I can’t lie and say I’ve had this longtime dream to visit Russia. Between the tense political climate bringing Russia into the news on what seems like a daily basis and a large Russian cultural presence back home, I’ve just never felt like I needed to leave home to experience Russia – there was plenty Read more
You know those fairy tale towns that you see in animated Disney movies? The ones that are so perfect that they couldn’t be real, with narrow streets lined with tall, brick capped buildings and perfectly imperfect cobblestone streets? When I woke up, that was outside of my balcony window. Tallinn, it seems, is like one Read more
We have sea day routines down pat when we’re sailing through warm waters. Most of our days look the same, and we’re okay with that. But even though our Norwegian Getaway was leaving a warm port was sailing towards another warm port, the waters in between were downright frigid, vacillating between the upper 40s and Read more
I had mixed feelings about visiting Germany. There’s so much history and I always get super excited to walk on the sites of major historical events. Like really excited. In a totally nerdy way. But on the other hand, so many terrible things have happened in Germany that shaped the history of our family, that Read more
It’s kind of hard to believe that it took us 13 years of cruising and 20+ cruises to book our first Norwegian cruise. I’m not entirely sure why it took so long – everything about the concept of freestyle cruising appeals to us and Norwegian builds some pretty awesome ships. But we didn’t book this Read more
