totally told me, he just insisted she had no idea and that was NOT where we were going.
We stayed in the Hawaii suite in Logan, Utah that night which was super amazing, and then headed down to fly out of Vegas the next morning. I didn't know for sure where we were going until we got to the airport and he gave me a present to let me know. Drumroll....what? you guessed already?

Woo hoo! Hawaii!! Ha ha.

We stayed the first two nights in Waikiki in a hotel overlooking the ocean, then we rented a car and stayed on the North Shore in a rental home. That was awesome. We were across the street from Shark's cove where we went snorkeling, a bike ride away from Sunset beach where we went almost every night to watch the sunset, a little ways away from Motsumoto for the best shave ice around, and not far at all from most of the other beaches. We loved it.
We made shirts before we left:

We went to the Laie Temple and I finally got my dream of going inside. 

We went to The Polynesian Cultural Center and they called us on stage to dance to The Hawaiian Wedding song during the luau feast, and they congratulated us on getting married. 

We sat on the beach and drank caramel apple spice cider together

 We rode beach cruisers to the beach and we got to see sea turtles

We went on a really cool hike up to a waterfall.

We got a convertible camero for the week we were on North Shore and it was so much fun 

We drove back to Waikiki and got to go parasailing over the ocean together

we got shave ice every day

We met the awesome guy from Hawaii 5-0 and he was just as cool in person

we watched the sunset together on sunset beach

we watched fireworks on the beach on Aloha Friday

It was the perfect honeymoon.

aaand, this is what I brought back. good riddance, bad dreams! doesn't it look like it was made for me? :)