We set our alarms for 6:45 a.m. That's right... that early! We quickly got dressed and called a cab... or taxi, as they say in Salem. We somehow managed to fit every single piece of dirty clothes into my suitcase and left the clean clothes in Jason's. I was amazed how giant my suitcase quickly became... it continually toppled over onto our way down to the taxi. We were running a bit late--being 7 in the morning! Luckily our taxi driver had to "go to the can." This helped us, since we had to check out of the hotel still. The same, raspy-voiced man who checked us into the hotel was the one who checked us out. He was very pleasant and had been working all week... not quite sure he ever leaves that place... he works so much. To the front desk clerks, we had become known as the "honeymoon couple." Every time we passed by the front desk they'd ask how the vacation was going and occasionally they would tell random strangers that we were on our honeymoon... they seemed very excited for us :^)
Anyway... we said goodbye and met our taxi driver. He was a very jolly man with three kids, one now living in GA. He asked how we liked Salem, and we told him it was awesome. I also mentioned how it looked like people from Salem, however, did not like it as much as tourists. He paused, then finally said "yeah, no." He told us he was going to lie, but then changed his mind and decided to be honest. Too much traffic, tourists, and trouble.
After we said goodbye to our taxi drive, we headed for the airport. Coming from the Atlanta airport into Logan is completely different... Atlanta needs a train because it's so big. Logan, however, could fit inside a shoe box. Very different. We quickly went through security and made it safely onto our seats. I feel asleep on the way home while Jason did a crossword puzzle. Our flight attendants were extremely rude. They basically yelled at a passenger for trying to go to the bathroom. She looked scared to try again... Jerkfaces.
We finally landed and Jamie picked us up from the airport. It was good to see him. We unloaded our stuff at our apartment and said hi to the kitties... missed our cats so much!! Jamie took really good care of them and our place. We both are super thankful for him! After having a really amazing lunch with Jamie at the Tavern, we headed to Newnan. We accidentally crashed a baby shower at my mom's house... oops. Chrissy didn't seem to mind. I got to see some old friends and say hi to family. Jason and I gave my mom, dad, and brother gifts. We gave my parents a cast iron spiral candle holder thing... apparently around the 1600s fathers would have a candle holder like that one on their mantel. Because it was a spiral the candle could be moved up or down. Father's would use this candle to indicate if he wanted his daughter's suitor to leave (because he didn't like him) or stay longer. We thought this an appropriate gift, given that we just got married... they can keep it at the top cause Jason's not going anywhere :^)
After saying hi to family and telling fun stories of Salem, we finally headed home. Real life immediately began. We had no clean clothes and needed to buy food for the week. Luckily my amazing brother baked us tons of stuff and left us lots of food! He's amazing. We then watched the movie "the Raven." Very boring movie... don't recommend it.
Now, real life with Jason. We're both too weird for us to "go back to normal." Back to our crazy, weird, and very fun life together. I'm very thankful for such a weird and crazy individual around :^)
Blogs from here on out will not be this long or every day... I promise.
End of honeymoon.
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