After a great day in Puerto Rico we are now on to our second stop of the cruise, St Martin. We went back and forth on the type of excursion we wanted to do in St. Martin and landed on the most popular excursion, which is called the Afternoon Beach Break. The excursion takes you to the very popular Orient Bay, which is supposed to be the nicest beach on the island.

But as you may have noticed we booked an “afternoon” excursion which meant we had the morning free. So in typical Joel & Jenn fashion we slept in until 9ish and barely made it up in time to order the breakfast room service. We have said it in past cruises but we never sleep better then when we are on a cruise. There is something too the fact that you are being rocked to sleep every night, and that we are lazy and love to sleep.

I have to be honest I kind of forgot we had stops on the cruise. We were both so relaxed after our day at sea that you forget you need to get off the ship once in a while. Today was our first stop and was San Juan, Puerto Rico. We didn’t arrive to San Juan until 3PM so we had sort of a half at-sea day. We woke up at 9:30 in the morning and ordered room service for breakfast. Jenn had pancakes and I had two eggs over easy.

Today started the first full day on the cruise. We woke up this morning to our room service at around 9AM. For breakfast Jenn got Belgian waffles and a banana smoothie and I had a ham and cheese omelet with a berry smoothie. This was another perk of the Aqua Class stateroom was having an expanded breakfast menu for room service and we took advantage of it.

Today marked the real start of the trip and boy were we on vacation mode. We finally fell asleep at around 11PM last night and neither of us woke up before 9:30 this morning. Even when we did wake up we took it easy for a while and missed the breakfast time frame at the hotel altogether. Fret not though, we walked a couple of blocks a little before 11 and loaded up on Starbucks.

We got back to the Epic not to long after, finished packing, and were on our way. Most of the time we have everything booked ahead of time. But since we are just traveling the two of us we figured most of the transportation could be figured out as we went, and so far that’s worked out nicely. We checked out from our room and headed down to the lobby, asked the valet for a taxi, and found one within a few minutes and were off to the cruise terminal.

It’s been almost a year since our three week Europe Trip, but Jenn and I are back in the traveling mode. Early this year we decided to take a break from Europe and try something new. We ended up booking a seven-day Celebrity Caribbean cruise out of Miami, FL.

The trip started on Thursday March 28th with a direct flight from LAX to Miami leaving at 11:50PM. So before we headed down to LAX we went and used one of our Travelzoo deals at the Hyatt Huntington Beach for a three-course meal. We ended up getting an amazing seat outside on the patio overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Jenn started with the soup of the day, the mushroom bisque, and I had a candy walnut salad. We both went with the filet for our main course and the crème brule for desert. It was an incredible meal and we had the patio to ourselves the whole time.

We are a few weeks removed, but in mid-February Jenn, Jake, Ally and I headed out on a quick weekend getaway to Las Vegas, NV. 

We left on Saturday, February 16th for two nights in a Panoramic Suite at the Vdara right on the Vegas Strip. We left right after Jake got off work (2PM), and he drove us in his new Lexus to our hotel. We did stop along the way at Trader Joes on the way and got wine, beer, and champagne to partake in on the trip.