June arrived and Danica and I had a weekend trip planned for New York! Air Philippines had an incredible deal flying out of YVR.  They make a stop over at YVR and let a whole bunch of people off and then load up all the empty seats.  We had a 2pm departure. The flight…

August seems like a strange time to leave Vancouver as it is truly the best time of the year, but leave we did.  We were Hawaii bound for 10 days.  Leaving YVR is always easy, it’s a really amazing airport- off we took at amost 6 hours later we were in Hawaii.  We picked up…

Monday morning we awoke to a hazy, humid, hot morning.  Our last day in NY 😦  We got ready and checked out- leaving your stuff with the doorman.  First stop the Empire State Building.  We were there early- and avoided all the tour buses.  We paid our $ 35 each and head up to the…

Sunday the sun was out and it was hot and muggy- this is what I figured the weather NY would be. Heading to the Tasty’s again for a quick breakfast and then the Union Station Subway station.  We bought another day pass and we were Brooklyn bound.  First stop was the Dumbo area, but we…

Saturday the weather was nice and hot again- but with no humidity.  We had a quick breakfast to oatmeal at Tasty’s around the corner from our hotel. Then we made our way to the Subway station at Union square for a jaunt down the island of Manhattan to Ground Zero.  Arriving we immediately saw the…

After a week of training for work in Minnesota, I caught a flight to JFK, to meet up with my hubby and spend 4 days in this city! Flying into JFK at night was pretty amazing, we flew over the city and the lights from Times Square were glowing like a beacon down below.  I…

First week of August and our annual trip to the Oregon coast! We decided not to leave on the Friday night as we usually do, due to the fact that we always seem to get stuck in traffic in Seattle and spend 7 hours doing a 4 hour trip (normally staying at the Red Lion…

Monday we awoke to a cloudy, chilly Monday, but we were in search of the bus to the Golden Gate Bridge, a long walk later we found a bus that would take us there. We were dropped in the parking lot and started walking over the bridge- a chilly walk, but so beautiful. We walked…

Sunday was the day we crossed the Bay.  We had bought our Alcatraz tickets a few weeks before after a hotel breakfast, we walked straight down North Beach to pier 39.  An expensive coffee at the Alcatraz coffee bar and then we were herded into line for our 10am sailing.  The ride over was very…

Saturday we woke to a little cloudiness.  But we hopped on the trolley and off to Union Square for a little retail therapy.  Heidi had her heart set on a shirt that she had seen at Saks so that was our first stop.  We tracked the top down to the top floor- where she also…