Our Last Shred Of Fun For A While: Our Honeymoon

Last week my wife and I finally went on our much anticipated honeymoon. With the job loss, it was a little more stressful than I wanted it to be, but we had fun. The hardest part was feeling guilty sharing what we went out and did the whole time because of the job loss. All the "maybe you shouldn't be going out all the time if you don't have any money" business got real old. What everyone doesn't understand is that last week was paid for and was possible because of wedding gifts. It was 100% paid for before I lost my job. We didn't use anything from our bank accounts. It was all gifts! Are we not allowed to have fun? I just wish people would stop judging others when they don't know the whole story...

Anyway, our trip started late on Sunday (August 2) after my softball game. Our first leg of the trip was in Connecticut. We stayed with my wife's grandfather (because despite what everyone believes, we are money conscious...) On Monday we went to New York City which was a surreal experience for me! It was my first time, and I enjoyed it a lot. I never thought I would ever make it to NYC with my anxiety. As a photographer though it was overwhelming. I felt as though I was missing a lot of photo opportunities. The best part was Madame Tussauds! We took a train from CT right into Grand Central Station (which was surreal in itself since it's in like every movie.) I remembered to get a real NY bagel too (which definitely lived up to the hype!) 

After our time in CT we headed to Hampton Beach which is where I proposed two years ago. It's one of our favorite spots, but after the past few days I think we both agree that it's a place that is better with more people. It was also too cold to actually go swimming in the ocean which made that leg of the trip a bit of a bummer (but what are you gonna do?) We went and sat on the beach twice and took a few strolls down at the water. We ate a lot of good food and discovered a lot of new places that we didn't know about the last time we were there which was cool. And of course we spent a lot of time at Coffee Cann which has the best coffee ever! It's Green Mountain Coffee but it's the only place we've ever seen Brownie Toffee Crunch! 

To round out our honeymoon we went to see Andy Grammer and American Authors at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom (the tickets of which I got for my birthday, and actually ended up being the entire reason we spent part of our honeymoon in Hampton.) It was an awesome concert! We got pictures with Andy's guitarist and bassist and also with Zac (lead singer) and Dave (bassist) of American Authors which was super cool! We just missed Andy after the concert though. My wife also found one of the guitar picks that American Authors threw at the end of the concert on the floor after the majority of the people cleared out, so that was our souvenir. 

So overall it was a fun week, but now we're home and I am in full "job search" mode which is really getting me down. The bills aren't going to be able to be paid with just my wife's income which is why I set up a GoFundMe page. I also have my unemployment orientation coming up. I haven't heard yet whether or not I qualify for unemployment benefits, but I really hope I do! I don't monetarily qualify for anything close to what I was making before, but it will definitely help! So if I'm not around the Blogger world for a while it's because I'm hardcore job searching and working on ways to make money.