Lotus dude and I had a lot of discussion about where we should go for our honeymoon.  But given the number of vacation days we would have available to us after the wedding, an extended vacation was not going to be possible for us. Therefore, we’ve decided to go for a “mini-moon.”  We’ll take a small vacation after the wedding just to get away and have some time to ourselves to savor our first week as a married couple.  But it won’t involve an exotic locale.

As we would only have five or six nights to get away after the wedding, it doesn’t make sense for us to go somewhere that will involve a long flight as that will just eat into our limited vacation time.  We briefly considered a jaunt to somewhere in the Caribbean, but we decided against it once we realized it would be hurricane season in September.

So we have settled on Las Vegas!  We spent our third anniversary there so it has some meaning to us and we are a little bit familiar with the city.  But we only spent a couple days there so we still have plenty left to see in Vegas.  It has plenty of fun restaurant and show offerings for us to spoil ourselves.  Lotus Dude’s grandfather has offered us the use of his time share there for most of our stay, and we’ll spend two nights in a hotel so we still get a bit of that pampered feeling.  There are plenty of cheap flights to Vegas, and we’ll save money by only needing 2 nights of hotel stay.  We’ve decided on the Mandalay Bay as they have built a beach in the hotel so we’ll even get a bit of beach time in.

And we’re still planning on a trip to an exotic locale.  We’re just postponing it until our first anniversary so that we will have more time to save, more time to plan, and more vacation days available.  It will also give us something else to work on and look forward after the wedding when we may be feeling some post-wedding drop.  Currently the plan is a trip to India so I can introduce Lotus Dude to my extended family and the country I was born in.