FROM LAWRENCE, WITH LOVE

As the year draws to a close, I always like to take a few moments to reflect on all my experiences over the past 12 months. As with most...

My First Airbnb Experience For someone from the Midwest, my experience with Airbnb started out pretty spectacularly. My parents, husband,...

Booking your first cruise can be incredibly overwhelming.  There are SO many options.  You have to choose a cruise line, a destination, a...

Day 1 means that we get to have our first look at the Liberty of the Seas.  This will be the largest ship that we’ve ever sailed on and...

On the first travel day, all 23 of us will be travelling to Ft. Lauderdale from various locations across the country. We’re hoping for...

So, it’s been quite a while since anything was posted to the BLOG.  Hopefully, that will change since I have a new iPad and will have...

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Day 4 will bring us to our first independent island – Turks & Caicos.  I don’t know much about Turks & Caicos, but hopefully, I’ll learn...

Day 3 of our Honeymoon will take us to Half Moon Cay, Bahamas.  This is the island that’s owned by the Carnival Corporation and is shared...

Day 2 of our Honeymoon will bring us boarding the Holland America ms Noordam for our 10-night cruise.  We’ve been looking forward to this...

We’ll be taking off bright and early the Monday after the wedding and heading for sunny Ft. Lauderdale, FL.  We’ve been to Ft. Lauderdale...

Unfortunately, our amazing cruise had to come to an end. . . Here’s the menu for our last night on the ship: For an appetizer, I had the...

Unfortunately, we didn’t really do anything exciting in St. Kitts.  By this time, we were pretty tired and decided to spend some time...

Here’s the menu: I love how the fried shrimp is listed as "Fried Shrimps".  Apparently, the menu author isn’t a native English speaker....

We had big plans in Antigua.  We were touring with Gordon of www.tourguidegordon.com and it was well worth the wait.  Gordon was actually...

Again, no menu photos. For starters on day 4, I had the Corn Chowder and the Cream of Broccoli Soup, which were both very good. Josh has...

Day 4 of the cruise was the best day BY FAR!  I had been looking forward to visiting St. Lucia since I first saw the photos of the Pitons...