I got home last night from Mackinac Island, very exhausted from traipsing around with my daughter and her Girl Scout troop. We had so much fun! I have always wanted to go to Mackinac, so I jumped at the chance when the troop announced this activity I was wishing I hadn’t paid for it once…
Remember how I went on an Alaskan Cruise in June? Yeah, me neither. So I guess it’s a good thing I took so many photos. Actually, I was just moving a bunch of my photo files off of my hard drive and I realized I hadn’t posted these pictures on my blog. And since the…
Our second port was Sitka, Alaska. If you’ve seen The Proposal, this is where it was set. They made a town in Maine look like Sitka, so it wasn’t actually filmed there. They did a pretty darn good job, too—amazing what the movie people can do. I loved Sitka. I thought it was one of…
The ship arrived in Glacier Bay around lunchtime on Tuesday and slowly made its way around the five different glaciers located there. I wish I could remember their names, but they were all magnificent! Especially the last two. We were extremely lucky to have such a clear day there. Apparently, it’s usually foggy, but we…
Let me preface all cruise-talk by telling you that my husband has always been completely against cruises. Whenever I would mention that I thought it would be a fun thing to do, he would shoot it down. If any of our friends ever went on a cruise, he would tell me how stupid a vacation…
Unless a small miracle occurs (and I still believe it could happen), it seems that we are staying in Cedar another year. In the spirit of having a better attitude about this, I decided we should get out of the house and enjoy the great town we live in. Because Cedar City as a place…
Our last day in NYC. It rained. A lot. So, not a ton of pictures as I was just trying to keep dry most of the time. We started out by taking a cab to Lincoln Center and browsing the Metropolitan Opera Shop. After we were done there we walked across the street to the…
Thursday was our touristy, see the sites of NYC, kind of day. After breakfast we went down to 34th Street where we did not have any miracles happen, but we did wait in a very long line to go to the top of the Empire State Building. After that we went down to Pier 83…
This post is dedicated to my mom for allowing it to even exist. Thanks mom, for a wonderful 33rd birthday spent with you in the Big Apple! (Picture taken in the Chicago airport during our unexpectedly long layover.) We slept through a doozy of a storm which shut down the subway system entirely, jam packed…
Day 4 was mostly spent driving to and in Lake Tahoe for my husband’s family reunion. We ate our last fancy meal and packed up to check out. We loaded ourselves in the car and were off to Tahoe. We drove for a while. I mention this because I read Harry Potter and the Deathly…
We started Day 3 just like all of the others: with a scrumptious breakfast of whatever the heck we wanted to eat. I think Embassy Suites has taken my heart through their amazing omelets. We headed out to the BART station where we caught a bus to visit the Legion of Honor art museum. It’s…
We spent most of our second day in San Francisco with my friend Hilary from Pulling Curls and her husband. Our husbands played in a brass quintet in college! After eating our omelets and leisurely getting ourselves showered and ready, we took the CalTrain down to Santa Clara where Hilary picked us up and took…