Honeymoon Day 4

Ryan and I before we began our adventure

Wednesday morning we got up to go on our excursion. It was a ton of fun. the views we got to see were amazing. We went to a small market that over looked the harbor of the capital city Castries. We looked around and then we were on our way again. When we got back in the jeep our guide ask us a question were were to think about. The question was...Why are there so many bananas in St. Lucia? Everywhere you looked you could see at least one banana plant. Yes it is a plant not a tree. Also on our adventure we went to the rain forest. It was beautiful and it wasn't raining so we got to hike all through it. At the bottom was a pool of water from the waterfall further up in the Rain forest. where you could swim. So Ryan jumped in and swam for a while, I sat on the edge and watched. Our guide was awesome and gave us so much information about the whole island.

Ryan in the rainforest

Banana plants. They have blue bags over them to protect them from bugs and help them not to ripen so fast.
These are papayas growing on this tree.

Sarah driving through the rain forest.
One of the views. St. Lucia is very hilly!


Wednesday night we went over to the other resort to have dinner at Barefoot by the Sea. It was so good. We sat right at a table that was in the sand and was about 20ft from the ocean. It was gorgeous! Here are some pictures we took while we were over there!

Honeymoon Day 3

Tuesday morning they brought us our honeymooner breakfast in bed. It was great. And a perfect day for it since it was Ryan’s birthday! We had cereal, eggs, omelets, toast, croissants, and bacon. It was so good. We then got on our swimsuits and head to the pool for the day! We laid there all day. We finally went back to the room to take our mid afternoon nap and get ready for dinner. We ate at the Japanese restaurant called Kimonos. We ate with a 3 other couples that were traveling together for fun and they were all so nice. Also there was another newlywed couple from Tennessee that ate with us. Come to find out they were the ones that were below us when we locked ourselves out of our room. We all had a blast together!

Ryan and I outside

The restaurant overlooked the ocean. The picture below you can see the restaurant from the main pool.

Honeymoon Day 2

Our towels that the James, Morris's, and McDaniel's gave us!

Monday we slept in and then went to breakfast at the pavilion. We found us some lounging chairs by the pool and lay out! They had mats you could get to lay out in the pool so Ryan and I did that for half the morning. Then we ate lunch and lay out a little more by the beach. About mid afternoon we walked around the resort getting all our days laid out. We made reservations for dinner, the spa, and our excursions. Then in was off to take a nap for the afternoon. For dinner we got dressed and went to Piton which was a restaurant with Eastern Caribbean cuisine. After dinner Ryan and I played a game of lawn chess. He beat me and he was so excited! Then we walked around the resort and took pictures. When we got back to the room our door would only open about 2 inches. We tried for about 5 minutes to get it open our selves then finally decided to let maintenance handle it. They handled it alright. After the maintenance tried to kick down our door for 5 minutes they decide to just climb onto our balcony and come in through the sliding glass door. He didn’t get a ladder like we would have thought he just stack a chair on top of a table and pulled himself on up there and let us in. Our bathroom door had opened all the way and the front door was pushing on it and not allowing it to open. Needless to say when I finally went to shut the glass doors there was a crowd below wondering if we were being killed. So we told the story from our balcony.

The pool area at dinner time.

Dinner at the Piton

Ryan and I staying looking over the ocean

Here is the big lawn chess board! It was really a lot of fun!

Every night they came by and turned down our bed!

Honeymoon Day 1

We got up at 4:15 to begin our journey to St. Lucia. We got to the airport at 5 ate our breakfast and head to Atlanta. We got off the plane in Atlanta and went straight to the next plane and sat down. We were close to missing our flight. We got to St. Lucia about 2 o’clock all excited that we were close to being at the hotel to walk into the airport to find a customs line a mile long. We had to wait about an hour to get through all the paper work and get our bags. We finally got on the bus to go to the hotel and our driver was sooooo sloooow! We got passed by everyone driving that day. The island is only 27 miles long, and we were going from one end to the other but it took about an hour and fifteen minutes because of the hills and curvy roads they had. There wasn’t a straight road in sight! We finally got to the resort and went to our room and then straight to eat because by this time we hadn’t eaten in 12 hours. We walked around and found a hammock and hung out there for a while and walked on the beach then to the room to go to bed early.

Ryan and I laying by the beach. The waves were really small but just listening was so relaxing.

We are the finally the Green's!!!!

They had hammocks all over the resort. Ryan and I had one right outside our room where we laid at night!

Here is our room. We had towel swans on our bed but we had already taken them down!

Here is the bathroom!

Wedding!

It is wedding day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bridemaid's Luncheon

This morning we had the Bridesmaid's Luncheon. It was a lot of fun of just a bunch of girls talking! We are now on the official count down! I can't believe that we are actually getting married tomorrow.









After the luncheon, Whit, Amy and I went to get our nails done. Now I am waiting to go to the rehearsal and dinner! I still can't believe tomorrow I am getting married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything!

Sorry I have been a horrible blogger lately. I have so much going on and we are getting married in 5 days!!! I can't believe it! In the past few weeks I graduated, came to Little Rock to finish up the planning, went to the Kenny Chesney concert, had a 5 hour long meeting with the wedding coordinators and my mom, went back for an interview, and now I am still mapping out the next few days so I can everything done. Here are some pictures of the past few weeks.









My dad and Tracey took Ryan, Rae-Marie and I to Bordino's for a Graduation Celebration! I never thought I would get my Master's but I am so thankful that I did!










Dr. Mounts was an awesome teacher and I couldn't have done it without her! Thanks so much Dr. Mounts!!!






My soon to be family came to watch me graduate! Thanks for coming!



Kenny!!!


I have only seen Kenny Chesney in concert 9 times! I love him! I can't wait to go buy his new cd that came out today! I know I am a nerd! But I only found it fitting for Ryan to go see Kenny before we got married and he couldn't have come at a better time!!



Ryan, Me, Allison, and Baxter at my dad's before we left for the concert!



For the past 3 concerts I have been lucky enough to be able to go back stage and meet Kenny before the concert. I love every second of it. You might be able to tell from my big cheesy smile! I can't help but cheese-it, even when right before we walked up there Allison told me not to do that! OOPS!!





We were able to go down to the "sandbar" (the area right by the stage) so I was able to get some good pictures. But we had the best seats in the house right on the front row on the side! They were great! Besides the weird people in front of us on the front that were bumping and grinding the entire night! I could have done without that!



Overall, I enjoyed the concert and of course I will be going back every chance I get. Also, for the first time in 6 years Kenny sang "Me and You" which is the song that is being sung at our wedding!!! So of course that made me love Kenny even more! Ohh yeah and when I was backstage I did ask him to come sing at my wedding but he told me couldn't swing that one. Oh well!

This past week!

This past week has been a blur but a good one!

School Updates!
I have now officially past grad school and will graduate on May 9!!! We got engaged on the second day of school in August and here I am two days away from finishing my entire Internship. I can’t believe I survived it! During the M.A.T. I completed a mock Action Research project, several multicultural projects, a week of PD this summer before school, interned in 3rd grade for 9 weeks and completed a Literacy Case study in that class, moved to 1st grade started research for my Action Research project, conducted my Action Research project, taught a two week curriculum unit, moved to Kindergarten and presented my Action Research. And now I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.







Wedding Updates!
Also in this past week Ryan and I got our marriage license, got our passports ready to go, our plane tickets to head out of town, confirmed wedding night hotel reservations, my mom and the wedding coordinators have been to the Country Club to confirm everything. We have finished Pre-marital counseling and will finish Financial Peace University this week. My portrait and wedding programs were ordered this week. Rehearsal dinner invitations have gone out! We are caught up on all the thank you notes! We have picked out the music for the wedding! I have gathered everything we need for that day. Garter, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue! I am going to start packing this week for the honeymoon because I will be heading to Little Rock a week from today for good until after the wedding! I can’t believe that these past nine months have flown by but I think we are ready to get married!




Prayers!
This past weekend one of my good friends, Kyla Marveggio, father passed away after a motorcycle accident in Texas. Please pray for her and her family because they need all the strength they can get.