Heaven On Earth

After literally years of Alex telling me how beautiful Bermuda is, I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend his wedding, and got to see for myself. I haven't had the chance to travel much yet, especially to tropical islands, so I wasn't sure if all vacations were so incredible. And I got my answers from all walks of wedding guests: Nope. One girl told me the islands off of Greece didn't have water so blue. Another guest told me how she had travelled the world and never seen skies so picturesque. So now that I have one stamp in my passport book, there is a high probability that the same stamp may be seen in it over and over again.

I stayed at the Mandarin Oriental in Bermuda, The Elbow Beach Bermuda. Every picture I took looked like a postcard, and every second I was there felt like a movie. Coming back to reality was a little painful, but as I was telling a friend, just knowing that paradise is real and people are living it makes life somehow lighter. The trip included my resolve to try and like fish and to walk more that twenty yards* away from my blackberry. (*Yards was to honor the British colony.) More than likely, I will be featuring pictures sporadically, for a few reasons. Mostly, when I thought about uploading over a hundred similarly stunning photos at once, I felt bad for any readers and myself simultaneously. And on second thought, I would like to bring back the trip randomly always.

I'll finish with one amazing quote, that summed up the island to me: "When your mind stops working, let your body do the thinking." This was told to me by a hotel employee who escorted me back to my first room after I accidentally left my phone on a chair. I jogged up the cliff thinking about losing all of my contacts and vowing to update my computer with new contact info, which I still haven't done. And I was met by this island man, seemingly carefree and charming and wise beyond measure. I want to go back!