M&R's Vacation Stories

- Friday July 1st -  There is always a story before you leave on vacation, usually it's you woke up had a nice breakfast and then take your time in getting to the airport... not me.  I like to play it dangerous (not usually on purpose) and this time was probably my best attempt to miss a flight.  A bit of back story, if you don't know I am a huge home theater fan and I have a decent setup nothing too outrageous but a few days before the trip my subwoofer went out.  Oh I was sad but of course I was going to fix it, repair it or replace it, and I was going to do that after we got back from vacation but a 2 day sale happened at Fry's.  It was a deep discount on one of the subwoofers I was actually considering and I couldn't let this pass.  Problem with the deal was I HAD to pick it up Friday or Saturday, but of course I was going to be gone on Saturday.  I left work a bit later than I wanted to, you know, trying to be a good employee and work that...

Since my baby left me for Christmas, it was not her choice but just the way the chips fell this year.  Instead of sitting alone for Christmas I thought it would be a good chance to go see my good friends that live across the pond in France.  But instead of meeting them in France we thought we'd visit a new place, a historic place, a place called Prague. I left Houston on the 22nd and after a few hours in the Frankfurt airport sleeping (and of course a few hours on two planes) I finally made my way to Prague on Wednesday evening. View from breakfast My good friend Corey (and his wife Donna) did a lot of the pre-planning of picking an awesome place for us to stay and working with the hotel to book a few dinners during the busy holiday season.  The place we stayed was very interesting, it is called Questenberk Hotel.  The hotel I believe used to be apart of the monastery that is directly behind the Hotel.  The hotel is very small, very quaint and the staff ...

For those who are uninterested in my ramblings: Dubai Album & Maldives Album Dubai We came up with the idea for the Maldives as a trip some time last year, originally we wanted to go to the Galapagos but after some research we thought it might be easier and less challenging to fly halfway across the world to Maldives.  Very logical right? While planning the logistics of such a large and time consuming trip, we discovered that the taking less connections by flying through Dubai would also give us a chance to tour Dubai.  So we incorporated a 30 hour layover in Dubai which would give us enough time to "see" the city.  We left Houston at 6pm on November 12th and flew direct to Dubai, just a short hop of over 13 hours (the return was almost 16 hours).  Landed in the evening Dubai local time, got out of the airport and to our hotel.  There was still time to get a glimpse of the city but since Rebe and I were a bit jet lagged we decided to ...