Engagement Trumps Birthdays

The first 24 hours in NYC were epic. It started out at dinner with Jon to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary and ended with a Saturday brunch with the besties celebrating our engagement. From this: to this: to this: Rewind to the beginning…we got into NY around 4pm.  We were staying at a hotel because Jon’s parents were [...]

Packing Sucks

As you know from the last post I’m in NYC right now. I’m home for about 25 days so that’s a lot of clothes and other things. Somehow all of this Fit into this silver suitcase I brought about 25 shirts, 6 pants, 10 dresses, running gear, 4 pairs of shoes and other random things. [...]

Home Is Where The Heart Is

You hear that phrase over and over but no matter how many times you hear it it’s still true. I’m heading home for a month and I couldn’t be more excited to see my family and friends.  My 27th (wow) birthday is on Saturday so I can celebrate it at home which makes me ecstatic to say [...]

A Weekend In Gibraltar

I gave a hint to where we spent our weekend here and if you guessed Gibraltar then you were right! We wanted to get away for the weekend and go to a plane neither of us have been to so we decided on Gibraltar.  Our hotel was in La Linea, Spain but it was a 10 [...]

Florence, Italy: 6 Years Later – Day 3 in Pisa

In case you missed it: Day 1 Day 2 We flew out of Pisa airport so we hopped on a train from Santa Maria Novella to Pisa for the day so we could explore the city. Here’s a video of the view from the train going from Florence to Pisa. It was raining in Pisa for the [...]

Florence, Italy: 6 Years Later

I have been putting off this post because there is so much to say I’m not sure how to say it all and not bore my readers. I think I’ve come to the conclusion that this weekend will have to be broken up into several posts.  Hope you enjoy them! I studied abroad in Florence [...]

55cm x 40cm x 20cm (22in x 16in x 8in)

Those dimensions represent the strict carryon baggage allowance rules for Ryanair. I don’t remember these rules 5 years ago when I flew them but I know they are strict about them now so I had a little anxiety finding a bag and making sure it wasn’t bigger than the allotted size. We are only going away for 3 [...]

Did I mention…

that I got a free upgrade on my flight back to London?! I was greeted with a glass of champagne, had crab cakes for dinner and a fruit and cheese platter for dessert.  I put the seat down so it was a bed, fluffed my real pillow, wrapped myself in the warm duvet and the next thing [...]

A & J’s Big Adventure – Part 4/Plan B

Plan B was to book a flight to NY from Paris and spend a couple of days there as well.  The next flight out was on Wednesday so we had 2 days in Paris! Paris doesn’t need words….only photos. On Wednesday morning we successfully flew from Paris to New York and enjoyed our time with [...]

A & J’s Big Adventure – Part 3

Since it was looking like this outside and our train was supposed to leave in a couple of hours we were getting nervous. We kept checking the Eurostar twitter and they were canceling trains left and right but ours was still scheduled to leave Disney at 7:30pm.  We got to the train station a little [...]