• Travel

    Carnival Horizon 2022 – La Romana

    May 13, 2022 - By 

    Here’s probably my favorite day off the Carnival Horizon. The day we were in La Romana, Dominican Republic we got there around a 11, so we had time in the morning to go to ‘sit down’ breakfast. It was nice to not have to get up super early and just be able to go a little slower that morning. Here we are waiting for clearance to get off the ship. We were all excited for an excursion day. No renting a car in the D.R.!! The excursion was called Monkeyland & Dominican Flavors for Families. We loaded an air-conditioned bus…

  • Life

    Monthly Digest – April 2022

    May 8, 2022 - By 

    Traveling at the end of the month really messes me up when it comes to blogging! Here we are for another Monthly Digest! LIFE Happenings Why is that at the end of every month I can’t remember all that went on!?!?! That’s the exact reason I write these posts. Haha! -Saw Toto & Journey in concert in New Orleans -Bridal shower for our friend’s finance -Easter -Watched my nephew play LaX Loving when we get to eat lunch with Drew. Happy for safe and fun travels we had in April. Excited for a crazy busy month. Dreading change. I’ll just…

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    iSpy #70

    May 7, 2022 - By 

    Plant – quarterly Inside Out This was a hard one. Kayleigh is both inside and out. Split This weed split into a Y shape. **shrugs** at this difficult prompt. LOL Green Close up of a snake plant Your Choice We picked up 2 full wheel-borrows of pinecones and sticks before Rob mowed the yard today! Back…is..hurting… You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter I’d love you to join along with us next week! Challenge yourself this week to step out of your comfort zone. Get low, go high, change your angle, get close, back up.…

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    Watching & Listening – April 2022

    May 6, 2022 - By 

    In April, we kind of just held steady with all the same shows. We are trying to catch up on our DVR from being gone 2+ weeks in March and April. Here is my previous posts to show what we’re catching up on… January 2022 – February 2022 – March 2022 I have started watching some new YouTube channels, but I’ll share those in a YouTube post at some point. In case you missed my Spring YouTube watching post. Music In April I listed to a lot more of Journey. I already listen to them quite a bit on the…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Day in Bonaire

    May 5, 2022 - By 

    I really hope you’re enjoying all these cruise posts. Travel posts do take quite a long time to put together, but I love having them to look back on and remember our time. Today I’m sharing about our day in Bonaire. Views from our ship as we wait to get the all clear 12°8’53.34″ N 68°16’39.76″ W Bonaire is an island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is Kralendijk, near the ocean on the lee side of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao form the ABC islands, 80 km (50 miles) off the coast of Venezuela.…

  • Life

    Currently::May 2022

    May 4, 2022 - By 

    I didn’t realize it was time for another Currently post until I saw my fellow bloggers posting them today! So here we are! ::consuming:: Last week I was consuming lots of BBQ and sweet stuff. This week I need to be consuming all the healthy things, but I’m not. ::feeling:: a bit overwhelmed with all the things. Work wise, it’s time to hire for summer and start writing my self-evaluation that will be due soon. Life wise, graduation time and all the things that go with graduation and company. We have a wedding we’re attending and helping with the weekend…

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    Books I Read – April 2022

    May 4, 2022 - By 

    Last month, I wasn’t thrilled with the books I read. It’s just crazy how I can be so enamored by a cover or a 2 sentence description and then as I read I feel really disconnected with the characters and/or the story line. Admittedly I’m bad about going into a book blindly without doing too much research, because I don’t want any spoilers. Also, since trying to start reading again, I find I’m having a hard time rating books. I’m not sure what justifies the top rating of 5 at this point. I don’t fee like I’ve read a 5…

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    iSpy #69

    May 2, 2022 - By 

    Hey iSpyers! I have been out of town this last week and I had hoped to be have time today to start looking through my photos to post, but I am slammed. I figured I’d go ahead and get this posted even without pics. I will come back at come point this week and post my pics. Hope everyone is doing well! On Your Plate – quarterly Kansas City BBQ Outside Walking around the Gateway Arch outside is such a beautiful place. Starts with T T is for Trunk. Artwork made from tree stumps/trunks. Where You Are Now? If you’ve…

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    iSpy #68

    April 25, 2022 - By 

    along the way Had no idea what to do for this one. I had thought about snapping a shot as we drove to or from Louisiana last weekend, but I’m not sure I took any or at least can’t find them right now. Here’s a pic of some interesting hot sauce I found as we shopped along the way to find some crawfish… black and white Missy is black and white. overdue This one was hard, but we finally were able to visit family in Baton Rouge, so I would say that getting these 2nd cousins together was overdue! branched…

  • Travel

    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Afternoon in Aruba

    April 19, 2022 - By 

    Today I’m sharing my final post about Aruba for this cruise and there is still a lot to cover so its gonna be long. 🙂 After leaving Arikok National Park, it was time to plug my phone into the radio so we could follow along with the app I had purchased and listen to descriptions of places to drive by or stop at. We have used the GyPSy Guide app before while traveling and loved it. However they don’t have one for Aruba, so after some research we decided on the Action Tour Guide Aruba (The Full tour). For this…

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    iSpy #67

    April 18, 2022 - By 

    WorkSpace – quarterly Out of the blue I’ll write more about this past weekend (hence the reason this post is late getting up.) We were in New Orleans Friday and we spent the afternoon walking around. This baby goat just appeared out of the blue. He was so cute. Starts with B B is for Band…Journey to be exact. The reason we were in New Orleans on Friday. Apple Your Choice Don’t know why but I love this shot I snapped while walking around New Orleans. Just a windowscape showing off all the local stuff. You are invited to the…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Arikok National Park

    April 16, 2022 - By 

    Who knew I’d be writing so many posts about Aruba, but I really just think breaking our day down into smaller chunks make for better posts. I hope you agree! So today I’m sharing about the time we spent in Arikok National Park, Aruba. We came through the SouthEast entrance Vader Piet. 12°27’58.122″ N 69°53’33.612″ W (Just a reminder some of the pictures will have GPS coordinates that link to that location on Google Maps in case you want to go to that spot on future travels. If one of the pictures doesn’t have coordinates after it, it means its…

  • Life

    Books I Read – March 2022

    April 15, 2022 - By 

    I have finally (I hope) found a routine that is working pretty well for reading listening to audio books. Something made me look at the eBooks available for my local pubic library and then I noticed audio books. I ended up checking out this first one and have found listening to them while I get ready for work in the morning and trying to make sure I get through an hour each day seems to be a habit, I’m enjoying and can stick with. I’ll Be There (But I’ll Be Wearing Sweatpants): Finding Unfiltered, Real-Life Friendships in This Crazy, Chaotic…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Pet Cemetery on Aruba Beach

    April 14, 2022 - By 

    I’m continuing on with details of our day in Aruba. After leaving our lunch spot, we passed Baby Beach. 12°24’55.848″ N 69°52’57.264″ W Not too far from there as we continued along the coast we happened across a huge Pet Cemetery. Around 1924, Lago Oil & Transport Co. was building Lago Colony now known as Seroe Colorado for their employees of the oil refinery in San Nicholas, the people started burying their pets here in this secluded place. Through the years the burying of pets has continued and it now stretches almost a mile long. (source) 12°25’15.642″ N 69°52’19.662″ W…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Lunch in Aruba

    April 13, 2022 - By 

    We ended up stopping for lunch at the Rum Reef Bar & Grill. (On Google Maps) This is a modern, clean building located on Baby Beach with beautiful views as well as an infinity pool. View from our table. Rob’s step dad, David, ordered the Monkey Juice (Dark Rum, White Rum, Crème de Banana, ½ Banana, Baileys, Coco Lopez) and then Rob and I decided to share one. It was so yummy! The special of the day was the Mahi Mahi. I got the platter. Rob got the Mahi Mahi sandwich. Really fresh and delish! Click to menu and prices…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Morning in Aruba

    April 12, 2022 - By 

    I am so excited to be talking about our first port of call on our cruise. Aruba!! As I wrote this post, I realized there was just too many details and pictures to share so I’m breaking it down into multiple posts. Let’s jump on in. We were scheduled to arrive at the port in Aruba at 9am. However we arrive and were cleared a little early. The four of us soon had eaten breakfast and were ready about the time they announced we could disembark. We had rented a jeep for the day. Rob had done lots of research…

  • Life

    Monthly Digest – March 2022

    April 11, 2022 - By 

    Here we are nearly halfway through April and I realized I hadn’t written my monthly digest for March. So here we are… LIFE Happenings We celebrated Alex’s birthday. Still can’t believe my baby is 18! Did a few rounds of physical therapy for my right shoulder and arm. https://acameraandacookbook.com/week-8-9-2022/ Week 10 Loving the weather right now. Not ready for it to get really hot though. Happy I’ve started listening to Audio books. I’ve got a couple from March I still need to write about. Excited that Auburn baseball is doing so well. Dreading nothing in April that I can think…

  • Life - Tech & Entertainment

    What I Watched on YouTube on the Regular (Spring 22)

    April 10, 2022 - By 

    In 2021, I did quarterly posts about the channels I had been watching. Fall 2020 |  Summer 2021 |  Winter/Spring 2021 |  Fall 2021 I found there’s a core set of channels I watch on a regular basis. As soon as a new video comes out, I watch it. Today I decided to share the channels I watch like TV Shows and then throughout the year, I will share new channels I’m watching or favorite videos, etc. Travel Kara and Nate [2.98M subscribers – 829 Videos] – Kara and Nate are quite popular and for good reason. Their videography and editing is on…

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    iSpy #66

    April 9, 2022 - By 

    Selfie – Quarterly Covered Covered in beautiful flowers Beneath Beneath the blanket of clouds Among Aubie among the crowd at the baseball game. Choose Anything (same vantage point – Monthly) – I just realized when I bumped this down on the calendar we didn’t do one for March so this one will count for March and we’ll do another at the end of April that will count as the April one. “March” February January You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter I’d love you to join along with us next week! Challenge yourself this week…

  • Travel

    Carnival Horizon – Time on the Ship

    April 8, 2022 - By 

    Happy Thursday, everyone! Today I’m continuing my posts about our cruise that we took last month. If you missed our misadventures getting to Miami you can read about that here>>>>Getting to Miami. Today I’m sharing about the time while on the ship, including embarkation day, evenings after being at port, and of course, the fun days at sea. Here’s a few details on the cruise: Carnival Horizon 8 Day Itinerary Miami > 2 Days at Sea > Aruba > Bonaire > La Romana > Amber Cove > Day at Sea > Miami Cabin 2220 (Port hole) My in laws (Alice…