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Honeymoon Day 3 (September 23, 2009): Off to Edinburgh

After such an amazing day in St. Andrews, both Jenn and I got the fever to drive around Scotland. So we woke up with an extra sense of excitement for the upcoming day. We had decided after arriving back at the hotel the night before that we would drive to Edinburgh. We woke up and went down and had a nice breakfast at the hotel. From there we were off to Edinburgh. With our recent triumph of getting to and from St. Andrews with little to no problems we decided that we knew how to drive in Scotland well enough and didn't bother to get directions from the concierge on how to get to Edinburgh.

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Honeymoon Day 2 (September 22, 2009): Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road

One of the toughest things about traveling anywhere overseas is getting used to the different time zone. Jenn and I got very little rest on our first night in Scotland, however when we did get up at around 8:30am we woke up with a fair amount of energy. One of the things that is so different about our Honeymoon in comparison to past Europe trips is that we had little to nothing planned out for this trip except where we were staying. So when we headed down to Breakfast we had to start coming up with some semblance of what we wanted to do on this trip.

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Honeymoon Day 1 (September 20-21, 2009): Travel Days

I write today as the luckiest man in the world, for it was only yesterday that Jenn and I got married. I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am to be starting a life with Jenn. We have been talking about it for years now and to say that we are finally married feels amazing. So now we are on our honeymoon and that to has started off beautifully.

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Just Returned From My Honeymoon

Wow how time flies. I cannot believe that it was been already over a week ago since Jenn and I got married. I will have more posts on the wedding as the pictures/video starts rolling in, but it was a truly beautiful and amazing occasion. It could not have gone more smooth and more wonderful then it really did. So the day after we got married (Sunday September 20th) Jenn and I headed from Los Angeles to Scotland.


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Just Got Back From A Weekend Getaway at Indian Wells

Jenn and I both have been ready for a vacation for quite sometime, and so we took a quick over night trip to Indian Wells about an hour drive from where we now live. This weekend they had the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament or now known the PNB Paribas Tennis Tournament that we were going to try and attend when we were down there. So a little back story for those who don't personally know me or who haven't followed the blog for a while I used to go to Indian Wells every year with Jenn and her parents but that hasn't happened the last few years. Jenn and I have our honeymoon in September but were looking for some quicker trips to help us relax on the weekends while we wait for the big day! So Jenn started searching for places to go and poof she finds a great deal to go Indian Wells for a night so we booked a night in a two bedroom villa at the Hyatt Grand Champions . So we left pretty early on Saturday morning around 9am to try and hit some early matches but when we drove up we saw a big sign saying "Saturday Day Session Sold Out". We have never bought tickets early so we never even though we would have to buy tickets before hand, but needless to say we called and they confirmed they were sold out for the day session. So we went to our hotel only a minute or two from the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens. So we drove there and checked in and confirmed our room and were told they would call us when it was ready.

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