5 Things That Make Virgin Voyages Different – And Better – Than Other Cruise Lines
This past February, as the first Covid Omicron wave began to subside, the hubby and I had the opportunity to take a long-awaited cruise on brand new cruise line Virgin Voyages. We had originally booked the trip for 2020, and after having to delay because of Covid regulations twice, we were eager to see if […]
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Five Actually Useful Disney World Hacks to Have the Perfect Vacation
People tend to have a really love or hate relationship with Walt Disney World. For each diehard, visits multiple times a year, annual-passholder-even-though-they-live-out-of-state person out there, there’s also an equal number that feel like Disney takes all the fun out of vacationing through the need for meticulous advance planning. While I can certainly see both […]
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Trip Report: A Quick Getaway to Miami
Last week, the hubby and I were originally supposed to set sail on the new Virgin Voyages cruise ship out of Miami, but due to the ongoing pandemic, our cruise was sadly cancelled. However, as we’re never ones to turn down a vacation, we decided to keep the pre-cruise portion of our trip even if […]
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Trip Report: Celebrating my Mom’s Birthday in Denver
Last month, I had the opportunity to take a trip that COVID had lonnnnng delayed. In May of 2020, my mom was celebrating a milestone birthday, and a milestone birthday requires a milestone present: I offered to take her anywhere in the US that Southwest flies and that Hilton has hotels. Of course, then COVID […]
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Trip Report: How a former-local spends a reunion weekend in Austin, Texas
Our “travel revenge” continued recently, with yet another weekend trip, this time to Austin, Texas to see our many friends who still live there. Since our move to Dallas two years ago, we’d made a tendency of visiting Austin multiple times a year, but COVID had unfortunately put a temporary stop to that, and so […]
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Trip Report: A Foodie Weekend In Suburban Houston, Texas
As you may know, since getting our Covid vaccines, we’ve been on something of a travel jaunt here at Mrs. Millennial, visiting both Fort Worth and Napa in recent weeks. But the first week of May I got to take my most important Covid trip yet: visiting my mom, grandmother, and aunt’s family in Houston, […]
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Trip Report: Four Day Trip to Napa
After successfully re-testing the travel waters with our very first post-COVID staycation trip to Fort Worth, we felt confident heading slightly further afield, and so decided to book a four-day, three-night visit to Napa, California. As wine lovers, we knew we’d find plenty to do there, and better yet, in the new post-COVID atmosphere, we […]
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Our first post-COVID trip: weekend in Fort Worth
Hello loyal blog readers, and may I just say it is SO nice to chat with you once again! After the suckiness of 2020, 2021 was threatening to bring more of the same, until I flipped the script with some big life changes. So far in the first few months of 2021, I’ve gotten vaccinated, […]
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A First-Hand Account of Dry January
As I mentioned in my last blog, last month we decided to take part in the Dry January movement — giving up all alcohol for 31 days as a “reset” on our relationship with alcohol. But as long-time readers of this blog know, we like our cocktails! So you might be wondering; how did Dry […]
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Ranking the Best Alcohol Alternatives for Dry January (or Everyday Mocktails!)
This month, the Hubby and I are participating in a “Dry January” in which we gave up all alcoholic drinks as a reset of our own drinking behavior. Dry January started originally as a trend in the UK, and has since gained popularity around the world. However, after a few days of not drinking, we […]
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