Beep Beep, Beep Beep, Beep Beep I swiped my phone screen to turn off my alarm. It was 5:30am on Sunday, April 23rd, 2017. This is the moment I had been waiting for the past 5 months. My Empress of the Seas sailing was heading into Havana, Cuba for the very first time. I fumbled around my dark interior cabin to keep from waking my family and in the matter of 10 minutes I ...
Caribbean
San Juan, Puerto Rico Hotel Options
I hope everyone was able to sleep in a little on this lovely Sunday morning! This is officially the last blog piece I think (at least for now) on my past cruise from January. It is sad and true! However, at least I have another cruise coming up in less than two months now! Today's topic is going to be on the two different hotels that I stayed in pre and post cruise in San Juan, ...
Bienvenidos a San Juan, Puerto Rico!
Guess what day it is, Guess what day it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKtrv8eoeIs&t=14s I hope everyone is having a great day today. It is so hard to believe that this is the last video for the cruise series from my past cruise in January. This is definitely a bittersweet moment. I'm going to preface this post as an overview. I definitely did not hit everything San Juan has to ...
It’s Antigua! Come on Pretty Mama!
Well it is hard to believe that this will be my last island video from the itinerary. I will be doing a San Juan video next week and that will wrap up this cruise series. Antigua was our third stop on the itinerary and was a new port for me and my traveling companions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qfGHUZrt4 The original goal for this port was to snorkel a shipwreck that I had read ...
Barbados: Home of Rihanna and some Awesome Sea Turtles
We are officially over the half way mark of videos for the island series! It is so hard to believe but without further ado, here we go. Barbados to our younger cultures is more popularly known for R&B singer Rihanna. However, even though this was a Southern Caribbean cruise, Barbados is technically completely surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean! The port for Barbados is in its capitol, ...
Volcanoes, Waterfalls and Corals……Oh My!
Now when you look at the title I know you would think that I could possibly be referencing Hawaii, right? Well much to your surprise and mine at the time, St. Lucia offers a lot of these same features! Keep in mind it is nowhere near the types of volcanoes that you will see in Hawaii but it is a very nice change in island scenery compared to what you may be used to in the ...