to understand the difference between "Pause" and "Stop" replication, we blogged this a while ago:
Stop vs Pause with vSphere Replication | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs
why this matters is that in the process mmarinov gave you one of the key pieces is to NOT remove the disks from the recovery site. If you did do that it means you would need to perform a full-sync or upload copies of the vmdks (if using the pre-seed technique) again.