I’m convinced nothing good ever happens before 7:00 am. On my normal, non-traveling schedule, I don’t even wake up for work before 8:00 am. So when Stephanie found some last minute breakfast reservations for the Be Our Guest restaurant at 7:40 am and jumped on them, I wasn’t entirely excited. Wasn’t this supposed to be Read more
These always start the same, don’t they? I feel like they do. We book a trip (probably a month before we leave, unless we’re going to Europe). I write about how work keeps me busy (always true) and how things snuck up on me and suddenly, we’re leaving. This time, I kind of knew these Read more
Waking up in our hotel room in Barcelona brought mixed emotions: I was so sad to leave Barcelona, a city I can never get enough of, but if I’m going to leave this magnificent city for anything, the Carnival Vista is certainly a worthy reason. We’d planned on waking up at 7:30 am, finishing our Read more
For all of the boasting I did the day before about conquering jetlag, I was still dealing with a few minor side effects. I wasn’t feeling quite the obvious punch Stephanie was. I just…wasn’t able to sleep. So the 7:30 am wake up that came ahead of our day tour on our second day in Read more
How did we get here? I feel like that’s been the mantra running through my head for the two weeks leading up to this, as I’ve prepared for a big, splashy Europe trip that somehow feels like an extension of last year’s trip (…which somehow feels like yesterday and not an entire YEAR ago!). Through Read more
