Life in the Fast Lane: Coyotes Couple Up: Sleep Deprivation

For our honeymoon Mr. Coyote and I spent ten fabulous days at Couples San Souci, an all-inclusive, couples only resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. We spent a lot of time deciding on the best resort for us and I have to say we really hit the jackpot with Couples. Before I get into all of the fantastic parts, I want to share some things we wish we'd done differently (and they all have to do with our travel arrangements).

I wish we had spent a few days at home before leaving for the honeymoon.

In fact, I wish we had gone back to work and "real life" for a few days and then left for our honeymoon. I know this is completely unorthodox, but just hear me out. We spent almost the entire week before the wedding away from home. Due to adrenaline and nerves I slept about three hours the night of the wedding and maybe another four hours the night after. On Sunday we had breakfast with our friends and family, packed up our things and drove three hours back to Westchester.

Of course, Mr. Coyote realized that he left his sneakers at my parents' house, so we had to go shopping. And then we had to stop at the pet store to get more food for our cat. And then we had to unpack the car and finish packing for the honeymoon. And then... I'm sure you can see where this is going. I managed to sneak in an hour-long nap before our car service arrived at 3 AM to take us to the airport. I really could have used a few extra days at home to get ready for our trip and catch up on some much needed sleep.

I wish we had checked in prior to arriving to the airport.

Because I booked a really cheap trip with a really shady travel site (or because I hadn't slept properly in three days and couldn't figure it out) I was unable to check us in online. When we arrived at the airport we were told that there were no two seats next to each other and that we would have to sit in separate rows.

We explained that we were on our honeymoon and begged the agent to move someone else so we could sit together. There may have been a few tears on my part, but the agent eventually was able to move our seats. It was a super stressful situation to be dealing with at 4 AM and it could have been avoided by checking in online.

Finally, I wish we had planned our arrival at the resort to coincide with check-in time.

This one is kinda weird and maybe only specific to our situation, but we arrived at our resort around 11 AM - which is apparently the absolute worst time to show up. We had been awake for almost 30 hours straight and had nowhere to sleep and nowhere to eat (at this particular resort, breakfast ended at 11 and lunch started at noon) but I think the staff took pity on our sad, pathetic state (or we were just bringing the resort morale down so low that they needed to get rid of us ASAP). Either way, they scrounged up a turkey sandwich for us and had a room ready in about an hour - and for that we will be eternally grateful! Once we finally arrived in our room we both collapsed on the bed and slept for the next two days.

Wow that was a lot of complaining, eh? Don't worry... There's lots of happiness coming up in my next post! And honestly all the headaches were worth being able to arrive to all of this: