Birthday on an island

It's been a few days and we've walked down the beach from a friends house, went out on a boat on the inter coastal, stopped at a place in Port Lucaya got a drink and drove home. We saw the Ghost1 ship from the Pirates movies. They film the movies here and some in the Dominican, which I didn't know but I got a picture of it! Sunday was my birthday, my GOLDEN birthday. We went to Port Lucaya at a resort called Pelican Bay and ate at the restaurant on the dock over looking the marina (the picture on the left is the view from our table). The sun was setting and all the clouds were super blue. It was my first time ordering fish for myself, parmesan crusted grouper!! Darin had hog fish, his favorite. Really really good dinner for a birthday dinner. Got icecream from a little place and headed home to watch Alice in Wonderland! On another note, the shop is coming along, we went and cleaned up the inside yesterday, pulled some stuff down (it's being remodeled). The place used to be a clothing store, so the perk was that I got A LOT of hangers!!! My clothes are still in my suitcase so this is really exciting! I get to hang my clothes!

And so it begins....the Doty Life

Est. 6.11.10, that's right!! You all know the story of us meeting in high school, we kept in touch over the years and in 2006 we started dating and in October 2009 Darin moved to Turks and Caicos, and I went down to visit for Christmas and New Years. Our 4 year anniversary was in January, so while I was there, Darin proposed at sunset on the beach. From then he moved to Nassau, as I planned our wedding in Florida. June 11th we got married, and Darin moved to Freeport the following Monday. I, as of June 24th, moved to Freeport to be with my new Hubby. Been here officially a day so far. I left at 7:30am, my mom and dad brought me to the airport around 5:30am, it was SOOO early!! I had 2 very large bags and my carry on, I thought the bags were to heavy so I called at 12am while packing to ask about the overweight fees, and how many bags I could have. Talking to a lady with American airlines, I decided to take 3 bags and the first two were free if under 50lbs, and the third would be $100....so that was fine, I expected one fee. Arriving at the airport and checking in, i'm sure glad my parents came in with me. I could only bring 2 bags under 70olbs and it would be $50 a bag....HOLY CRAP!!!! So the 3 of us go to the side and my dad is weighing the suitcases, as i'm pulling crap out and throwing it into another suitcase. It only took about 10mins which was great because I needed to do this fast. Get back to check in, and my 2 bags are 68.5lbs and 68lbs!! WAHOOO ok thank goodness!! My parents walk me to the security line which is quite long but went pretty quick. I had to say goodbye to the people who've raised me for the last 27years of their life. I'm the oldest, and i'm moving out of the country....I couldn't imagine my kid leaving me like that, but they know it had to be done. Ofcourse I cried, my mom cried and my dad tried and did a good job but I saw some tears. They stayed by the window till I went through security and couldn't see them anymore. My mom stood there blowing kisses and my dad waved every time we caught a glimpse of each other. I'm quite lucky to have parents like that. Getting on the plane to Miami was perfect, I made it right as it was boarding. In Miami I had to sit and wait an hour or so...I realized it was just me, and I was actually leaving and moving. I got kinda nervous and my stomach was a little nausea, I kept thinking as soon as I see Darin things will be fine, I just have to get there. All the mixed feelings of being sad and nervous, excited and happy was a little much for me. Sitting on the second plane to go into Freeport, I thought I was going to pass out! GREAT! Thats all I needed right now, and this poor girl next to me is about to freak out when I tell her I might pass out and to get someone. I took a few deep breaths and put my head between my legs pretending to get something out of my backpack under my seat, scrambled around for a min or so and sat back up. Ok, refocus....I think i'm ok, i'll just keep reading the magazine. I did fine the rest of the flight thank God! Arrived in Freeport, got through customs, they checked my bag because I was alone and had 2 huge bags and 2 carryons....great, more money I had to pay, oh well. She asked who I was visiting, I said a friend. She asked if I had gifts, I said a few t-shirts and a hat. That seemed ok to her, but opening the other one she asked about my cutting board and the electric wine opener....oops, um yea those are gifts too, he needed on but it was cheap" I told her. She should of charged me duty and didn't!! I was free to go! So onward to the curb outside where Darin soon picked me up in our 78' Lincon Grand Marquis LOL...and he's right people stop him and yell things and ask how much to buy it, almost like we're in a porsche but we're not. It's kinda funny, the police lady at the airport came up to us and I thought she was gonna say something about my luggage but she told Darin, i'm not here to arrest you I just wanna look at the car, ha ha....I feel almost famous riding in that thing! Anyway....It's beautiful here, trees and landscape kinda like Florida, reminds me of home. The buildings are newer, the beaches are amazing, our house is so so so cute, and there is just a lot of happiness and love here. Last night (my first night) we went out for sushi at this great place called East. I had California Rolls as usual but with king crab, really really good. I tried a spicy tuna roll that Darin had, and I ate plain clam meat that a friend had. No real taste to the clam, just chewy, and the spicy tuna roll was definitely spicy. We went out after to dance and go to some bars in Port Lacaya, had a great time all night!! Today we went to a friends house (right on the beach, so pretty) and watched USA lose :( we walked home down the beach only a few streets over. I could get used to this.....loving it so far!! I promise this will be the only LONG post, it's the first so what'd you expect :)