The Honeymoon

We had a very interesting honeymoon. We had decided to move to Tennessee for the summer, but since we didn't have anything we needed to go through the gifts we received to take things out we needed. So we spent the whole day the day after the wedding opening gifts, writing the list for thank-you cards, and packing up what to take and taking the rest to a storage unit. It was super exhausting and took a lot longer than we expected.

The next day we planned on driving 6 hours to Cheyenne Wyoming. Then we planned on messing around there for the evening. The next morning my dad woke us up to tell us that I-80 was closed from snow and we could not go to Wyoming. Instead we decided go through Denver Colorado on our way East. Denver was over an hour of a longer drive and we didn't have a place lined up to stay, so we ended up getting in pretty late.

The next day we were going to Winter Quarters Nebraska and were going to go to the temple there. We had called ahead and had our name ready for the last session of the day. But it adds another hour to go to Nebraska from Colorado instead of Wyoming. Also that day the car's check engine light came on and Brian spent an hour on the phone with my dad trying to make sure the car would make it the rest of the way across the country. (Just as a side note, the car's check engine light still comes on every time we go on a long trip, I think the car is just tired). On top of that Brian and I had forgot that you lose time as you go from West to East, and had not counted an extra hour in our driving time. With all the lost time we got to Winter Quarters 2 hours after the session was supposed to start.

Even though things were not going as planned we were excited because our next stop was Nauvoo Illinois. We planned to go to the temple there and to see the sites and were going to stay for several days. When we left Nebraska neither of us were hungry so we decided to look for somewhere to eat breakfast. Well there is nowhere to eat in Nebraska, soon we were starving and found that there are no restaurants. We ate snacked for hours until we finally got to a place that had somewhere to eat.

We got into Nauvoo late that evening. I had this nasty pimple that I was trying to hide (who wants a pimply bride). That night I was messing with it and realized it wasn't actually a pimple it was a crop up of the staff infection I had had earlier. The next morning I told Brian and he took me to the local emergency room. The doctor said it was just a rash, and I had to get my Utah doctor on the phone to convince him to give me antibiotics. It had taken me longer than before to realize something was wrong, so I was feeling quite sick. I ended up spending most of our time in Nauvoo laying in our hotel bed, while Brian played on his playstation. I did end up feeling well enough the last day to go to a couple of sites. I did not go to the temple because I was afraid of making old people sick.

From Nauvoo we were to drive to Knoxville, and then we were to go to a cabin in the mountains for a few days. When we left Nauvoo we ended up on the wrong road and had to take out the atlas to figure out how to get back on track. On the road we ended up taking we were behind a semi going slow so Brian didn't have to pay attention to his speed. Then we thought Brian's bike was coming loose off the car. So Brian pulled over to fix it. When he got back on the road he continued to just drive and not watch his speed. Well there was not a semi in front of us, but there was a cop behind us, who we didn't see trying to pull us over for a long time because of the bike. He was not enthused and gave Brian a ticket.

Later that day I was driving and some body on the interstate told us to get off. Turned out we had a flat tire. We went to the first place we saw to get it fixed, a Sam's Club. When we got there we bought a Sam's Club membership and went back and asked them to fix our tire. They said they couldn't fix our tire because they were not Sam's Club tires. We were so annoyed and told the guy working there our whole sad story about being on our honeymoon, and me being sick, and he agreed to fix it.

After that we made it uneventfully into Knoxville, but really late. We never did end up going to the cabin because I didn't feel good. But I did have a job interview the last day we would have been at the cabin.

Someday we will try for a honeymoon again.