The Moon of Honey

Where do I even begin? We have been in a whirl wind since arriving back in Starkville. Baseball season is about to make it’s official start, and I am back into the swing of work. Now I know all of the pictures on Facebook tell part of the story, BUT since I have not uploaded pictures since 2010 and I all of a sudden decided to upload 407, Facebook kicked me off of its picture section for 2 whole days! I couldn’t tell little stories under the pictures OR turn them the right way up. I’m using this blog to highlight some of our favorite moments.

We’ll start with the landing. We arrived on Monday around 3 p.m.

Never take photos until you are cleared by Customs. I had a gruff island woman poke me and yell at me for snapping a quick pic.

We finally arrived to Ladera around 4 p.m. The place was AMAZING. I won’t lie. I was nervous about getting to this place that looked great in pictures, had an odd living concept, and would ultimately expose us to the elements. It may sound crazy, but it was even more beautiful than the pictures!! You cannot prepare yourself to wake up each morning to rainforest covered mountains, native flowers growing everywhere (I couldn’t help but think of my mom the whole time who would have LOVED all the flowers), and the ocean spread out before you. We like to refer to it as indescribably beautiful.

Our night time view

Ladera from the sea

After the shock of being where we were rubbed off, we did some really fun stuff in St. Lucia. We conquered the Gros Piton. GT laughed at my way of climbing it. My approach was to climb it on all fours. With really short legs and short arms, I had to use as much leverage as possible to get my butt up that mountain! We made it, and we will never do that again.

SBGTTTT (Sally Beth and Glenn Thomas to the top)

VICTORY! (This one is for the Raborns.)

We also went deep sea fishing. It was fun… Until we started riding in circles in 10 foot waves for an ENTIRE hour. I was SO sea sick. I held it in though. I knew that if I barfed, they would make us go back to the main land, meaning that I would cut GT’s most anticipated activity short.

My face is literally green in our photos.

On a happy note, we caught a Wahoo. The skipper cut us a big chunk, and we had it for dinner at the resort. We ate what we caught!

The Wahoo cooked. Sorry I had eaten a little before I took the pic. BG (big girl) moment.

Speaking of what we ate… The food was GREAT. The fruit was perfect and right off of the plantation next door. The seafood was SO fresh. The resort had a lunch special of hamburgers and French fries, so I did not completely die of American food withdrawals (another BG moment). The resort next door was called Hotel de Chocolate. (It was pronounced to sound fancier than how we would say it.) Everything on their food menu was made with some form of cocoa. They farm the cocoa right off of their land. You could smell the cocoa walking up the path to the restaurant. It was a chocolate lovers dream! They used chocolate in so many neat ways! I had the cocoa ravioli. GT had some kind of fish with a cocoa rub. It was definitely a fun place to say that we tried!

Let’s see… Oh the beaches! Since our resort was nestled up in a mountain, we shared the beach with the Jalousie Plantation. We had to take a shuttle to get there, and the beach was really great. Their beaches are black sand beaches because of the volcanoes that formed the island thousands of years ago. The Jalousie Plantation actually imports white sand to the island to make their beach look “normal.” You could see the white mixed in with the darker sand in places, so it almost worked. It was definitely cool to lay out between two gigantic dormant volcanoes.

We did lots of other stuff, but this post is getting too long. If you want to know anything else, just ask.

Sunset Cruise

Maroon Friday in St. Lucia!!!

Sassy Waterfall Pic

The END!

It may take a while to update again. We (I) am currently sorting through gifts, deciding what we have too much/too little of, and working to get it all figured out.

If you played any role in our engagement/wedding/life to get us to this point, we thank you. We were/are blessed to have so many family members and friends support us through our engagement, at the wedding, and for many years to come.

Love, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Thomas McCullough

Wedding Week Madness

It's our Wedding Week!! Only 3 more days!

We are all packed and ready to go to St. Lucia!! GT packed his bags on Sunday (in like 30 minutes). I finally finished packing over Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights.

My bridesmaids got really creative and provided me with an assortment of honeymoon outfits for GT's viewing pleasure ONLY! They asked me to name them all according to something that GT loves. What else could I pick besides baseball players? We have the Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Derek Jeter, Matt Kemp, Marquis Grissom, Juan Pierre (known by the bridesmaids as someone else), and the Ron Polk-- sure to be the least scandalous. Thank you, Kathleen!

Each outfit is strategically concealed in a Ziplock bag with the name written on the outside. I'll let y'all know his favorite player later on!

The Honeymoon!

Now, that we are packed, I CANNOT wait to get down to St. Lucia!! We are staying in Ladera Resort. It is an "open-air" resort nestled in the mountains near the Pitons (really old, really tall volcanoes that formed the island millions of years ago when God told it to do that). Each suite only has 3 walls, which means that our fourth wall is a beautiful view of the ocean and Pitons! Think extremely nice treehouse with your very own plunge pool! It's no secret that I am NOT an outdoorsy kind of girl, but I could not resist the beauty and uniqueness of this location!

We will wake up to this every morning!

example of a Ladera suite

We plan to do some awesome (and completely unlike-me) things while in St. Lucia. We WILL climb one of the Pitons. We even got mountain climbing shoes for Christmas to do this! I've been working on the cardio side of things to get physically ready. Gt, on the other hand.. Not so much.. Ha! Anyways, we want to go deep sea fishing, and if we catch anything, the chef at the resort will cook it! How legit is that?! We want to do a tree-top zip-lining excursion, which I can only imagine is BEAUTIFUL. The resort gives us a tour of some waterfalls and hot springs. There's also a golf course available and of course, shopping and the beach! Other than that, I hope we are SO lazy and care free that we don't know what to do with ourselves!

Until the week of January 22, you probably won't here from us. We'll either be getting rehearsed to get married, getting married, or getting our St. Lucia on.

Love y'all- Sally Beth and GT

Nicknames

Welcome to our blog! We are so pumped that you took the time to stop by. We promise not to bore you too much!

Our first post is dedicated to the title of this blog and gives you a little look into why we never call each other by our real names. If you know us, you understand that we rarely call each other by our birth names. Sally Beth and Glenn Thomas are mouth fulls. This is when our laziness kicked in, and we created an assortment of nicknames for each other. For me, it's Sam, Sammy, Scoob, Rube, and Dude, to name a few. For him, it's Jig, Jiggy, Jiggers, and Jigster. Some of you may just be gagging by now, but we don't care. We enjoy our cuteness (Jiggy would die over that comment).

We'd also like to introduce to you our 7 month old Frenchie, Snoop. He's the best dog in the world. We are extremely proud parents.

More pre-wedding posts may come along. If not, get ready for St. Lucia pics.. Honeymoon style! (whoop whoop!!)