Weekend in West Bend

Last weekend, Bryson and I went to West Bend, Wisconsin to visit some of my family from my mom's side of the family.  My Uncle Wally, Aunt Debbie and Cousins Sara, Hannah and Emma live in West Bend so we went on up to spend some time with them. :)   My parents also made the trip from Merrill to West Bend so we could all spend some time together.

Bryson picked me up from work at 2:00 on Friday afternoon and off to West Bend we went.  It took about 3 hours to get there (short trip compared to going to my parents house in Merrill.)  And it was a nice change of scenery.  We went up through Milwaukee (a part of Wisconsin that Bryson has never been through and that I haven't been in for a long time).

We got to West Bend around 5 on Friday evening and my parents arrived shortly after.  On Friday we spent the night just hanging out and talking with my family and at about 10:00 my cousin Sara, Bryson and I decided we were bored so we went out and Sara gave us the tour of the town.

Saturday morning we woke up and had a huge breakfast of pancakes, bacon, sausage and all of the fixings.  It was wonderful :) Then we all got ready and my mom, Aunt Debbie, Emma, Hannah and I went shopping at Hobby Lobby (I love me some Hobby Lobby!) and Tuesday Morning.  Then we made a stop at Petco before we headed back to Wally and Debbies house. Bryson, my dad and Sara went to Cabelas to look around.

On Saturday night we went to Wauwatosa and out to dinner at Dave and Busters... We had a BLAST.  It is the equivilant to an adult Chuck-E-Cheese.  It was really fun!  The only thing that wasn't so fun was it took us about 2 hours to get a table.  But we had fun playing games before we got seated.

On Sunday we had a nice breakfast and then headed on home so we could get home in time to watch the Packers vs. Bears game :)

Bryson and I at Dave and Busters :)

Love,

Bryson and Alyssa

Welcome and Honeymoon

Hey everyone!  I made this blog so that family and friends from all over could see what Bryson and I are up to.  I have made a blog before but I didn't keep up with it - so I am hoping this time is different!  We will see!

I figured my first post could be about our Honeymoon in Barbados which we took from November 17-November 24.  :) 

We left from Bryson's Aunt Diane's house at 7:30 a.m. on November 17th and we had a driver take us to O'Hare airport in Chicago.

From Chicago we flew to Miami and then off to Barbados we went!

We landed in Barbados a little after 10 p.m. island time.  (2 hours ahead of CST)  And it was pretty humid and raining. 

We had a driver pick us up and take us to our hotel... he even gave us a tour along the way to our hotel (which was about a 45 minute drive from the airport).  By the time we got to our hotel and settled into our room - it was a little after midnight. It was so beautiful, even at night time... I could hardly wait to wake up the next day and see everything!  When we woke up the next morning - this was the view from our room...

Gorgeous! You can't really see it in this picture but to the right you could see the Caribbean Sea and straight out ahead was one of the pools.

We got ready and headed to breakfast at a restaurant called Horizon's... which is where we ate most of our meals at... It was sooo pretty - right next to a pool and you could see the Sea from it. (despite the birds that flew in and the cats that walked around the island that would come up by you when you were eating... I was the only person in the whole resort that seemed even a little freaked out by the cats...)

From there we got our suits on and decided to hit up the beach!  It was so hot on the beach so we decided we needed some Rum Punches to cool us down ;)

That night we had dinner at Enid's which is a restaurant with local cuisine.... (also where I ate chicken on the bone for the first time in YEARS)

The other few days really kind of blur together so I'm just going to share some pictures that I have and post what they are of :)

This is Bryson and I before going out to dinner one night.

This is the view from the inside of The Reef Restaurant.

The outside of The Reef.

Bryson and I outside an old Sugar Mill that was on the hotel's property.

Bryson and I before going to Oistens... Its a town in Barbados that turns into a huge street party every Friday and Saturday.

Sunset from our room.

Bryson and I before going out to dinner on my birthday!

My first legal drink!

Bryson and I after dinner - they had a band.

Bryson's artistic picture that he is really proud of. :)

Mount Gay Rum Distillery

Caribbean Sea

Bryson and I outside of the second oldest church in Barbados... in front of the Atlantic Ocean. 

 The Atlantic Ocean.  Barbados has the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Caribbean Sea on the other.

Bryson and I hugging the tree of life outside the 2nd oldest church in Barbados...  Those are graves behind us...

Atlantic Ocean in Bathsheba, Barbados.

Bryson and I in Bathsheba, Barbados.

Last night at the resort... Dinner at The Reef.

Dinner at The Reef

Airport in Barbados.

Walking out to our airplane in Barbados.

Thats it!  And if you have made it the far, you are a saint! :)

Bryson & Alyssa