M&R's Vacation Stories

  link to photo album  Saturday July 20 Our new friends we had met at a food and beer tasting invited us to join them on a trip to Costa Rica, one of them had been before and wanted to do the adventure again. Seemed like something Rebe and I would enjoy so we said yes. After our direct flight to San Jose, we were met by our bus and taken 3 hours into the jungle, which after looking at the map was only 40 direct miles from the airport. This is slated to be an adventure trip with kayaking, rafting, hiking and zip lining. O ur first hotel actually didn't have a/c, and while it's not as hot as Houston it was definitely above 80F so this first night of sleep was interesting... Our guide came to the hotel at 7pm to give us a run down on the schedule and to eat dinner. Our guide for the week is Henry, also known as Ninja for some weird reason. First day started tomorrow at 9. View of the hotel campus Sunday July 21 After eating breakfast at 8am, we were picked up at 9am to go kayaki...

Link to photo album Northern Europe Cruise - April 2024 Bordeaux - Place de la Bourse Day 9 April 28 Day 9 was the first true day of the cruise, but the day was spent traveling from Lisbon, Portugal to Bilboa, Spain. While it seems close on land it was actually going to take the boat 2 days to get there, and thus we had a entire day to ourselves on the boat (along with the other 2500 people). We ended up missing breakfast at one of the restaurants because we slept in and again had to venture into the buffet.  As I noticed on Day 8, the buffet seemed like an area were all the old people congregate, maybe it’s not just that the old people were congregating at the buffet and moreso that the average age on the boat is 65+.  This isn’t really a bad thing, but when walking around you do notice old people blocking your way, everywhere.  Sorry but you’re reading this blog, you get to hear my gripes as it’s heathy for me to vent.  The rest of the day was us hanging out and no...