The Honeymoon

Aaahhh Jamaica!
It feels like it was forever since we were there! Now we are back to our busy lives with no time to just sit and watch the sunset and feel the island breeze...
We stayed at my dream resort - The Rockhouse. It seriously looks like the pictures on their website. The staff was so friendly and nice, the food was great and it is in a somewhat remote location and each villa is private, so you feel as if you have your own little slice of heaven.

After waking up at 4am to catch our flight, we were pretty tired when we landed in Negril. Garfield (our driver) came and picked us up and took us to the resort. Here's Dereck all ready to relax.
We got in the little mini-bus and we were expecting to hear the reggae pumpin' but instead he had this crazy mix of American oldies blasting! This crazy Chubby Checker remix.
Anyway, it was a beautiful relaxing drive through the crazy Jamaican roads - well somewhat relaxing considering the 4 heart failures I almost had. The driving seemed like utter chaos, but in fact everyone seemed accustomed to the chaos, so it was somewhat controlled chaos if that makes sense. Not only were people driving on the "wrong" side of the road, but cars would just turn and cut right in front of you. I was grateful for Garfield's skills by the time we got there.The hour long drive was worth it because here was a picture of the entrance to our villa.
This is the walkway to the restaurant.

We show up at the hotel and were starving, so we ate at the restaurant at the hotel. It was an open air restaurant that overlooked the water. So peaceful.
Basically the rest of our time we only did a few things - relax, sleep, swim, eat.
Pretty much all you need for survival.

Here is our private swimming area at our villa. This picture doesn't really do it justice because you would walk down the stairs and since the villas were on a cliff, you have this little area underneath that you could swim and feel like you were in the middle of the salty ocean.

This is where we would sit every evening and watch the beautiful sunsets. It was so fun being "the honeymoon couple". Everyone was so nice to us! We really felt like we got the royal treatment everywhere we went. I would recommend the resort to anyone -- it was amazing.

Here are a few more resort pictures. I look at these pictures and it's hard to imagine we were actually there!

I couldn't have asked for a more wonderful, unique honeymoon. It was private, serene and perfect. Thanks D for a marvelous time!

P.S. Dereck took some great pictures with his camera, but we couldn't get them to upload, so we are stuck with only mine...