Wedding on Honeymoon

So this is a first for us, going to a destination wedding with a beachfront ceremony. . The wedding was planned for the evening, so we spent the morning exploring the Clearwater area and playing at the playground of Sand Key county park, and the afternoon swimming with cousins at the pool. I also snuck away to take my turn on a bike, trying out the Pinellas rail/trail system a bit and exploring some residential streets in Dunedin. Douwe was in the pool for several hours, . . he is looking to be much more comfortable with water this pool season, eager to swim on his own with the vest and "muscles." He got to know the other kids, Chloe and Alex and Lily, much better this afternoon while they played in the pool.

My favorite part about the wedding ceremony was a young boy playing all the music: classical guitar.
I wish I had asked him how old he was, he was very talented for his age.

Douwe was coming out of a short nap, and he did not enjoy being in the full sun at that point, but his hat helped him get through it. The island was a very beautiful place to have a wedding ceremony, and the sun and breeze and waves were doing what you would want them to for a wedding, shining, and breezing and lightly crashing.

We had a delicious Caribbean-style dinner back at the pool deck, and my favorite part about the catering set up was the pineapple palm trees with the strawberry and cheese appetizers. The kids were delighted to find out that somebody said "go ahead and swim", so they spent most of the reception time having a blast in the pool while we pigged out on crab cakes and shrimp-on-sugar-cane-skewers and Jerk chicken. Yum. Sunset was gorgeous again. A beautiful setting and perfect weather, we enjoyed this weekend so very much.