Sunday, January 5, 2014

Time Capsule: Florida Vacation 2010

The idea behind the Time Capsule posts should be pretty self explanatory.  This post is about our 2010 Florida/Disney vacation, our first big vacation together as a couple!
 
 
 The trip came about when Brian was offered a three day Disney cruise trip through his job (at the time) and because the flights were paid for we decided to add a few days on in the beginning of the trip so we could have some time to explore Disney World. The first few nights we spent at the Holiday Inn on Hotel Boulevard and visited at Downtown Disney, Epcot and Animal Kingdom.
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
The day before the cruise we relocated to the Polynesian resort and attended a slightly awkward sponsored dinner with the company Brian worked for and included other recipients of the free cruise. There was one guy who kept staring and me and insisting that he had met me before. I think I would remember meeting a semi-attractive guy named Kelly back in college though I could be wrong... 
It was nice to have those extra days in Florida but by the time the cruise part came around we might have been slightly vacationed out.  Regardless we still had a great time visiting the Bahamas and Disney's private island and gorging ourselves on the five star cuisine.  We were very fortunate not to get sea sick from the major wind and waves that caused the ship to pitch and roll (heave and sway?) like crazy. Even the servers lost their balance at times and people who had been on cruises many times before commented on how it was the worst ...ship movements... they had ever experienced.

  
Looking back on the pictures and footage I think it would be fun to go back to Disney World again and Brian agrees.   My favorite moments of the trip were the amazing food (both at Disney World and on the cruise), swimming with sting rays on Castaway Cay (though the weather could have been a little warmer...) and getting engaged!!  Brian says his favorite memory was the excitement of getting engaged (aw).
 
 
Here is a little video I FINALLY finished editing of our trip. Enjoy! 
 
                                            
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday, January 2, 2014

I love popchips!

 
I am dedicating this post to my favorite flavor of popchips: thai sweet chili potato.  A little sweet a little spicy, soo delicious. Unfortunately no stores around here (that I know of) sell this flavor so I am forced to buy them in bulk from Amazon.
 


Such is life.
 
Hopefully we will have better storage space in our new house. I will need a huge area to put all of the bulk food and products I plan on purchasing. Hello Costco membership!
p.s. Brian-where is your chip dedication post?