We all need a little [Carnival] Sunshine in our lives, don’t we? It’s been a crazy week at work. A crazy month, really. Q4 is like my Olympics — I train all year for it, but there’s really no amount of stretching I can do to really prepare myself for the madness that ensues every Read more
Mom has had some pretty awesome birthdays over the past eleven years. She’s always somewhere on her birthday. One year, we were in Disneyland. Another year, we were in the Bahamas. Last year, we were in St. Lucia on her birthday. She laughs it off, usually posting some (unintentional) humble brag on Facebook about having Read more
Location is key when visiting Paris, even more so when you’ve never visited before. With three days in Paris planned for our big Europe trip, we knew that we needed to choose a good one. Paris hotels have a reputation for being on the small side, and my family does not travel light, so our Read more
Mornings that begin before 7:00 am are pretty awful. Mornings that begin before 7:00 am and you have to debark a cruise ship? They’re downright miserable. The cruise portion of our trip had slowly ticked by and then passed us in a rush all at once. Sometimes, it felt like we’d been away for the Read more
We’d finally reached the end of the road on this Vision of the Seas cruise: the last sea day. There was nothing left to do except everything we didn’t do in the past week and a half. And pack. But packing’s the worst, isn’t it? I always put off packing before we leave because as Read more
