Mrs. Trail Mix New York

Age and Occupation: 26 PE Teacher

Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27 MBA Student

Engagement Date: March 2009

Wedding Date: June 2010

Venue: Tannery Pond at the Darrow School

About Me: I'm a country girl who somehow found herself living in the Big Apple and loving every minute of it. I'm planning a rustic country-chic marriage in my hometown in upstate New York and it's going to be a Party with a capital P. White wine flea markets and running keep me happy and my friends family and fiance are my world. I'm a little bit crafty a little bit crazy except mostly just crazy in love.

I last left off our honeymoon recaps with a general description of our time in Los Roques Parque Nacional in Venezuela. To sum up the last two posts? Total awesomeness.

And since I ve realized that writing detailed recaps are not truly my strong fit in the blogging department Imma let the pictures do most of the talking and show off some of the cooler things we saw/did during our 5 days in Los Roques.

First off it was fish central. Bone fish barracudas squirrel fish and parrot fish to name a few abound. (Also lest you think I am a dorky fish-freak who knows all these names and species let me assure you I am not. It s Mr Trail Mix who is supplying me with all these names. He s the fish-freak!)

Here s a shot I got of a bugle fish we found while traversing the shallow waters of one of the islands&

We also found many different types of crustaceans including starfish sand dollars sea urchins crabs and many many various sea shells. One of our favorite activities that kept us entertained for hours (because we re five years old) was finding large rocks underwater to overturn and see what was underneath.

Check it out&

They were not exactly your typical-looking starfish but mad cool nonetheless!

A different type of starfish&

Ooooooh lookie at all those starfishies. Run fishies run! Good sample of why turning through rocks was so fun!

And yet another variety of starfish. This one was pretty! And please note all the hands shown in these photos are Mr Trail Mix s. I was way way love well chicken to pick one of those suckers up.

One day we went kayaking round the islands to see what we could see.

Better not step on one of these monster sea urchins. Ouch!

During our kayaking adventures (for the record those suckers are not as easy to maneuver as they look) we happened upon a little coast bar on one of the islands. The cost for four cans of Solera beer (a Venezuelan specialty) and one platter of fruta di mar? A whopping $12 if you do the conversion from bolivares (the currency of Ven.) to dollars. And I m really not exaggerating when I say it was the best meal we had during our entire trip!

Fresh mussels clams shrimp and various other seafood sundries over pasta. God it was good&

We recreated Lady and The Tramp by splitting that plate of pasta and slurped up every last snap of seafood goodness.

We also took a day to snorkel with the sea turtles that live and nest in the area. With this in mind I now present to you all the dorkiest picture of me ever taken&

Look closely do you see what takes this photo to a new level of silliness? That would be my socks. Hey it helps prevents blisters from the flippers but I serene felt stupid. And the t-shirt was since my poor sunburned skin could just not receive another moment of sun exposure.

As you can see we did purchase an underwater camera but the thing had clearly been sitting in the souvenir shop since about 1995 because when we developed the photos upon our return they were pretty much all blank due to sun exposure of the film. Sadness (and a waste of 20 bucks!) So I have no photos to show you all of the sea turtles but trust me they were frickin awesome.

We also saw a sting ray at the end of our day of snorkeling right on the shore line while we were taking a break. I m quite glad it happened with about only an hour left of beach time because neither one of us wanted to go back in the water behind that. For those that don t understand sting rays can really really hurt ya if you step on one and it was not something we wanted to experience on our honeymoon!

And because I just can t help myself and am apparently incapable of writing a honeymoon post without a sunset photo or two (or twelve) here s a series from our last night in Los Roques (tear).

Our stay in Los Roques was really perfect. It was full of delicious food lots of relaxing beach time with cool activities interspersed and we didn t have to worry about or plan a thing as our posada took concern of everything. Los Roques is an awesome honeymoon destination and I highly recommend it for a couple looking to rest out of the all-inclusive Caribbean resort mold!

Up next we fly in an even smaller plane (betcha didn t think that was possible after our first one right?) hike behind a waterfall and sleep in the jungle in a hammock. Oh yes the chill part of our honeymoon was done and it was time for some adventures!

Lindsy

(message) 228 posts Helper bee

Looks like you had a lot of fun!

The seastars are called Brittlestars.

Mrs. Buttons

(message) 3874 posts Honey bee

Oh my goodness those little starfish dudes are so cool!

Haha I know how you feel with the stingray fear. They are all over the place on the beaches around here&you just have to make sure you do the stingray shuffle

jordynrose

(message) 3508 posts Sugar bee

Beautiful! You guys sure got to see a lot of sea life.

mebless

(message) 242 posts Helper bee

Love the pics! Those starfish are cRaZy cool! And your pics of kayaking are making me want to go so bad!!! (i love it!)

mak418

(message) 272 posts Helper bee

Oh how cool! And if you had a hankering to go kayaking again one-person kayaks are much easier to maneuver than the tandems. (And traditional ones are easier in my opinion than the sit on tops you had.) Can you tell Im a kayaking freak?

futurediplomatswife

(message) 475 posts Helper bee

Wow. Just WOW! Cant wait to hear about the jungle adventures. This has to be the coolest honeymoon trip EVER.

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Mrs. Trail Mix New York

Age and Occupation: 26 PE Teacher

Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27 MBA Student

Engagement Date: March 2009

Wedding Date: June 2010

Venue: Tannery Pond at the Darrow School

About Me: I'm a country girl who somehow found herself living in the Big Apple and loving every minute of it. I'm planning a rustic country-chic wedding in my hometown in upstate New York and it's going to be a Party with a capital P. White wine flea markets and running keep me happy and my friends family and fiance are my world. I'm a little bit crafty a little bit crazy but mostly just crazy in love.