 our honeymoon. And I'll never forget going to San Francisco, getting on that flight. And flying to Greece. Should we do an episode on our honeymoon and talk about where we went? I have all the photos. What do you guys think? Yeah, I think that'll be really cool. That could be kind of cool. So, uh, the funny thing was... Oh my god, are you gonna... No, if you get married in May, it's not summer anywhere. It's kind of... Oh gosh, I forgot to put lotion on. You can play tic-tac-toe. I'm gonna win this one. If you get married in May, it's not summer anywhere. It's almost summer in a lot of places, and it's almost... It's going into fall in places, depending on where it's in fall. So for us, it was like, I don't want to do... I love Hawaii, and I love the Caribbean, or Caribbean, depending on how you are. But we had two full weeks. We had two full weeks. And I like to see things. Yes. We vacation differently. He likes to do-do-do-do, go-go-go-go. A couple of days at downtime, but I want to see or experience something new. I would just like to look at the ocean. She wants to sit. So in my honeymoon, like, Adam was saying... Let's go brief first. I know, but Adam was saying that it's hard to find places that are warm in May, other than, like, the typical, like, VG. Are the Maldives? Yeah. Could have gone there, I guess. But I think you have to go on small planes to get to those places, right? She doesn't want to go on small planes. And I don't like... They're safer. Even though I flew one back and forth for the real, but still, that's, like, 30-seater. We're talking about, like, we're talking about, like, four-seaters, and I just was not in the mood for that. So my original plan was to go to, like, Mozambique, go into Africa and stuff, and... But you know, the problem with that was that we were only beaches that that were good at that time of the year, so it came down to this. We gave her a couple of options. She chose Greece, and I chose Turkey. And we had two weeks, and it was awesome. We literally left the next day. Yeah. So we got married on Sunday night, we partied up, had a great time, something, Monday. We were on a plane by six o'clock Monday on our way out of the country, and we went straight to Athens, and it was just amazing to show up in Athens at night. I was already on, like, Cloud 9 and was experiencing this, you know, like the wedding bliss high. And to get on the plane, have, you know, a glass of wine, great food, whatever, and to land in Greece and see this gorgeous, gorgeous ruin just lit up. Remember on the hill, remember I looked at you and I was like, wow, it was beautiful. We went to this restaurant where you can actually see... There was a rooftop. While you were dining, the ruins. It was just beautiful. And like we got there, we went to our hotel, we checked in, and went straight to dinner. And this restaurant, like Tamara says, overlooked. You can see it was just stunning. The next morning we woke up and we just, we toured Athens and spent, you know, a couple of days in Athens and went to Corinth and saw the Corinth canal. Also, Corinth is a city, yes, I will never forget. One of the things that I love about my husband when I first met him, talking like he's not here, is that he loves to travel. And I love to travel. I love learning about other cultures. I love eating different types of food. The Greek food there. Fantastic. Oh my gosh, even the french fries. I was like, even the best french fries I've had in my life. We didn't want the trip to the end. So we, you know, we were there for a few days and jumped on a high-speed ferry and went out to Santorini. I've been told how cool Santorini was. You don't get the coolness factor until you're actually there. Yeah. Just stunning. Pictures are stunning, but once you see it in person, it literally feels like you're in a movie. And what's great is I had to, I had to plan things out. I had a lady who was a specialist in the area helped me with it. And we found these, this cool, it was called the Altana, I think, houses. And there was a, it was a sea captain's house that two twin brothers, funny enough to marry a twin, had taken over from their parents. And they had like, they had like six or eight unances all made a pool. And we had this amazing patio that came out. You walk out in the morning with this tea, your tea and your breakfast. You look out and you're like, my gosh, this is like I'm in a Disney movie. It doesn't seem real. Yeah, it was perfect. It's so beautiful. And the twins, they were so sweet. You were actually still friends with them. Yeah, on Facebook now. And my dream is, you know, now that we have the kids is to go back and actually, you know, tell the kids of the really cool adventures that we had. Take them around and show them all. But do you remember our first night in Santorini? I wanted to try Yuzo. Well, it was lunch and it's a really good restaurant in Santorini. We went back twice. Yeah, you can stay in Ea's at the end. So Ea's where the famous pictures come from at the sunset. And we went down there and enjoyed that. We were more in the middle of the island near Ferro Stefani, I think is what it's called. And there was a restaurant. It's walking paths. We never, you never, you never needed a taxi really. It's walked everywhere. We've done this walking path. It wasn't far away and they had just amazing Greek food and the owner came over. He found out it was our honeymoon and he, and we wanted to try Yuzo. I had a shot. Tamara had two. Well, you didn't like it because it tastes like licorice. But I still drank one. And then I was like, but it's our honeymoon. No one explained to me what Yuzo was. The next thing I remember is being waking up from being passed out. I think it was three. Yeah, three hours. So we get back to the hotel room and she passed out. I'm going to take a nap out cold. So I'm like, I'm wide awake and it's like two in the afternoon. So I'm like, well, so I hiked down to these ruins that were down. It would probably been kind of, it was kind of a strenuous hike and being our honeymoon, she probably would have been like, Adam, what are you doing? So I hiked down there, got a bunch of photos and came back. How would I be? Adam, what are we doing? So I actually, it was a nice getaway for me to kind of also get my mind straight with all the credit. You've just been a whirlwind couple of weeks getting, you know, anybody who gets married knows all amazing moments, which is nice to get out there and just like, oh man, this is, you know, we did it. This is amazing. And I came back and she was still out cold. Am I finally, I woke her up and she was like, I was, I was out for how long? I'm like three hours. And I was like, oh my gosh, I felt so bad. I was like, what did you do? He said, walk around the whole island. No, just down there. But yeah. And do you remember seeing the sunset here for the first night? Stunning, just stunning. Stunning. We spent four days and four nights there, went all over the island. One day I rented a small car, a smart car and drove around the island and basically from one tip the island to the other. But for the most part, the rest of the three days were there at night. We just stayed in our, right around our, up the Altana houses. There was amazing food. You could walk everywhere to rest. Great music. It was just, I can't wait to go back. I really can't wait. Me too, I miss it. And then. We took a ferry. Overnight ferry, which I recommend because we love water and you can fly anytime. Plus she doesn't like little planes. So I found an overnight ferry from Santorini left at 11 o'clock at night and arrived in Rotis at 7.30 or 8.00 the next morning. So it was perfect. Rotis, what a sweet little, little town. We stayed inside actually. The old city. The old city. The walled city. I recommend it. If you can do that, do it. Amazing. I think that's where I had my favorite French fries. Those French fries were. I think it was there. We stayed, I can't think of his name. His name is John. He owns a little, he owned, built a little hotel with four rooms and it was in literally inside the walls that were built. Do we learn about the Christian Crusades there? The Crusaders were there. Are the Knights of, the Knights of... I can't think of it. Not the round table. That's the Knights of the Knights of the Knights. Well, we can't think of it right now but by the time we edit this video, it'll be there. The Knights Templar, the Knights Templar were there. Okay. And they have like, they have the colonnade and we also just, I love taking photos. We had these amazing photos. We went all around the city. The food was great. We had, then we went to this other of these, these Roman ruins, our Greek ruins up on the hill, remember, in a town that wasn't too far away. And when we got there, we took, Tamara took a burrow up the hill, remember? A what? A burrow, a little, a little donkey, basically. Oh my gosh. Yes. That was so much fun. And then when we came down, didn't we have... We had the fish. The fish. We had a fish pedicure. That was odd. I will tell you this. It tickled. It just makes you feel nasty because you don't... I know my feet aren't that nasty, but the way the fish were eating it, and they were not afraid of the bunion, they, and then they get inside your toes. Okay. We'll just quit this. It was... Next launch was fabulous for us. I'd rather a sea salt scrub or something. So then I like to experience it. So there's Tamara. So we took the one hour ferry from Rhodes after a few days to Turkey. And we rented a car there. Had lunch there. There was a little castle on a hill. I mean, the smallest castle, like smaller than a house, up on this little hill in the middle of the whole city. We walked up there. We had lunch. We rented a car and then we drove. And here's the best part for me. I'm driving. And I drive for like... She falls asleep. So it's like a three hour drive at this point. And I drove through some of the most amazing scenery I've ever seen. Like rock forests, like just rocks for like miles. I don't remember that. I know you were sleeping. And then there was a amazing forest of olive trees. Like it was like... I don't know if it was an olive. It just seemed like it went on forever. Everywhere I looked was olive trees. But then we came down into an area of a city that's being rebuilt right now, right at dusk. It's really dusty. And Tamara woke up and we were nowhere near a beach at this point. She was mad at me. Well, because when you think of honeymoon, for me, I think of beaches. I got like again, like Hawaii, like Fiji. All I wanted was like like a Mai Tai. And some chips and salsa with guacamole. I just wanted like one little moment of that. So I thought that that's what we were going to do in Turkey. Yeah. We ended up going to Badr Manishmir, which gave us that. So we eventually went. I was a little snotty. I'm admitting that. Well, you have a right to be, because listen, if she'd been sleeping for three hours and she woke up into... We were literally in the middle of a construction site. I remember thinking in my head, this would be the bad time for Tamara to wake up. Because I've just seen three hours of amazing scenery. And sure enough, she woke up. And obviously, those, I mean, it's okay to have those towns. Oh, no, it was being rebuilt. But what it was being rebuilt, I don't want to come off like that. No, no, no, no. But at the same time, I was thinking of our honeymoon. I was thinking this resort. I was thinking and we just stopped. And I'm like... However, when we got to, when we saw Badr Manishmir all on the way, the Turkish Riviera was stunning. And I have to say, the Turkish people are some of the people I will never forget. So friendly. They're so friendly, so loving. And we went to the spice market. Do you remember that? And I kept some of those spices for years. It was so much fun. We actually have a picture, I think, of me in the middle of the market. And it was just, it was beautiful. And we got to go beach resort there for a couple of days. And then, you know, we were there for, I think it was the European soccer championships. We went out one night for dinner and we got to sit in, you know, a Turkish cafe on the beach in our little plastic chairs and have dinner and watch this soccer championship. Yes. Do you remember? And even our cab driver, he was so sweet. Adam actually became friends. That was when we were in Istanbul. Istanbul. I still friend him on Facebook. Yes. So the running joke is, is that Adam pretty much knows everybody everywhere that you can travel safely around the world. And non-safely. And yes. And non-safely. I try to forget that. And it's because he makes friends wherever he goes. So I can remember we were traveling, I think it was in Africa. And I said, this was after I had even been undecrusted. And I said, Adam, yeah. Do you know, do you know people here? And he was like, yeah, actually I know too. And we ended up meeting both of them. So the cab driver in Istanbul. Yeah, you did it. But he ended up making friends. What's the, what's the famous ruins he went to? And, um... Turkey? Yeah. Look at it. So we have to know this one. I'm curious. Famous, type in, famous turkey ruins. Why can't I think of the name right now? Famous turkey ruins. Yep. Episodes. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's when we did not remember Ephesus. I know. So we... Oh, it was. And again, the Bible. Yep. Ephesians. We don't... I always connect these. The Bible. We go to Ephesus. And first of all, we stayed in this hotel. Ephesians. This hotel that was, hadn't been updated since the 60s, but was still really nice. And the Kennedys had stayed there. So you felt like you were walking into an Austin Powers film. But it was, it was so clean and so nice. It was right over the water. So literally probably the best seat I've ever had in my life. All you heard was the ocean crashing under our room. And then the next day we go to Ephesus. And it was just, and Tamara made friends with the, the guy. He was the sweetest man. And they became like best pals. He took us everywhere. And it was just amazing to see the ruins of Ephesus. It was, I mean... That's where the library was, right? It was jaw dropping. I mean, also the technology that they had that we don't even know now. Do you remember seeing there was a statue of the world actually round? And what our guide told us was way, way, way back in the day, they knew that the earth was round. And because the, the town was covered at one point, people forgot about that and people thought it was flat again. And then obviously we know the world is round. Although there are still people who think it's flat, even though you, you see it clearly, but... The world's not flat. Yes. We go from Athens to Corinth, the Santorini to Rhodes, to the Turkish Riviera to Ephesus. And then the final little trip was a smaller jet, but she was fine with it. We went to, we ended in Istanbul, which is where that bridge was. And we spent a couple of days there. We went to the, the amazing like cistern under the, it's under the ground. It looks like it's called, I don't know what it's called, but it's like a cathedral. It's a cistern, it looks like a cathedral. We went to, you know, all these amazing places in Istanbul and the people there were also fantastic. And remember when we checked into our hotel, remember who we saw there? They were a... Famous band? Famous band. Michael Stipe. Why can't I'm going blank? There's a lot of blanks, we had to look at this. Look it up, look it up, look it up, look it up. Michael Stipe's his name. I can't even name the band. Oh my gosh, here we go again. We're out and looking this up. That does, what we've been, we've always been married for like 10 years too. We really just have an amazing... Okay. Okay, R-E-M. R-E-M, for crying out loud. I would never would have gotten that. I'm so tired. I got the M-R-E-M right. Love, I was next to me with Michael. So we're checking in our hotel and there's a guy with red pants in front of me. And I mean they were bright red pants and we have to go in Istanbul. I remember his head. Yeah, it was shade. Shade. And you have to go through a metal detector. And so I remember thinking, hey, those are some red pants. And so we go through and it turns around, he's like, hello. And he goes, hello. And I'm like, hey, how you doing? I'm thinking, that's Michael Stipe from R-E-M. And then we were there, they did a concert that night and then they announced they'd break it up. We should have gone. We should have gone to the concert in Istanbul. And it was literally afterwards. Yeah. So maybe, I don't know, maybe that was it for them. I don't know what happened. Or maybe they knew that was it. We're the cause of R-E-M's break up. No. I mean, it was really cool to go to the Blue Mosque and just to see Istanbul and the culture that's there. I mean, you know, Constantinople, Istanbul, I mean the history of that city. I wonder if the spice market was just absolutely stunning. It was beautiful. And I kept those spices for a very long time. And I remember, babe, we wanted to find them again. When we were using my last bit, I was like, this is it. But overall, we had an amazing honeymoon. I gained 10 pounds. No, you did. Yes, I did. I gained 10 pounds. We're curious to hear where you guys went for your honeymoon. And if you're not married, but you want to get married, where do you want to go? Where do you want to go? What are some of the places you like? What are some of the places that you want to go to if you're not married? What are some of the things did you do in your honeymoon? Did you have fish eat your feet? Did you hike the ruins of some? Did you ride a camel? Did you ride a camel? You were a girl. It was awesome. It was. I'm sorry. A donkey. I guess one more thing we did. On the way home, we stopped through London for like eight hours and met our friends at a pub. We did. And it was, no, that was the other time we went to London. I was like, and it was raining. No, that was the other time we went to London. To London. In a pub. Yeah. And then we went home. And then I remember shooting the rest of Teen's Mare. I remember not wanting to come home though. I just wanted to stay and it was a beautiful, beautiful honeymoon. We, it was, it was, it was one, it was a trip for the ages. And we were so blessed to be able to experience and see so many things. And I can't wait to take the kids back and show them. Don't forget to subscribe to The Housie Life.