The Countdown is On!featured
Three weeks from right now, I’ll be leavin’ [Charlotte] on a jet plane, bound for a 19 day Euro-adventure, with ten of those days onboard the brand spanking new Carnival Vista.
((Well, three weeks from right now, when I’m writing this. By the time I actually get around to posting it, who knows where we’ll be in this countdown…))
Our first time in Barcelona was nothing short of magical
How did that happen? Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday, we were getting ready for our first Euro-adventure on the Vision of the Seas.
I’ve been re-reading my trip journal from that Vision trip. I keep coming back to two things I kept saying over and over again:
I was overwhelmed with anticipation.
I didn’t know how it could possibly get any better.
We haven’t even left yet, and I’m already overwhelmed by the anticipation. And even though I know it can always get better, I still don’t know how it can get any better than what we experienced last year. 19 days. This is a huge adventure. And above and beyond that, we get to experience half of it on a brand new cruise ship, the biggest and best in the fleet. Even for seasoned cruisers like us, the Carnival Vista is so new and different and exciting from everything we’ve become accustomed to.
I’m so excited to share it with all of you. Seriously. It’s one of the things I’m looking forward to the most. I’m that person — you know…the one who gets so excited that they have to share in their excitement with someone else in order to properly experience it. I got a new monitor at work the other day and I literally made two of my coworkers come over to my desk to admire it. To be fair, it’s a super sweet, super big Apple monitor with ridiculous resolution. But still. When good things happen around me, I need to share them with good people, and you all are my best people. So pictures, videos, posts waxing poetic about this amazing ship we’re about to sail on…expect lots of those here, on Facebook, on Instagram and on Twitter. We’re doing this one live.
You can count on lots of sunset pictures, like this one from the coast of Capri
We’re still wrapping up final details of our trip. We have all of our flights and hotels booked, but none of our excursions and activities. Our last Mediterranean cruise was, above and beyond, the greatest trip I’ve ever taken and when you have that much fun, your first inclination is to replicate it. But as Stephanie is quick to always remind me, we risk ruining it if we try to replicate it, and we miss out on experiencing so much more. So we’re working through figuring out how we get back to our absolute favorites while making this trip as different from our last one as possible.
We’ve got Barcelona, Provence, Florence/Pisa, Rome, Naples, Crete, Rhodes, Athens, Zurich, Colmar, Brussels and Paris on the itinerary. If you have tips, suggestions or recommendations, I would love to hear them! And if you have any Vista things you want us to explore, take a picture of, find out, whatever, let me know!
