Christie and Luke

DISCLAIMER – I am in no way biased one way or the other As most of you are painfully aware Christie went to the University of Texas at Austin for undergrad and she is a very proud alumni. I went to the University of Colorado at Boulder for my undergrad and I am a very [...]

The last stop on our cruise was in Cannes, France. At this point we were kind of looking for an easy going day and after speaking to some of the crew on the ship we decided to hit up the beach. Most of you have heard of the Cannes Film Festival so you can imagine [...]

The last stop in Italy was Livorno, Italy. What’s in Livorno you ask? I don’t know, we didn’t check it out. The nice thing about Livorno is that is is a port town that has access to some really cool places so it is pretty easy to skip over the city. The three places people [...]

Our second stop in Italy was in Rome and wow what a day. I have never been to Rome but I know there is a lot of stuff here and I want to see it all. We only have 12 hours in port and we need to take a hour long train ride to/from from [...]

The first place we were excited to go to was Capri which is an island located a short ferry ride aware from Naples, Italy. We got into port at 8:00 AM and we made our way to the ticket counter to get tickets to Capri which was about a 5 minute walk from our boat [...]

When we booked our cruise Christie was listing off the places the ship stopped. Malta, Naples, Rome, Florence and Cannes. I had heard of all of them except for Malta so I asked where that was and Christie responded “Huh, I have no idea, part of Sicily maybe?” so we fired up Google and figured [...]

We boarded the ship (Norwegian Cruise Lines Gem ship) around 2:30 on Sunday the 23rd and that was an experience in itself. We splurged for a suite on the ship so we were treated really well during during the on-boarding process. We were met by a concierge named Ryan that walked us to our room [...]

On our second to last day in Barcelona we decided to go to the Olympic stadium to check it out. We had these ambitious plans to get going and have a full day but we failed to set an alarm to wake up so we rolled out of bed at 11:30. After getting our “morning” [...]

Everything we heard about Barcelona before leaving for our honeymoon was positive so we were really excited to visit.  The first night we got in around 7 so we took a stroll from our hotel up the main avenue heading west from the Placa de Catalunya.  We headed up to the diagonal and then turned [...]

Literally. Most times people say “we were robbed” talking about how they were not given the full extent of something they believe should have been delivered or the referee made a bad call against their team, but we were literally robbed from right under our noses. Here is my side of the story as it [...]