Honeymoons -Off topic

[slinkedog]

Blaine and I went to Port Townsend, WA for our honeymoom. We had wanted to go to a remote bay on Vancouver Island to do a kayaking/hiking honeymoon, but found out it would take forever to get there and involve an exeedingly long ferry trip or the expense of hiring a float plane. So we settled for Port Townsend, which is very beautiful and charming.

The first night (the day after our wedding) we went to a wonderful restaurant suggested by our innkeeper. Afterwards, we drove to the west coast to watch the incredible sunset. Bear in mind that Blaine was sick with an intestinal bug for the few days leading up to our wedding. So we're on this remote beach, watching the sunset, and I realize that I need to *go* really bad. We start back to the car, and it's getting to be an emergency. We're heading back into town on a two lane road and get behind THE SLOWEST driver in the universe. There's no way we're going to make it back to town before I have a messy accident all over the car, at this point. We start searching for an advantageous place to stop when Blaine spots a Porta-Potty near a construction site on the side of the road. I make him get out of the car first to make sure it's not locked. Praise the urological gods... it's open. I make it. I struggle for most of the remainder of the trip with a very sensitive tummy, but we still have fun. Blaine and I did not live together before we got married, and we, erm, waited, so it was definitely an ice breaker, so to speak!

We still got to do all the stuff we planned, like sea kayaking and bike riding (we rented a tandem). We went to Victoria for a day and Blaine came down with strep throat and started running a fever as we were waiting for the ferry to take us back to Port Angeles. We go to the doctor in the morning and get some antibiotics. Blaine is a total trooper, though, and we went hiking in Olympic National Park that day.

All in all, we had a really wonderful honeymoon. I'd like to go back to PT some day. Sorry this was like the longest post in the history of the board.