I have a confession.....well, 2 actually...

I have 2 confessions....one about me and the other I'm making for Kyle! Here we go!

First off, on our drive out west, and only hours into the trip might I add, I couldn't take it......................I had to dig into the tightly sealed, frozen top layer of our delicous, strawberry wedding cake! I know it is "tradition" to let it sit in your freezer for a year, but seriously who does this?? Okay, so maybe the majority of married couples out there do, but not Kyle and I and not with my insane, crazy, sweet tooth addiction that I have. I get it honest....between my dad and I, I'm not sure who consumes more sweets on a daily basis! So, I did it, I sat the wrapped, bagged, bagged again and wrapped again cake in my lap while driving through the state of Missouri and I started to open it while Kyle in the background said "Are you really going to open and eat it?" "Seriously, Rachel" "You are!"......and I did! Let me pause and say Brooklyn if you are reading this I'm sorry....thank you so much for at least preserving the cake until our return from the honeymoon! :) It was just as wonderful and delicous as I suspected it would be. The icing was perfect and the cake still tasted of fresh sweetened strawberries! I enjoyed every bite of it. Kyle even tasted a bite of it....maybe not on the first opening, but one of the days on the trip he did eat a little, but honestly I did consume most of it. You are probably shocked that I didn't consume the entire top layer in one sitting, but be shocked because I didn't. I took what little we had left each day into the hotel with us and put it in the fridge until I had taken the last bite on Saturday. Yes, the life of the trip was 5 days and the cake life was 4. There was a close call one morning when we were getting in the car to leave the hotel and I freaked out because I forgot the cake.....no worries I ran back in and saved what was left. Call me guilty......but, I see it as not letting impeccable, scrumptious cake go to waste! :)

Confession #2 on Kyle's behalf:

Day 2 or 3 into the trip.....I really can't remember.....but, we were making the long journey across I90 from one side of South Dakota all the way to the other and Kyle's lead foot finally caught up with him! Kidding.....actually Kyle is one of those people that refuses to go 5 miles over the posted speed limit, while I on the other hand like to push the limits and go as far as I can without getting in trouble and go at least 10 miles over the posted speed limit. Maybe all Kyle's speeding tickets from his younger years have made him a little more cautious, but that's what makes this story even better.....the cautious, careful driver gets the ticket and not the one that drives fast and also encourages her husband to do so. So, back to the story at hand.....basically while driving from one side of SD to the other on I90 the speed limit stays a steady 75 miles per hour across pretty much the entire state until you get to the 10 or 12 mile speed trap (or how the state produces it's revenue) in Rapid City, SD and it drops to 65 mph! It all happened so fast.....we were about to stop our driving journey for the day and we realized that we were about 5 miles or less from our hotel. Then all at once Kyle is messing with the GPS and the speed limit changes and we miss the sign! So, one of South Dakota's finest pulls out and turns on the blue lights and we decided it might be a good idea to pull over. The cop comes up and Kyle starts to explain the story and the... what we thought was nice cop... told him to just get out of the car and follow him. I said to the cop don't you want to see proof of insurance and the registration on the car?....he said no, not necessary. I thought SWEET Kyle is getting out of his speeding ticket like I usually do! So, Kyle sat with the cop in his car for the longest 10 minutes ever and the cop told him that the speed limit changed and 1 mile in he still had not slowed down and that this is just what happens.....you get a speeding ticket and you pay it....no big deal. Kyle was fined 122 bucks for going 80 in a 65 which was 75 just 1 mile prior....go figure! Might I add, I think the cop was slightly bitter....he confessed that he just received a speeding ticket about a month and a half earlier when he was out of his jurisdiction and he had to pay it. So, all of you wondering out there....policeman really can get speeding tickets as well. So, I get a picture of Kyle with his speeding ticket and we literally drive to the very next exit, 1/4th of the mile down the road where our hotel is located and pull over for the evening! Good thing Kyle won in his fantasy sports league b/c that will be used to pay his 122 dollar contribution to the state of SD!