I finally graduate with my master's degree on June 13. I tend to not acknowledge my accomplishments, so when I ran the idea of a cruise by my husband to celebrate he was all for it. Since I've been interning almost full time and he's working full time we barely see each other. We don't get any days off together. Once I graduate I'll be getting a full time job and then these long vacations won't be happening for a long time. We've been talking about having kids so...

Well, all good things must come to an end. Going home this time isn't nearly as sad as it usually is though. We live in Florida now where everyday is like a vacation. Plus in two days we get a puppy! That's right, we're getting a boy Golden Retriever (Bailey) to add to our family. He'll be joining our eight year old female Golden, Raina. Anyway our last two days were at sea and I thought for sure we'd get bored. I thought wrong. We took advantage of a few sales...

Here we are all settled into the Carnival Dream. We have a balcony cove room which is awesome! They're on deck 2 and from what I've read of reviews the deck is a little more private and as close to the water as can be. We like our room, it's slightly nicer than the others we've been in on past cruises, though I suspect it might be from all of the sunlight coming in from our balcony. The dream looks like a pretty nice ship so far. This is my fourth cruise and my h...

Cruise time is finally here! It's been a really stressful couple of months. First my husband and I packed up and moved from Denver, Colorado to Tampa, Florida. We put our house on the market the day we left and waited four months for it to sell. Four months of double mortgage and rent. Then there was the issue of finding a job, which also had me worried. But I found the job and the house sold, so this cruise is our celebration and transition from stress to no mor...

Miami has definitely taken the number one spot as my favorite city in Florida. Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg are bumped down to number 2. When I got to Miami I was originally supposed to do a go car tour. It's a talking GPS tour but I didn't really feel like doing it because I didn't feel like driving around Miami anymore. I went though since I had prepaid and it was $100. When I got there luckily they had somehow overbooked and said they'd refund my money....