Jenn made it. After a very busy four days of work in Dublin, she made it through and today was time to start our vacation in earnest. We woke up a little after 9 AM Jenn ordered us room service and I went down to the gym to get a run in. We both had eggs, mushrooms, and bacon for breakfast with pastries, orange juice, and coffee. It wasn’t anything to write home about but since it came with the room we enjoyed it before venturing out.

Let’s try this again. It was only seven weeks ago that we cut our first trip of the summer short with COVID. Luckily we’ve both since fully recovered and we’re ready to try this again. This time though we flipped it and I’m the one meeting Jenn on her work trip.

Outside of a few weekend trips to the Hamptons and a weekend in Washington DC and Philadelphia we haven’t done a lot of local travel. Our list of these getaways is still quite long with jaunts to Nantucket, Cade Cod, Newport, Boston, and Montreal still on the list. However, this past weekend, which also happened to be Juneteenth, we took advantage of the long weekend and drove from Manhattan to Niagara Falls, ending the trip in Toronto.

During the pandemic, all Jenn and I could think of was getting back to Paris. Since 2008 it has been our home away from home, the place we travel back to most frequently. One day we will probably live in Paris. But until that happens we will continue traveling to the city of lights. This time I had a work trip to London so Jenn got to Paris on Thursday, March 31st and I met her for a three-day weekend, and what a glorious weekend it was.

I woke up with such mixed emotions today. On one hand, I was so excited to be back in Abu Dhabi, and on the other, I also knew it was the last day of the trip. When we booked our two nights in Abu Dhabi we knew it was more of a stopover than an actual destination. Luckily having visited here two years ago there wasn’t anything we necessarily missed seeing then so today was all about just enjoying being back here.

I’m so sad to be writing this post because it means our time at the St. Regis Maldives has come to an end. We knew today would be a long day as our flight from Male to Abu Dhabi didn’t depart until 9 PM so we still had a close to a full day in paradise.