When I arrived at the airport, Matt was there waiting for me. We had exchanged our pictures before, so that we could recognize each other without difficulties. Matt saw me before I could see him, and so, when I saw him, he was looking towards me with a so wide and beautiful smile, that I felt like melting for the emotion. Then he drew me at the hotel where he had booked a suite and where we spent our honeymoon - the most beautiful days of our lives. This is the entrance of the hotel.

This is the side view of the hotel. We often went just strolling around the buildings, telling each other a lot of things about ourselves, and falling more and more in love with each other... We were also assisted by a fair weather almost all the days.

This is the plate outside our room - our love nest. Andrej says the little duck looks like a sparrow, and his Matt is his sparrow. When we were at last inside our suite, we could finally embrace and squeeze one against the other... I felt immediately "at home", that is where I belonged, being in the arms of Matt. As that was our first meeting, I was somewhat worried about what would be, what we could really feel when having a physical contact... Well, it has been so wonderful, so special, that we at once understood that we were really born the one for the other...

The hotel is even more beautiful at night, and on that first night, we had our most beautiful ceremony inside our love nest. All my previous worries melted like snow at the noon sun, and my sun was he, my little big sparrow, my Matt! Even if that was the first time we were together, we at once felt we were really meant for each other, and it was as if we had always been together... Were we a couple in a previous life? Or did God make each one of us having the other one in mind? Yes, it should be so, because both of us never knew such a joy, such a bliss in all our life like what we felt being together.

This is inside the mansion at Hermitage, the home of former president Andrew Jackson. When we went there, outside it was pouring cats and dogs, but inside our hearts there was nothing but sunshine. Matt showed me this historical place, knowing how much I like history... I loved the place, but I loved it a lot more just because the man I am in love with, was there with me. All my attention was mainly drawn by my Matt, even if I really enjoyed the visit...

Another shot of the mansion at Hermitage, where you can see several ladies and men dressed in that period's costumes. They were very elegant and also very kind, ant their presence made the visit somewhat like a plounge in the past... And yet, the warm, caring, loving presence of my beloved boy at my side, drew me back to the present and filled me with such a pleasure, a joy, as I never experienced before in all my life. And I understood somethink important -- after all, all my stories were nothing but a reflection of my quest for love... and my quest was over, I finally found the true love -- my Matt!

Matt made me a wonderful surprise -- we celebrated my birthday on the General Jackson showboat. It has been the most extraordinary experience for both of us. I had read, for instance on Mark Twain books, about the boats going up and down the rivers in America... and finally I could be on one of them... Besides the wonderful meal we had on the boat, and the good show, just being there, and with my utmost beloved boy, was really something very, very special!

The view from the boat is breathtaking. The river you see here is Cumberland River. But, believe me, my eyes were mainly for him, for my sweet and gentle Matt, for my tender sparrow. He really spoiled me, I had to be careful not to say about something "how nice is it"... because he would at once try to buy it for me! Well, I had never been spoiled so much... it was a very agreeable sensation... The weather was fine, the landscape breath-taking, the man I love near me... it was really the heaven!

Here is the deck where we sat and watched the scenery changing before our eyes. But more beautiful than the scenery was the bright love that is burning inside us. My Matt's smiles were brighter than the sun, sweeter than the spring around us. And I felt like an urge inside me -- telling everybody how much we were in love! I felt like if I was living in a fairy tale, being near to my Matt! I sing love in my stories, but never something even just similar to the beauty I was, and still am, experiencing thanks to my Matt! In this deck there is also the gifts shop, and Matt bought me here a lot of souvenirs, like also before at the Hermitage, and wherever we went... Yes, as I said, he relly spoiled me!

The hostess on the boat, during our wonderful meal, wished me a happy birthday on the stage in front of all the visitors, before the show. So everyone cheered, and when we left the boat, many of them whished me personally many returns... I felt so moved that I was near crying. I really never had such a wonderful birthday in all my life! Matt succeeded in really making of that day a most memorable one! He really made of all the days of our honeymoon something that I will and can never forget! But besides the presents, the surprises, the beautiful and interesting things he did for me, what made this honeymon memorable is his untamed, pure, boundless, passionate, burning love! -- Andrej Koymasky

We spent the most wonderful five days and six nights together. We went to visit Andrew Jackson's plantation, had lunch on a park bench in the rain, celebrate his birthday on General Jackson showboat. But what we did was not really important, to me, it was the time spent with him. I had thought about and dreamed about our time together for days and days. It was like my dream coming true, but even in my wildest dreams, I could never have imagined something so beautiful. Although we picked out rings later, we had our special private little ceremony in our hotel room. But it is not just a promise, but also an exchange of hearts, bodies and souls. He is my first man, and he will always be my only man, as I have never and will never love another man as much as my Andrej. And we made love as often as we could, we were tireless and insatiable for each other, but it was so beautiful, like paradise, and it was not just something physical, but also emotional and spiritual, something I had never experienced in my entire life. I became his as we became one, in every sense of the word. Even today, I can feel his essence inside me, as I know he is always with me. And I am more madly in love with him than ever... -- Matt Koymasky