5 Happy Years
My mom is notorious for asking people on their anniversary "How long have you been married? How many were happy?" My response this year was 8...5 years of marriage and 3 years of courtship.
As I wrote in an earlier post, Brad and I always try to go scuba diving for our anniversary. This year was no different as we packed our car, dropped Quinn off in Chicago and we headed down to Turks and Caicos (TCI). Turks and Caicos is a series of 40 islands and cays located in the Atlantic to the east of Cuba and to the north of Haiti. All the dive resources I looked into said it was one of the world's top dive locations so we decided to give it a try.
The very next day after Brad's Half Ironman, we boarded our planes to Providenciales, TCI. We tend to stay very humbly when we travel so that we can spend our money on our diving and on our food and this time was no different. Staying at the Comfort Suites, our clean and spacious, yet minimalistic, hotel room was right across the street from the white sand beaches of Grace Bay.
TCI was GORGEOUS...always a nice breeze to offset the mid to upper-90 temperatures, crystal blue water, and white sand beaches. We spent most of our time though out on the water diving. Taking 2 dives each day, we dove with sharks, the fattest barracuda I've ever seen in my life, rays, spotted moray eels, my new favorite underwater creature sand eels, turtles, and so many fish and beautiful corals. If I had to describe the diving in TCI in one word, it would be blue. So many of the fish were this electric royal blue color...AMAZING!
As part of human nature, we quickly got ourselves onto a schedule that looked something like this:
7:00 Wake Up and Breakfast
8:00-2:00 Out on the water Scuba Diving
2:00 Lunch
3:00-5:00 Naps
6:00 Run the Beach
7:30 Dinner
10:00 Bed
It was wonderful. We were so relaxed the entire time. If we fell off our schedule, so what...in fact, we didn't even realize we had a schedule until we got home.
The best part about our trip was getting to spend time together - ALONE. Now of course we love our son, but every couple needs their alone time. We truly valued our time together and really didn't have time to think about or miss Quinn very much. Brad put it best when he said "I miss him when I think about him." I felt the same way.
A few pictures for your viewing pleasure! ENJOY!
As I wrote in an earlier post, Brad and I always try to go scuba diving for our anniversary. This year was no different as we packed our car, dropped Quinn off in Chicago and we headed down to Turks and Caicos (TCI). Turks and Caicos is a series of 40 islands and cays located in the Atlantic to the east of Cuba and to the north of Haiti. All the dive resources I looked into said it was one of the world's top dive locations so we decided to give it a try.
The very next day after Brad's Half Ironman, we boarded our planes to Providenciales, TCI. We tend to stay very humbly when we travel so that we can spend our money on our diving and on our food and this time was no different. Staying at the Comfort Suites, our clean and spacious, yet minimalistic, hotel room was right across the street from the white sand beaches of Grace Bay.
TCI was GORGEOUS...always a nice breeze to offset the mid to upper-90 temperatures, crystal blue water, and white sand beaches. We spent most of our time though out on the water diving. Taking 2 dives each day, we dove with sharks, the fattest barracuda I've ever seen in my life, rays, spotted moray eels, my new favorite underwater creature sand eels, turtles, and so many fish and beautiful corals. If I had to describe the diving in TCI in one word, it would be blue. So many of the fish were this electric royal blue color...AMAZING!
As part of human nature, we quickly got ourselves onto a schedule that looked something like this:
7:00 Wake Up and Breakfast
8:00-2:00 Out on the water Scuba Diving
2:00 Lunch
3:00-5:00 Naps
6:00 Run the Beach
7:30 Dinner
10:00 Bed
It was wonderful. We were so relaxed the entire time. If we fell off our schedule, so what...in fact, we didn't even realize we had a schedule until we got home.
The best part about our trip was getting to spend time together - ALONE. Now of course we love our son, but every couple needs their alone time. We truly valued our time together and really didn't have time to think about or miss Quinn very much. Brad put it best when he said "I miss him when I think about him." I felt the same way.
A few pictures for your viewing pleasure! ENJOY!
Our hotel beach
Not quite tanned yet!
Turks and Caicos Islands
We dove 8 of these dive sites
Brad ready to take our first dive
TCI from the boat
Just back from our dive (notice the mask marks on our faces?)
Our anniversary dinner at the best restaurant on the island
Happy 5th Anniversary
posted by Maria Pope @ 12:57 PM
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