The Honeymoon

Our honeymoon started off with us staying at the Grand America Hotel in the Executive Suite. Wow! That place was absolutely amazing! I could not believe how fancy it was. Jesse and I arrived there in the limo that we left the reception in, and we were greeted by a man wearing a top hat and tuxedo asking us if he could take our luggage, then we went to the counter to check in and the man at the counter had an awesome English accent and there was a live jazz band playing in the lobby; we felt totally out of place. This was the entrance to the hotel:
Our room was just as amazing, complete with a bathroom made completely of marble!
Here is the entry way:
The sitting room:
And the marble bathroom:
The whole hotel was decorated for Christmas:
Complete with frosted chandeliers:
And gingerbread house displays:
And a huge Christmas tree in the courtyard:

When we checked out, they gave us a complimentary bottle of some fancy French sparkling lemonade, and a free upgrade to an Executive Suite if we come back next December. Staying here was definitely the highlight of the honeymoon. I wish I could say everything else was this nice, but it wasn't.. Our next stop was Zion National Park. We arrived the next evening, and it was rainy and cold. We checked into our cabin, which was one room, big enough for a bed and a table. There was no tv, no cell phone service, and, for the first night, no heat. It was absolutely freezing when we first got there, so I immediately started looking for the heater, which I never found, so I figured there wasn't one. I didn't sleep much that first night because it was so cold, and it was pouring rain the entire night. Luckily, Jesse decided to look again for a heater the next morning, and he found it. That made it a little more bearable, but it was still kinda miserable. We stayed there from Sunday night til Tuesday morning, and the whole time we were there it didn't stop pouring rain, so we were stuck inside a one room cabin with no tv or any connection to the outside world. When Tuesday came, it was still raining, and we were just about to check out when the front counter received the notice to evacuate the entire park because of flooding and rock slides. Luckily we were able to get out of there before many people heard the evacuation notice. We were glad to be gone.
Here's our cabin:
And our view of the mountains (I was so sad that it never cleared up enough for us to actually see them):
Then we headed down to St. George, hoping to see some sun and warm up a bit... too bad it was rainy and cold there too.. We didn't do much because of the weather, and we headed home that Thursday. All in all it was a good honeymoon; definitely different than what we were expecting, but it was so nice to spend a week with just Jesse, even though we didn't really do anything.
Oh, and here's a picture of our view from our hotel in St. George :)