We arrived in Milan early on a Wednesday morning. We couldn’t get into our hotel room until much later, so with little to no sleep the night before, we stored our luggage and headed out into the city. The hotel was very close to the Duomo di MIlano (Cathedral of Milan) so we thought we should check it out. My husband bought tickets online for us to go … Continue reading Milan, Italy
I have been on several battleships, but this one was the coolest. Why? You can go almost everywhere inside. It housed 2500 people and you can see that it is its own city on a ship. The other cool thing about the park is that you not only get to explore the U.S.S. Alabama, but you can go inside a submarine, wander outside and look … Continue reading U.S.S. Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
This is the fourth all inclusive resort that we have stayed in. It is the first in the Dominican Republic. Two of them were in Mexico, in the Yucatán area, and the other was in Costa Rica. We have only paid for one of the resorts out of pocket. The other three we used our points. All the resorts were considered five star resorts, but this is the first one … Continue reading Hyatt Zilara Cap Cana: all inclusive resort review
This was the first day of our trip that we had no obligations (besides leaving for our flight at 3:30pm from the hotel). We could do whatever we wanted. We had said good bye to our group leader and group members the night before. We woke up around 8:30am and wandered down to the breakfast buffet. It was the best one we had seen all trip. There was a guy … Continue reading Prince Mohamed Ali Palace, Cairo, Egypt
We had a flight at 9:30am back to Cairo. We only had to go through security twice this time and we didn’t have to line up by gender. We were patted down by the same gender as us though. The flight itself was uneventful. We got a water and an apple juice and I looked out at the vast amount of dirt of the land. It was beautiful and … Continue reading Return to Cairo
We had the option to take a hot air balloon ride early this morning, but we decided against it. The rest of our group went and had a good time. We waited for them in the bus. The view of all the balloons up in the air was pretty neat to see. I’m glad we didn’t go because they didn’t really go very far and it seemed very smoggy … Continue reading Valley of the Kings
Breakfast was very early because the rest of the groups on the boat went to visit something in Edfu. Our tour company does not recommend going there because it take 30 minutes to walk there or you can ride a horse, but they do not treat the horses well and our company will not pay for it because of that. I read that it was not a … Continue reading Cruise through Lock and Karnak Temple
We boarded the ship to eat a buffet lunch after our visit to Abu Simbel. All the cruise ships look the same from the outside. They are docked together and you often have to walk through at least one, if not two or three, to get to yours. The insides of the ship are totally different. Ours is middle of the road. It’s not extravagant like a few … Continue reading Nile Cruise and Kom Ombo
We woke up at 3:30am in order to take a bus to Abu Simbel, which is in the middle of nowhere. The bus ride consisted of a lot of sand views (when I was awake). It took about 4 hours to get there, after only one stop to stretch our legs. There are actually two temples. One is for King Ramses II and the other is for one of … Continue reading The Great Temple of Abu Simbel
We had to wake up at 4am to leave for the airport at 5. (I feel like I’m never going to sleep on this trip.) The ride to the airport took about 40 minutes (our bodyguard came with us). When we arrived only passengers could enter the airport so there were a bunch of people outside waiting. We had to put our bags through security before entering the … Continue reading Aswan
Bonney Voyage 