Beattys Overseas

All smiles on our wedding dayWe spent our first wedding anniversary in sunny Buenos Aires, as we're here for the next few weeks. John made breakfast in bed and brought a bouquet of lilies for me (awwww!), and we headed out to B.A.'s oldest neighborhood, San Telmo, where a huge street market takes place each Sunday. We bopped around looking at antique housewares, vintage linens, local artwork, vintage clothing and a bunch of other stuff that I'd have to categorize as "junk." It's a huge street festival, with nearly a dozen roads closed all day Sunday. We did a lot of browsing and people-watching. A large amount of street performers entertained the milling crowds, including a handful of excellent tango dancers.

It's hard to believe it's been a whole year since our wedding; especially since we've been milking the honeymoon idea during the whole trip. Our trip, monikered the "super long, extended delayed honeymoon," enabled each of us the liberty to tell people we meet that this is our honeymoon trip. This was most beneficial in the Hotel & Lodging department...

I think we got the idea in Rome, that honeymooners get treated better and are more pleasantly looked-after by hotel staff, so as we checked in, John happily inquired if they were putting us in the honeymoon suite. 
One Year Later; Still Smiling!Next thing you know, a lovely bottle of champagne showed up at our (standard room) door, compliments of the hotel.  Naturally this got us thinking. Why not ...volunteer... that it's our honeymoon when checking into hotels? I mean we're practically newlyweds... Tacky?  Perhaps. But when you're going to be staying in nearly 15 different hotels all over the world, the "honeymoon" mention has given us a few upgrades and definitely better attention. Not to mention a few bottles of bubbly.

Now that it's been a full year since our wedding, I think it's about time to nix the honeymoon mention. Besides, we don't plan in being in any more hotels during the rest of our trip.*

- Whitney

* We're making some changes to the itinerary, cancelling Venezuela and staying in Argentina a little longer. Posted itinerary (on the left) will be changed when flights and schedules are certain.