5/1/2016 – Columbus
Trip to Columbus April 2016 Mom and I traveled to Columbus to visit the Crew out there. Kelley’s team was playing two games that were close enough to stay in Columbus and still catch her games. We took a vacation…
Smallworld Photos
Collect Memories, Not things
Smallworld Photos
Collect Memories, Not things
Shawn
6/7/2015 – Naples
This morning we arrived in Naples for our last full cruise day. It’s very nice to be able to go back to your room and go to sleep and wake up in a new place. No packing and unpacking, same…
6/6/2015 – Day at Sea
Today was a day at sea and we spent it doing lots of errands like getting cash to tip the waiters and housekeeping folks, straightening out our airport transfers that were wrong when we got them, and collecting our passports.…
6/5/2015 – Athens
On Friday morning we pulled into the port of Piraeus the harbor for the city of Athens. We docked just before sunrise. The port of Piraeus, City of Athens We had an early start to the morning as we…
6/4/2015 – Santorini
We went to Santorini today. We decided that instead of taking the cruise ship excursions we would instead book a trip on our own. Conrad worked with a team called Santorini Sea Kayak to book a fantastic excursion that had…
6/3/2015 – Rhodes Greece
Today we pulled into Rhodes Greece just as the sun was coming up. Sunrise over Rhodes We had an early wake up to join an excursion to the ancient town of Lindos where there is a large site of…
6/2/2015 – Kusadasi Turkey and the Ancient City of Ephesus
We pulled into the port city of Kusadasi Turkey this morning. Here’s a picture before sunrise. Port city of Kusadasi Turkey We then took a bus to the ancient city of Ephesus. Here is the Wikipedia description of the…
6/1/2015 – Mykonos
Today we woke up just before the sun came up over the hills of Mykonos and we watched the boat dock in the harbor. You could see all of the white houses and hotels dotting the hills above the water…
5/31/2015 – a day at sea
Today is a day at sea so we took the opportunity to catch up on the blog, and to edit some pictures and get some other things done. Not a lot of pictures or other interesting things for today. We…
5/30/2015 – Joining the Cruise
Our cruise ship started in Rome, but we are joining on the second day in Messina. This allowed us to go a little early and visit with Conrad’s family. It was beautiful and very fun to get to see them…
5/29/2015 – Messina
Before we went to bed last night we took some pictures of the town from the house at night. View from the house at night. When we got up this morning we went into town to have some Granita and…
5/28/2015 – Messina/Mortelle
Our first full day in Messina was Thursday. We hadn’t set an alarm and so we slept very late. When we woke we had breakfast. At the airport Rino had met us with a food called Arancini which Conrad loves.…