Belated Honeymoon

Tiffany and I went on our belated honeymoon a few weeks ago and it was terrific! With our initial plans of going to Mexico being canceled due to the Swine Flu "H1N1" Virus, we decided to checkout a place both of us have never been, Montana! The weather was beautiful and the scenery was fantastic.


The trip started out with a bit of embarassment. When checking our luggage, the Southwest employee asked us several times why we were going to Spokane and we finally told her that it was our belated honeymoon. She congratulated us and told us she would try to have champagne ready for us on the flight. We laughed and told her that would be great expecting nothing of it. Later as we were standing in line to board the plane, the ramp agent made an announcement over the loudspeaker, "folks we have some very special passengers riding with us today, would Mr. and Mrs. Finnegan please come on down to the gate please!" We both don't like the spotlight, but we weren't going to go unnoticed so we went ahead and walked down to the agent. She let us board the flight early, red faces and all. Once onboard, the flight attendant asked for us over the loudspeaker and proceeded down the aisle with a bottle of Champagne! It was a very nice gesture from Southwest and a great way to start the trip.



After landing in Spokane, we picked up our rental car and met up with Tiffany's cousin and husband, Bri and Max. Max is active duty Air Force and stationed nearby. They hosted us for the night and we headed out on our 5 hour drive to Glacier National Park. At Glacier, we went white water rafting, horseback riding, and even skydiving. Skydiving was a blast, but we both agreed that we wouldn't be doing a tandem jump again anytime soon. The week flew by and we were on our way back to Virginia. I gave my two weeks notice a short two weeeks after our trip and now we are headed back up to DC to start our new jobs. We both are both very excited. We'll be subleasing for the next month or so until we can move back into the condo. Hopefully, over the next year, we will be able to make it back out to the west coast, especially now that I have a job where you get a reasonable amount of vacation days. Check out the photos on Picasa. There are about 4 albums so after clicking on the link you can go back to the albums page and check out the others. A big thanks to Don and Judy for the timeshare and to Richard and Ellen for helping with flights!

Glacier National Park