Day 5 – How About Wine? Today we were in the Wachau Valley! With two stops. One in Durnstein, and later in the day we would stop in Grein. Ally and I had chosen the hike to the fortress. The description was off on this one as...
Day 4 – Biking in Vienna We were in Vienna today! And we were biking around the city! We ate breakfast and then went to get our bikes. The forecast was great for the day! Except it was sprinkling a little bit when we got up there...
Day 3 – We Have – Beer? Today we were in no rush to get up, we weren’t reaching our port – Bratislava, until the afternoon. We started the day with a yummy breakfast: We went through our first lock! Look how close we get! Then we had some...
Day 2 – Cruise Managers Rock! We woke up pretty early, but slept really well! I checked my air tag and my suitcase was in Frankfurt! Yay! Getting closer! Today we were doing a tour of Budapest. They moved the ship early in the morning to closer to...
Day 1 - Boarding With No Luggage The day had come! Boarding day! But with one wrinkle. The day before, after a flight from Denver to Toronto to Frankfurt, I landed in Budapest! I thought to check my air tag while we were taxiing and realized...
River Cruising with Nat Geo What: A River Cruise with Nat Geo on AmaWaterways When: June 24-July 1, 2023 Why: When Disney invited me to try a National Geographic adventure with them, I was immediately in. Immediately yes! I’d done a river cruise with AmaWaterways before and I...
Today I woke up at 7:30 and we had breakfast delivered at 8:30. While sitting in our room with a hot breakfast set out of us on our table with a tablecloth, Ally declared we had made a horrible mistake giving her a concierge experience. There...
Today I woke up to an alarm at 7:30! But I was actually sleeping hard up until then. We got ready and had breakfast in the lounge. Then we rope dropped Castaway Cay! As we do. We walked to the second tram stop, and took the tram to...
I woke up at 7 today. Way too excited to sleep! Stephen went running and Ally and I watched Beauty and the Beast. Ally had a massage at 8, so we ate breakfast in the lounge. She declared these alone to be worth the price of concierge. Then...
Everyone arrived Saturday or Sunday, and we woke up Monday morning ready to go! My parents were coming from a Disney resort so they were on a transfer. Four of us had Covid recently and all had recovery letters! Ally was the only one who...
What: A Four Night Cruise On the Disney Dream When: March 14-28, 2022 Why: This was a makeup vacation. For once, Ally’s spring break from grad school lined up with Olivia’s spring break from teaching, which lined up with Chase having enough vacation to go somewhere! So...
Day 8 – Tortoises are the Grandest of Finales! Today was our last day onboard. But what a day it was! I think they save the tortoises for the last day because they are so awesome. We were up at 6:45, showered, and had breakfast. One of the...
Day 7 – Civilization! Good morning, world! We slept really well! They brought us our breakfast. Then we went down to the room for showers. We saw some sea lions out our verandah! Today we took zodiacs to a town! This was the first civilization we had seen since...
Day 6 - Glamping in the Galapagos Today we woke up at 6:30 and had room service. We chose a beach walk today where “maybe” we would see flamingos! We dropped our lifejackets in these bags: I don’t think you can ever have too many ship pictures. Found them! We...
Day 5 – Lava and Bad Choices Mistakes were made today. We had breakfast at 7. Today’s afternoon excursion that we chose included over 300 stairs! Oh my! The morning excursion was a hike through the lava fields! Which were super cool. Our guide asked if we wanted to get...