Honeymoon Recaps - Our Hotel

Since we are waiting for the pro pics of the wedding, I figure I'll start backwards and do recaps of our honeymoon while we are waiting. As you may recall, Mr. Milk and I were super excited about our trip to the Maldives. We had wanted to go to the Maldives ever since we had seen a brochure of a hotel at a wedding show I attended back in early 2009. The photos were just magnificent. And let me tell you, the real thing does not disappoint!!

I don't think I have been to a more beautiful place in my life! The Maldives consists of about 1000 little islands spread along the Indian Ocean. Typically, each little island is a resort of its own. With nothing else there. And I mean nothing. It's just the hotel, restaurants of the hotel, the beach, sand, sun, and tourists. There are no roads, no cars, no signs, nothing. If you want to get away and relax then this is the place to be! Maldivians rely mainly of tourism for their income and thus treat tourists with a whole lot of respect.  Mr. Milk and I are still amazed by the quality of service we received there! We would highly highly recommend a trip there! 

Anyway, we arrived early in the morning after a red-eye flight, that actually wasn't too bad. We were upgraded to business class for the first leg of our trip, and since we were flying with Emirates, this was definitely an experience. And to start it all off right, we ordered a champagne cocktail :) Unfortunately the few pictures I took of the flight are on Mr. Milk's phone. 

When we arrived in Male, the capital city/island of the Maldives, we were greeted by hotel staff who helped us with our luggage and escorted us to the speedboat that would take us to our hotel. Once on the boat we were given cold towels and drinks and we were off to the Velassaru. 

The island was tiny! It took us about 15 mins to walk around it at a leisurely pace! The first night both Mr. Milk and I were thinking "what will we do here for a week! There's nothing!" It took us about a day to get over that and then we didn't want to leave! 

This was the lobby of the hotel. What do you notice? NO WALLS!!

The entrance to the lobby area. That's the spa in the distance

The pool area. I love infinity pools. As you swam all you saw was the ocean. 

The jetty where our boat docked to let us onto the island. We were greeted by the hotel staff and offered a non-alcoholic mojito! Delish!

The lobby at night. As you can see, the floor is covered in sand! Mr. Milk and I spent the entire week either barefoot or in flip-flops.

And this was our beach villa! Room 201. Love it!

Our bed on arrival

The rest of the room 

And the best part? The outdoor bathroom! We were in love with this idea! 

A close up of the outdoor shower. The resort consists of 127 villas and there is nothing taller than that so no one could peer into your bathroom. 

Our porch and private garden

Our own private loungers! What a view!

Over water bungalows to the right of us and a small bar called Chill which was packed at sunset!

Our view on the left. This was definitely my idea of a relaxing holiday!

Bacheloretter Party Recap!

I had an awesome time at my bachelorette party! It was so much more than I could have asked for and the ladies did an amazing job planning it all! There were a few bumps along the way, but nothing that got in the way of us having a blast!

As you may recall, we rented a villa at the same resort as we are getting married, so all the girls could be together and just hang out. Here's what our villa looked like...

Our pool. But we ended up not being able to use it cause it wasn't clean when we got there. We complained and they told us someone would come the next day. When they did, they dumped so many chemicals that we couldn't use the pool. Ironically, the pool water never cleaned up. We called the resort office and complained and they gave us a day pass to all the hotel facilities. We ended up using the hotel pool for the entire second day. 

The vila from the back. It was a really nice 3 bedroom place

We were right on the golf course :)

Friday night we basically decided to stay in. Most of the girls were working and so we arrived at different times. We all brought stuff from home and had dinner at the villa. 

We lit lanterns around the pool

And the girls brought me a cake decked with mini men's parts and sparklers :)

Here's me and my maid of honor

With my gifts. Lots of men's parts items: playing cards, straws, "jack in the box", and a bunch of sexy undies to go with it all

We drank, ate, laughed, drank some more, and decided that the next day would be a lazy day spent by the pool. 

Who could really complain about our own pool being dirty when this was our alternative! 

Lounging around in the sun, reading, chatting, and sipping cocktails! Aaa this is the life!

In the evening we had dinner reservations at an italian restaurant and we were supposed to be there at 8.30. We had fun getting ready all together. Reminded me of being in high school. 

With my maid of honor and sister

Having a cocktail before we go out to dinner, or so I thought. I was a delay tactic on the girls part for what was to come...

My sister and cousin (both in the bridal party)

Again, clueless me thinking that they just want to take pics. What they were actually delaying for was...

The stripper!! They had sat me down just before he knocked on the door and started feeding me some very touching BS about how much they loved me, and that they went to some acquaintance of theirs and got a cd made of music he wrote for me and blah blah blah. At some point there was a knock on the door and I got o open, only to find a guy standing there with a police hat, sunglasses (it was 8.30 at night mind you), and t-shirt that said police on it. Not a very convincing police outfit so I was on to them right away! He said something about a noise complaint and then the music started (yes the cd that they had music written for me was actually the strippers music). Male strippers are hard to come by in Cyprus (unlike female ones) and so I thought the chances of having one were very very slim. It was a blast. He danced with all the girls and then sat down and had a drink with us at the end. 

We finally made it to dinner (the girls had called and changed the reservation without my knowledge). 

And then we went clubbing! As you might notice I am wearing a different dress in this pic. Thats because my colorful one in the other pics somehow managed to get a huge rip all the way down the back seam! Luckily there was something else to change into and we went back to the house after dinner!

The next day (Sunday) was a spa day. Most of us didn't sleep before 4am and we had to get up at 10am for check out. But the spa has a lovely pool so we went there early and used their facilities. Unfortunately there aren't many pics of the spa as none of us were carrying our cameras with us in our robes. 

Me outside the spa

The spa pool

Some of us in the pool

Last picture of the weekend. We placed my camera on a little ledge across the entrance of the spa and set it to automatically take 3 pics. As we are waiting there, posing for the pic, my maid of honor blurts out "imagine how stupid we look to someone passing by who can't see the camera." We all thought it was hilarious, and so were the 3 pictures we took!

I really couldn't have asked for a better group of friends to have my bachelorette party with! I had a fantastic time the entire weekend!

Hi Again!

Wow! I can't believe it's been a month since I lasted posted! I think thats the longest period I have been away from the blogs! I know I have missed a ton of what has been going on with you guys. Some of you are married by now too! I will do my best to catch up on your blogs, promise!


So what has been going on with us... Well we had a fabulous wedding, of course with some glitches, we enjoyed spending time with our North American friends, and we had a fantastic honeymoon in the Maldives! We have been back a couple of weeks now and Mr. Milk is very busy with work, while I have been trying to secure a job with one of the universities here. Our apartment is finally starting to feel like a home and we are even thinking of having a house-warming party in the next few weeks. All thats left to come is our bed because of some miscommunication between us, the store, and the catalogue (will explain fully) but we are hoping to have that soon as well. 


We are still waiting for our pro pics so will start recaps once we get those. We got our video of the wedding and boy are we both glad we decided to get a videographer! For all of you thinking of cutting that out like we were, think again! I've seen the whole 3-4 hours of our wedding about five times till now and I can't get enough of it! The more I watch it the more I want to relive our wedding day all over again! For us the video became even more important for Mr. Milk's mom. She lost her mother 5 days before our wedding and even though she was a great sport and looked like she had a great time at the wedding, she didn't remember much and felt like she had a mask on the whole time. When she watched the dvd with us the other day, she became teary eyed several times and at the end told us that she only just realized that we got married!


Anyway, I think I will start with recaps from my bachelorette party since I never covered those, and then we'll see where we are as far as pro pics go. In the meantime, here are a few pics friends took of our day...

Mr. Milk waiting for me at the Church

During our ceremony

MARRIED

With our parents

Outside the church

Cake cutting

Cake feeding! 

Toasting our guests

My beautiful centerpieces

Mr. Milk's surprise :) (more to come)

Paaaartttyyyyyy