Cabo -- Day 4

The day after the wedding, you would have thought we'd just want to relax right?  Not quite.  Troy has always wanted to go deep-sea fishing, so at a bright and early time of 6am, he headed down to the marina in Cabo San Lucas with Dan, Bryan, and Derek.  Despite Troy getting a bit sea sick (sorry Derek!), they had a great time and each of them caught a few yellowfin tuna.  Most notable was Dan's catch of a 110lb. striped marlin which took 45 minutes to reel in.  45 minutes!  I can't believe something taking that long to reel in, but then again, it was 11o lbs.

    

Since they left for about half the day, I talked Rosie, Erin, and Val into going on the zipline tour with me.  It was CRAZY.  Not only do you ride ziplines over canyons (which was all I thought the tour included), you also had to walk a small rope across the canyon with only the help of another rope at chest height, rock climb or climb a ladder up part of the canyon, swing across the canyon on a tarzan swing, as well as walk across a bridge with ropes aiding you across.  What a rush!

       

                                                   Rosie on the zipline                           Carefully walking the tight rope

       

                                                        Erin as "Tarzan"                          Yes, that bridge was rather high!

Val -- the only one of us to take the harder route of rock climbing!

After all of us got back, it was time to cool off in the pool.  Most of us went to Himitsu for dinner (an awesome Asian restaurant!).  Since we didn't have our wedding cake yet, they were nice enough to serve it to us here...

    

After dinner, we stopped at another bar for a quick picture -- not only do they have a swim-up bar, but they also have bars without chairs -- instead they have swings!  Talk about original!  Then it was to the smaller pool where Ian decided to go for a quick dip, while Kelly and Val danced to the music of a nearby wedding!

  

Up Next:  Day 5

Cabo -- Day 3

It's the Wedding Day!

Thursday morning, Troy and I got up to eat an early breakfast before we had our spa appointments.  In our wedding package from the resort, we got a free 1 hour massage and then I got a facial afterwards.  A nice, relaxing way to start the day.  We met everyone at the pool after the spa and hung out there, had lunch, and had more pool time before going to the room to get ready.  Surprisingly, I was not the least bit nervous, but then again, it didn't quite seem real yet.  So, at about 3pm, I went back to the room, showered, and waited for Nicole to come to my room.  I helped her with her hair (she was going to wear it straight) and then she started my hair (which I was going to wear curly).  With a few drinks and a few visitors (my mom, Val, and Kelly), everything was good and at 5:50pm, my dad came down and we were on our way to walk towards the gazebo, the wedding site.  Before I post lots of pictures, I have to say that everything was perfect and I wouldn't have changed a thing.  I was not the sobbing bride that I was afraid I would be (due to nerves -- which I had for maybe 10 minutes max!)...I was actually the "I-can't-stop-smiling-bride" which of course I preferred!  Our photographer, Jerome Dieu, from Mango Productions, took some amazing pictures and can you believe that we got them (along with a video of the wedding) only 4 days later, on Monday?!?! 

   

Our Mexican Trio playing the wedding march

My dad walking me to my future husband

Our Officiant, Marco Arechiga, was awesome...and hilarious!

We couldn't have done it without our parents...

"You may now kiss the bride"

and kiss we did!

Officially Mr. and Mrs. Perez

Champaign toast

After our champaign toast, Troy and I went off with our photographer and got some pictures with our friends and family, and then just by ourselves on the beach, while our guests were able to enjoy some cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.  Unfortunately there is not enough room on this blog to post all 275 pictures, but here are a few of our favorites...

      

After cocktail hour and pictures, it was time for dinner.  But before dinner, we had our first dance as husband and wife, to the song "If I Should Fall Behind" by Bruce Springsteen.  For dinner, our first course was an asparagus and tomato salad.  Next was a tomato basil soup.  Third, we had lime sorbet with tequila touch.  Our main course was lobster and filet mignon, to finish with a coconut cake with malibu touch.  The food was AMAZING!  So amazing in fact that we didn't have any room for wedding cake.  So we at least cut the cake and had them save it for us to eat the next day.

    

After dinner, everyone decided to change (it was a hot and steamy 105 degrees and sunny on our wedding...I can't blame them!) and meet up at Desires Lounge for Rock Band.  I know, can you believe it?  They had a Rock Band competition on our wedding day!  Unfortunately, when we got there, we noticed some sparks while they were setting up the equipment.  Needless to say, there was no Rock Band that night.  So, we called it a night and went back to our room...to a wonderful surprise.  Our room was all decorated with rose petals and candles to celebrate our wedding night!

   

     

What a fabulous day -- from beginning to end!  

Cabo -- Day 2

Today the guys and girls split up for part of the day for some pre-wedding activities.  The guys went on an ATV tour which took them through the hilly desert and the beach.  It was VERY dusty and hot (Troy says it wasn't an activity for the girls -- we wouldn't have lasted -- apparently we are weak...whatever!)

As for the girls, we stayed at the resort in a nice air conditioned suite!  During my wedding planning, I found an awesome salon that would actually come to your resort and perform manicures, pedicures, and facials right in your room!  Suzanne Morel's crew came out for the afternoon, decorated my suite like a real spa/salon and pampered us.  Along with room service for lunch and drinks, we were all set!

    

After the guys got back, we spent a little bit of time in the pool and then got ready to go to Portofino, a formal Italian restaurant, which kind of served as our "rehearsal dinner".

After Portofino, we hung around the lobby for a bit, took pictures, and then head off to Desires Lounge -- it was karaoke night -- and considering many of us are not karaoke people, it was quite interesting.  They had a contest and Troy got 19/20 on Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" and Ian got 19/20 on Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline".  Unfortunately the 5 of us girls didn't rank very high, but we still had a blast (Unfortunately I didn't take any of the karaoke pictures, so those will be added at another time!)

  

Trouble Maker #1 and Trouble Maker #2

 

Kelly and I had to keep these guys from getting too crazy at times!

Me and my "I-love-me-some-wine" sister

All the girls!

Next up:  Day 3 -- Wedding Day!

Off to Cabo -- Day 1

Well, after nearly a week back at home, I guess it's about time to update with our pictures.  We're so grateful of everyone who was able to make the trip with us -- we had an absolutely wonderful time and it meant a lot to us that you were able to be there with us.

Day 1 -- Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Oh the joys of traveling!  Of course I was excited to get there...but I was not excited to have to wait practically half a day in order to actually get there -- especially carrying a big dress awkwardly over my head so it wouldn't drag or fall off the hanger.  That was fun!  

Once we got to our resort (with very little problems), we met up with Mark, Nicole, and Morgan who had been there since Saturday and we got our first free drink!  Troy and I made welcome bags for everyone with a few fun vacation things in it, that we wanted to give them before we hit the pool!  Oh so nice to have a swim up bar to just float over to whenever you wanted a drink...

(Part of the view from our room)

(Hanging out at the swim-up pool bar!)

After some time in the pool, we ate dinner at "El Patio", the fabulous buffet.  We went to our room and had a few nice surprises -- the maids at the resort provide turn-down service with information for the next day, a flower, and some chocolates.  We also got petit fours each night as part of our wedding package.  How nice!

Coming up:  Day 2