Monday, June 8, 2020

"Homeymoon"




HEY everyone. 

          We told you all about our wedding and the tortuous and uncertain path we took, but now that we are married and wake up every morning to each other, we promise the blog will take a happier note. The happiest note is of course the wedding, and for many couples the honeymoon takes a great importance in the commencement of their lives together. It’s the trip that couples always remember as that one trip where it is always about love and starting your marriage off with just a relaxation period after a hectic stint of wedding planning.
           As you can tell from the trend in this blog, our honeymoon was cancelled due to (stupid) COVID 19.
          We are wanderlusters even before we met each other. We travelled to quite a few places on our own and this just solidified the inherent need to explore and learn about new cultures.
                                   

On a Eurotrip and of course stopping at the famous Eiffel Tower. 



 Camps Bay, South Africa




Reynisfjara, black sand beach just outside the town of Vik, Iceland.




Skógafoss waterfall ,Iceland.

Our wanderlusting (and budget restrictions) led us to plan a trip to Cancun, Mexico. I would always picture white sand, blazing sun, mojitos and of course my hubby and I just lounging by the beach eating all the food. lol

           I was determined to not let the dream and the spirit of our honeymoon be diminished!! We had a week before work restarted, it was gonna be AWESOME!
Enter the HOMEYMOON experience!!!
We did a variety of activities that were very much like the actual honeymoon and resort experience:

  • .       We ate and drank our bellies full of exotic food and drinks, with quite a ‘crowd’ of people. They were just immediate family members and we had curry duck and paratha for lunch! We drank a mix of white oak rum and Malibu which was surprisingly not bad. 
          (Interesting tidbit: White Oak rum is a smooth Caribbean white rum produced locally here in              Trinidad and Tobago by an internationally renowned rum company, Angostura.)

  • .       We spent the night (well at least part of it..cough cough) looking at stars and we actually saw two shooting stars! We both made wishes about the future of our family and what we would want our love to look like in the years to come.

  • .       We did a couples cooking class, Even though we have the combined culinary talent of a five year old with a plastic knife, we found some simple recipes online (will link them to the blog) and made a chicken parmesan pasta that wasn’t half bad. (Please note there were no visits to the hospital and no cuts and bruises during this exercise.)

  • .       Couple’s massage….. (lets keep this pg.. wink wink)


Underscoring all of these activities we talked about our future our plans for our family and how we were going to live this ‘new normal’, aka covid and married life.

Look out for our future posts about our double whammied ‘new normal’.


13 comments:

  1. This is an absolutely honest and meaningful post. Truly from the heart Kamlaa

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  2. Omg you were right next to each other in Paris and didn't even see each other. Just like an Indian soap opera

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  3. Iceland is awesome. You guys have some great pics! Please post more

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  4. I laughed out loud at the crowd of people comment. I would have come for Curry Duck and Dhalpouri though

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  5. Congratulations to you both! Such lovely photos! In love with the picture from black sand beach , Iceland.

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  6. These activities sound like a lot of fun. Couples cooking and couples massage for the winn

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  7. This was a fun and honest post. Looking forward to the others ����

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