Your honeymoon should be something you treasure and look back on fondly. A time where you get to spend time alone with the one you love and celebrate your new life together. Something you remember forever.
I will always remember our honeymoon, but not because of all those reasons.
Half way to our destination we stopped to eat a hearty breakfast at a restaurant that I shall keep nameless. Our problems started an hour or so before we got to our hotel room. We had chosen to go to the Smokey Mountains for our romantic getaway, and like we had done when visiting the area with our families, we stopped at a few of the shops in Pigeon Forge before continuing up the mountain. That’s when I first realized my new husband wasn’t feeling so hot.
I offered him some anti-acid medicine I had packed, figuring everything would be fine in an hour or so.
If only that were the case.
We checked into our suite, admired the hot tub and sat our bags down. The next few hours were spent with the man of my dreams in the bathroom and me running back and forth to the hotel office to ask for spare towels, extra soap, and tea bags to make hot tea (with the futile hope it would settle his stomach).
That night I slept on the floor in the suite’s other room, covered by a bath towel and listening for signs that my new husband was again visiting the porcelain god. We had vowed to love and honor one another “For better or worse, in sickness and health…”, and those vows were being tested that first night of our honeymoon. I said a silent prayer that he would feel better in the morning and prepared myself to drive us home should I need to come dawn.
And THAT is what I remember about our honeymoon. Food poisoning, you are a wicked creature.
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Maggie S says
Aww. Pigeon Forge is a nice place to spend a few days. I hope things took a turn for the better. By God’s grace, my husband hasn’t been sick very many times. Now I am worried about big breakfasts in Pigeon Forge.
admin says
I love Smokey Mts. and Pigeon Forge. Fortunately he felt well enough we were able to get out a little on day 3 of our vacation, although he really didn’t feel 100 percent for several days after that… Rest easy, the breakfast was eaten before we got to Pigeon Forge, it just started hitting him then. Maybe I need to clarify that better…
Kristen says
My honeymoon has a story about several visits to the porcelain god too, unfortunately. A few days in, I woke up feeling dizzy, like I couldn’t move because every bone in my body ached and I had a fever with the chills. A few minutes later, I was on the tile floor of our very posh resort in Jamaica. Thank goodness we “did it up” for our honeymoon because I ended up spending a good 36 hours in the bathroom. I ended up seeing the doctor at the resort and they told me that I had all of the symptoms of the flu (we were married in the winter…prime time to pick up a bug on the airplane). Although, since I was on my honeymoon, the doctor said we couldn’t tell people I had the plain ol’ flu. He told me to say I had the “island flu”. Now whenever someone I know has the flu, I think back to that and it makes me laugh.
admin says
Sorry to hear the flu hit you – “island flu” does make it sound better… lol. Were you able to enjoy any of your honeymoon?
JDaniel4's Mom says
I hope it got better. This sounds like a rough start.
admin says
It did get a little better, although he was under the weather for most of the trip, we did get out to see the aquarium in Gatlinburg and did a few short hiking trails. We went back a few years later and THAT was much better!
shari lynne @ Faith Filled Food For Moms and Grandmothers says
Awww what a bummer..but what a good wife you are.
OneMommy says
Oh, I don’t know how good a wife I am —
God knows I have a lot to work on in that area.
We did get to take another trip there a few years later, without stomach issues getting in the way.