Emily, WHO?

Soooo...I admit, I've been a naughty naughty Sea sister. I'm confessing to all of you (if there are any of you still checking this blog) that I have been quite absent lately. There, it's done, I'm going to go on now that I've gotten that off my chest and tell you EVERYTHING that we've been up to during this hiatus. So, not sure where I left off..I created my "happy place" in the house for Sea Sisters to thrive...had a "welcome home party" that evening for Benny coming back to Nashville from his summer law internship and woke up the next morning for our honeymoon departure.

Wanted to give everyone a little bit of advice that I learned from my honeymoon. Before such advice...I'll give you some background on where we went/what we did.

Sooo...being that Ben had never been out of the country and I have graciously (by mother dearest) had the opportunity to see lots of wondrous places, I told him to pick ANY place in the world he would like to go, and I will pack my bag and jump on the plane with him. Well, once we started searching, we came up with the idea to do an AWESOME California wine trip "Emily and Ben" style rather than a European trip. (Our thoughts are...let's do Europe once we have the means to do it BIG hehe, and do Cali BIG now since we can)

So we wake up at 3:00 a.m. to catch our flight to San Fran and i hear some funny gargling/bubbling noises. What is it , you ask.... the toilet overflowing! Come to find out...the main water line from the house to the city is broken and therefore caused all water sources in the house to overflow!! YIKES!! So, we get to San Fran and get to the car rental line (2 hours later and making friends with everyone around me :) we get to the counter. (VICTORY!!!) So, we start going through the paper work and find out since we have not gotten a credit card yet (on our new marriage to do list) we can not get the following...

and must settle for the following... (Yeahhh... Were ballin!!!)

So, what are the lessons thus far:

(1.) Get a Credit Card! - aparently you need this as a grown up

(2.) Be ready for your car rental bill to double if your under 25!!! (Warning: They will not tell you this in the fine print...not until your paying will THIS come up.) and

(3) I don't have a three, but felt like it needed a three...I guess...a third lesson could be to make friends in line b/c it makes your life and line wait happier :)

So, other than our car trouble, I have NO complaints! The truth is...honeymoons are wonderful and I must admit...I ate and drank and ate and drank and ate and drank some more... I swear I think I gained 10 pounds!!!

Speaking of the eating and drinking...gotta tell you one more thing about our amazing wine tour visits...

So, Ben scheduled all of the tours and such, as he does best...and I did what I do best...used my resources to get some seriously cool things on our calender. What cool thing in particular...we went to Phelps Winery as a guset of Allie Phelps (that's right, the Phelps daughter!) Seriously cool way to check out a winery! We felt so special! The views from their winery are ABSOLUTELY amazing! (Pics shown below) This has got to be a MUST SEE if you ever go to the area! http://www.jpvwines.com/


The Views... The Flowers, The WINE...OH MY!!!

Before we left Cali we hit up a whale tour in Monteray. The whales were so close (we could have TOUCHED them) Warning: When they blow from their spouts it smells like dead fish, seems like an obvious thought now, but it about kills you when you first smell that stuff!

Next blog post on the list...(I'm serious I'm going to update y'all on everything since my last post!)....back home in Nashville, married, honeymooned out, and ready to inform all on what I've been busy doing for Sea Sisters!!

As the whales say it below... "BYE for now....Will post again soon!