Arlington Hotel Wildwood

... our arrival in Nassau on Friday.

Day 6; welcome to Nassau, Bahamas

Land! After 6 days at sea I am excited to see the tall buildings of the atlantis resort on the horizon!! The weather is nice and warm already at 0730 with clear skies and calm seas, this really has been a great crossing! Carla and I and pre packing which means all the items we know we will not need are getting packed now and the rest will get packed this evening. It’s bitter sweet knowing that by ...

... with puddles, rain and dark clouds. Did this stop us and send us back to a warm, dry bed? Oh no it did not. We (ON OUR LATE DAY) got our umbrella and walked to the beach/wet dirt.

Then we learned the lesson of scouting. Had we scouted our journey the day before, we'd have seen that the ocean shore was a good 1/4 mile away from the boardwalk. We also would have seen that this is not a shelling beach, a toothing beach, a ...

I've been wanting to visit the European Christmas Markets for several years now, but my husband was reluctant - he's not a fan of the cold! But this year he relented. I'm approaching one of those "milestone" birthdays, and frankly, I would rather travel than have a party, so this year we are going!

We got brochures in the mail from a number of different companies featuring Christmas Time Cruises. I also ...

Mom and I had a great time relaxing at the beach for a few days. We got in by about 1:30 or so on Sunday. We then had a lazy afternoon getting some food and exploring town a bit. Our inn provided afternoon tea everyday at 3:30. Got the best recipe ever for a new Peanut butter/Chocolate cookie I can't wait to try.

Monday we hit the beach all day and I definitely ...

... my dad came bursting in and grabs Breaking Dawn and threw it on the ground and the pages completely came out if the cover and ripped some pages. Then he turned out the light and it black so i got up and turned on the light to find the book laying there in a million diffent pieces so i walked out of the room stormed down the stairs and said 'Dad why did you do this?' he ignored me and my mom came to me and told me that she could fix ...

... 10kts plus...feeling pretty macho. So by 1100 we turn south east for the 40 mile run down the Delaware. Then the current turned foul and we were pulled down to close to 5kts. I looked again at the tide table and I could not understand why. It showed were were on an ebb and we should be doing well.

Suffice it to say, we fought this current until 2-3 in the afternoon and all of a sudden I stated seeing 9kts on the ...

... have been renovated and restored, with all their elaborate details highlighted by multi-candy-colour paintwork and their gardens beautifully planted with flowers in the summer. It all looks really pretty and appealing and its now back to being a very upmarket vacation resort.

The house we are renting isn't on the beach and it isn't one of the gorgeous gingerbread Victorians, (although who ever decorated it went mad with pink and roses - but mostly on ...

... they are counting on that. (If you received a ticket on Saturday afternoon the mail won't go out until Monday anyway). This only further agravates the situation because you would then be notified of the late fees that would be acruing even as you tried to pay-up by mail. So my advice if you are visiting any small shore community but not staying in that town, don't assume that no sign means parking is allowed... Don't count on anyone saying anything ...

Leah came down to meet me and Andy in Rehoboth Beach, DE before packing up the car and hitting the road. Since the weather was so nice, we decided to take the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel to enjoy the scenery that surrounds it. Somewhere along the way (maybe 3 hours into the 16 hr car ride, the heat stopped working. I later was told by a mechanic that I was at the boiling/freezing point for my radiator fluid or something...makes sense now). Our ride down wasn't ...

Labor Day. Three Day Weekend. NEW JERSEY SHORE. Woohoo! My parents drove down from Northern Jersey. Silke and I drove up from Washington, DC. The weather was perfect. It was a nice chance to relax in the sun and surf.