A honeymoon is supposed to be the celebration of a couple’s new life together, but Lynn and Steven Curran’s honeymoon was more like an episode of “When Animals Attack.”
The newlyweds from Chester, Md., had enough close encounters with wild critters to fill the storylines of several “nature run amok” movies. Because of their beast-plagued honeymoon, the couple recently won the grand prize in Thrifty Car Rental’s 10th annual Honeymoon Disasters Contest.
Things started off mundanely enough for the Currans on their trip to Cancun, Mexico: They got the usual sunburns. That’s when the couple decided that a moonlit swim in the ocean might be the perfect antidote for their lobster-red skin.
“No one was looking,” said Lynn, “so off went the bathing suits.” As the skinny-dippers frolicked in the water, it wasn’t long before they realized they had company. Soon, the couple found themselves wrapped in the loving arms of a large jellyfish.
“We ran out of the water screaming,” said Lynn, “which told everybody on the beach, ‘Hey, look at the idiots running...