Maldives!

 

OK, so you know how you always see those pictures of the amazingly too good to be true turquoise water with totally isolated white sand beaches?  And nowhere you visit seems to actually look like that?  Well...we FOUND that place!  The Maldives are made up of 1,190 small islands in the Indian Ocean off the South West coast of India.  100 of the islands have resorts on them, 200 have people, and the other 890 are still untouched.  Honestly?  The most beautiful place I have ever been.  Hands down. 

Augusto and I went to celebrate our 10 1/2 year anniversary (or our 10 year anniversary 6 months late) - and a BIG thanks to Uncle French Fry for watching the chicken littles! 

You fly into Male, and the airport is literally a single runway flanked on either side by marina!  Our resort was on the island of Reethi Rah - a 1 hour boat ride from the airport.  All the resorts have their own boats, lined up to whisk you off...

The resort is the only thing on the island, which is about 2km long and 1km wide.  It was all tropical jungle and you took narrow sand paths to get around.  We have always wanted to try the "over the water villa"...

You walked out our sliding doors onto the deck - you could lounge on the nets and check out the sea life below!

Or you could jump off the deck and paddle over to the beach:

Or, you could just hang out on deck...my preferred option....

I did float for a bit...

But then we saw......SHARK!!!!!!!!!!!  He looked super big and menacing in person.  I swear. Like Jaws.

After that, I stayed safely on deck and became the official Mai Tai drinker.  Self Appointed.  Mama didn't raise no fools.

Of course, this didn't stop AquaMan:

He made a friend!  This giant ray hung out all night sitting right under Augusto as he made conference calls.  Yes, the good people of BlackBerry provide service to paradise.

View from the entry of the restaurant:



Dinner with a view:

And  after 10 1/2 years,  2 kids, 3 dogs and 3 cats (two of which are certifiably insane), 7 different house moves (6 of which he managed to be on business trips), and two (almost three) countries later - my husband is still my handsome Prince.  He slays all the dragons and makes my dreams come true.  I'm a lucky girl. 

 And the countdown to California stands at 18 days....