Los novios se van a Méjico!

Remember last fall when I ranted about our failed family trip to Florida? How I was so mad the airline changed the flights on us, and so disappointed that it meant the trip was canceled? Well, maybe I was too quick to whine. The credit the airline gave us now means we'll have an actual honeymoon!

We hadn’t really thought about going away after the wedding, but then we remembered we had this credit we needed to use by October. And it suddenly went from being a slightly annoying thing we had to take care of to being a wonderful opportunity!

So we looked at their destinations and packages and chose this cozy resort on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. It’s neither too far nor complicated, everyone we know raves about this region, and the value is apparently outstanding. Neither of us has been to that country, so it’s a new place to discover, and an opportunity to brush up my Spanish (which I hear spoken at work everyday –maybe not so surprising in some places, but here in Montreal a fairly rare thing!)

We will be gone for six days: we’re getting married on the Sunday, will spend the night in Burlington, Vermont (lucky coincidence the venue is right on the border), fly from there early Monday morning, and return home late on Saturday night. Just long enough for us to enjoy it, not so long that we miss our son too much or that it’s too hard on him.

To be honest, this is not really my dream honeymoon. I would have loved to go to an unusual place like maybe an Eastern European city, which is my idea of absolute romanticism. But I can totally see how this tropical, all-inclusive vacation is an ideal setting to relax, pull the plug, and find yourself again as a couple, which is what honeymoons are supposed to be all about. So, I’m very excited about it, about this special, outside-of-real-life situation where I get to spend time with M alone and don’t have to think about whether LP will wake up at an inopportune time catering to someone else’s every need.

LP will stay home with his grandparents. Really, the only negative thing about this whole thing is that we realized our wedding day will unfortunately, inevitably end in a sad way: after dinner we’ll say goodbye to our son for a week, when we never left him for more than a day and a half. Everyone will survive (him by being spoiled, us by lying on a beach drink in hand), but I’m sure every parent will understand this slight uneasy twinge we feel when thinking about this very moment…