Saturday, October 5, 2024
Rachel's Bachelorette Trip | Disney [Day 2] Magic Kingdom
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Rachel's Bachelorette Trip | Disney [Day 1] Animal Kingdom & Steakhouse 71
As Rachel's sister and Maid of Honor, planning Rachel's Bachelorette Trip was the MOH duty that I was most looking forward to. Rachel knew exactly what she wanted to do for her Bachelorette - a 3-Night Cruise and a day at Disney with her girls.
On our Christmas Cruise on Jewel of the Seas, Rachel and I decided to go to Walt Disney World a few days earlier to have some fun sister time on the front end of her Bachelorette.
Since I live in California, my preferred flight to Orlando is a red-eye so that I arrive early in the morning and don't miss out on any fun (otherwise, the soonest I'd get in would be around 4 PM on a flight that leaves at 7 AM). I have Idiopathic Hypersomnia, so I can fall asleep anywhere, but to get better quality sleep, I travel with a travel pillow, eye mask, noise canceling headphones, and a foot hammock (because my legs are so short!).
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Planning Rachel's Bachelorette Cruise (and Disney World!)
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Jewel of the Seas - [Day 8] Disembarkation in San Juan
It's always a bittersweet moment, to pull back the stateroom curtains and find yourself back where you started. We had returned to San Juan, Puerto Rico. I snapped a few photos, then scrambled to get ready and pack up our remaining items.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Jewel of the Seas - [Day 7] St. Maarten
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Jewel of the Seas - [Day 6] St. Vincent
Monday, March 25, 2024
Jewel of the Seas - [Day 5] Tobago
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Jewel of the Seas - [Day 4] Trinidad
On Day 4 of our Southern Caribbean Cruise on Jewel of the Seas, we docked in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
We ate breakfast in the main dining room this morning. The host recognized Stove and seated us at our own table of six. Throughout breakfast, several different dining room managers came over to our table to ask us how we liked our table last night. I'm not sure what Stove said or did to get this celebrity treatment, but I'm not sure I want to know.
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Jewel of the Seas - [Day 3] Barbados
On Christmas morning, we docked in Bridgetown, Barbados. We had made plans to meet for breakfast in the main dining room at 9AM, but discovered that morning that the dining room closed at 9AM. Judy and Stove "just happened" to be ready early and went to the MDR for breakfast. The rest of us headed up to the Windjammer.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Jewel of the Seas - [Day 2] Christmas Eve at Sea
On Christmas Eve, we woke up to a surprise from Judy!
Judy and Stove used these magnetic dry erase boards to leave messages to Stove's siblings on their New England cruise on NCL in September. NCL has a no door decorations rule (loosely enforced), and one of his sisters was actually told that she had to remove the whiteboard from her door. Royal Caribbean allows door decorations, so no issues here!
I brought Christmas stockings from Amazon for our doors that Aaron and I hung up with magnetic hooks.