‘Moon Planning by Mr. GT - Rolling the Dice

‘Moon Planning by Mr. GT - Rolling the Dice

September 10th, 2008 @ 11:26 am by Mrs. Green Tea

Mr. Green Tea, here again filling in for Mrs. GT! Due to the enormous amount of energy that my beautiful bride spent planning our wedding, the task of planning our honeymoon fell solely on me. I was given free reign to plan any trip that I wanted (within our budget, of course). Some guys would have loved the opportunity to choose a honeymoon location. This groom knew better. You see, the GT’s don’t do anything half-heartedly, and I knew that this trip had to be great. What a responsibility! I kept asking her opinion on locations and all that I got in return was, “I trust you.”

So, with the weight of her trust on my shoulders, I set out to find the perfect location. My job was made a little easier once I filled in some criteria. It was a process of elimination, and my first choice was Tahiti.

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Unfortunately, Tahiti was eliminated due the fact that it was expensive (even though I kept trying to figure out a way to make it work).

We had wanted to go to Italy for a long time, so that was my number two option.

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The only problem with that was the tremendous amount of planning that would have needed to go into such a trip. I knew that Mrs. GT would want to see everything there was to see in Italy, and if we missed something due to my lack of planning… well, let’s just say that I didn’t want her to lose her trust in me so soon after being married.

With ideal honeymoon location #1 and #2 out, I had to start over. What was it that I wanted us to get out of this trip? It had to be somewhere warm (Mrs. GT gets cold at 85 degrees). It had to be somewhere that had a lot of activities, because we are not the kind of people to just lie around at the beach. At that point in my search, I really started to get stressed out about what we were going to do. All that I could think of was that I wanted to relax and I didn’t want to plan our trip anymore. Where could we go to relax without a lot of pre-planning, but would still be able to see everything?

At that point, I decided that a cruise was the way to go. Even the word ‘cruise’ sounds relaxing. While the thought of being trapped on a boat didn’t exactly appeal to me, it did fit within my criteria, and it was the only thing that I could think of. I didn’t want the cruise to be too long, so narrowing it down to where we were going to go was really easy. We were off to the Bahamas on a four day adventure!

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