Once we got all of our things settled into the hotel, I wandered around and petted some cats and dogs, and Andy checked out our hot tub and mini pool. The Residence Suites had a beautiful deck overlooking the caldera and a cute little front porch. You can see really beautiful pictures of the hotel […]
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Santorini, Greece
Santorini was, hands down, my favorite part of the entire trip. The island was magnificent and more beautiful than I imagined. Santorini is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, roughly 120 miles from the Greece mainland. It’s about 35 square miles and sits essentially inside an old dormant volcano known as the “caldera.” […]
Honeymoon Day 2 Part II: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Changing of the Guards, and Dinner at Ορίζοντες (Orizontes)
TEMPLE OF OLYMPIAN ZEUS After prying me away from Katrina the Kitty, Andy and I continued our exploration of Athens and made our way towards the Temple of Olympian Zeus, near the base of the Acropolis across the main thoroughfare of Athens. One section of the Temple of Olympian Zeus Construction of the Temple began […]
Honeymoon Day 2 Part I: Exploring Athens, the Acropolis, the Plaka District, and My First Animal Friend
ATHENS Athens deserves a little bit of a historical rundown in order to understand its expansive history and ancient monuments. Before we left, the few guidebooks and websites we read described Athens as over-filled with concrete apartment complexes, unbearable traffic jams, and unrelenting clouds of smog known as nefos. While Andy and I did discover […]
Honeymoon Day 1: Hotel Grand Bretagne and the Rooftop Terrace Restauraunt
Our flight left on August 18th very early in the morning, about 1:30 a.m., so naturally we had to be at the airport at 9:30 p.m. the night before à la Andrew Baldock/George Huxtable style (Elsie remember….”Everyone is at the airport! It’s a Wednesday!“). We had an ungodly number of connections and there were multiple points […]
CHICAGO!
I fell in love with Chicago. I admit it. I couldn’t get over the liberal mecca. It was just so awesome. Andy and I stayed at the Drake Hotel near Michigan Ave and saw all of Chicago with Future Mama-in-Law, Future Papa-in-Law and Future Sister-in-Law. We spent the first day walking down the “magnificent mile.” […]
Big Island of Hawai’i Part II: Our Favorite Big Island Beaches and Dinner at Huggos
We spent the next day exploring some of our favorite beaches on the Big Island. Our #1 beach destination is Pololu Beach, a famous black sand beach located essentially at the end of Highway 270. The road ends at a parking lot and a large green pasture (with horses); to get to the black sand […]
Big Island of Hawai‘i Part I: Volcanoes National Park and the Highest Peak in Hawai’i, Mauna Kea
The first trip we took together as a couple was to the Big Island of Hawai‘i. Andy’s paralegal, Marja, kindly loaned us her condo for the week we were there. It was a beautiful place with a nice pool and a gorgeous beach area right across the street that had the most amazing sunsets! Beach […]