Mr. and Mrs. Brent Shannon

April 18th came and went...so hard to believe it's over! The wedding was so great! Despite the early morning showers/clouds Saturday evening was beautiful! I had such a blast at the reception...all the stress and tears paid off big time! The candy bar, which ended up being more effort than ever imagined, was a hit (or so I was told, repeatedly). Everyone seemed to enjoy the photobooth as well....Brent and I managed to get in there together, oh, once. We realized later that other than the tiny portion we fed each other, neither of us actually had a piece of our wedding cakes!....Brent took that pretty hard.

All that aside, the honeymoon was so wonderful. We traveled to Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, for 9 days. It was so beautiful! The first 5 days we stayed on the north shore in Kahuku in an amazing 3 bedroom villa with a perfect view of the ocean from our balcony. The first few days Brent was actually pretty sick, coughing, aching....so we stayed in day one just lounging and watching tv/movies. Afterwards, when he began to recoop....I got it. Yay for sharing germs! We still managed to snorkel, briefly as the water was not my optimal temp. nor am I thrilled with the idea of breathing through a small tube. I did, however, surprise Brent and manage to hang in there for quite sometime!

We traveled to Hukilau for my first banana pancakes! My new favorite food. YUM!!

We also went hiking in, I swear, a tropical rain forest. So beautiful. We hiked up to the top to a waterfall!

We finished out our last four days roughing it at the Royal Hawaiian in Waikiki. It was tough. We were greeted with real flower leis and beads. Provided a moist towel and smoothie at our check-in, along with complimentary breakfast throughout our stay, and half-day in the beach side cabana and our own Hawaiian CD. Practically camping.

Our cabana, beach side, came equipped with the following:

chilled bottled water, fruit tray, oh and a personal cell phone to our 'assistant' (just in case we needed something and she hadn't checked back with us for 10+). Just your basic necessities really.

We also took a catamaran to watch the sunset. Ate pineapple burgers, shaved ice/snow cones from the famous Matsumotos (with, of course, ice cream on the bottom...yummy). Oh, and I'm officially a surfer girl. Totally surfed it up!