Travel Tuesdays: Thailand

Hey, remember how I blogged a little teaser about the honeymoon that Jon and I started discussing at the 11th hour?  Well, it's happening!  We're not going to the cottage in Ireland, as we had thought; instead, we'll be spending a quiet three days on the coast in Norfolk, a two hour drive from Jon's parents' house, and then a last blowout night in London on my birthday before I fly back to DC.

It's funny, because when I think of a honeymoon I imagine something straight out of a Sandals advertisement.  This will be the polar opposite of that, and it will be exactly what we'll need as a pause between our transatlantic engagement and the first few long-distance months of our marriage.  We'll have a few days to just be together, to recharge after our wedding and before dealing with Jon's visa.

We will get an exotic beach holiday over Christmas - more on that down the road - but it won't actually be our first.  Jon's family went to Thailand in the summer of 2009, and I was able to take time off from nannying and writing my dissertation to join them for a week of sailing around the islands in the Gulf of Thailand.  We'd been dating for nine months at that point, I was comfortable around his parents and sister, and we'd shared a vacation to Istanbul the April before - things were serious and I was confident in our relationship, but we knew we'd soon be facing our first long-distance period, so it was definitely a special trip.

I didn't blog back then, so I don't think you've seen any of these photos... enjoy, dear readers!

linking up with Found Love, Now What? for Travel Tuesday