Author: lebonblonde

Ok… so I NEVER, in a million years, would have booked a cruise. I’m kinda terrified of the idea of open water (well I was anyway 😉). Maybe it was the 30 or so times I watched Titanic as an impressionable teenager or all the episodes of The Deadliest Catch but in my mind ship+ocean= […]

Maybe it was learning about the Holocaust in school. Maybe it was watching the Berlin Wall coming down on the news. Maybe it was hearing stories of my German Great-Grandmother and how mean she could be… I don’t know, but the fact is I was a little trepidatious about venturing to Germany. Everything I had […]

Nate and I didn’t have a wedding, or a honeymoon. We always said we would… someday… maybe for our 5 or 10 year anniversary, ya know. Well they both came and went and we did nothing. When my Papa died that idea died with him. He wouldn’t be there to walk me down the aisle, […]

I fell in love with Paris. I mean head-over-heels, borderline obsession, run-away-from-Sparta-like-Helen in love with Paris. It took me by surprise, which probably only added to my amour. I grew up very proud of my Italian heritage so seeing Italy was my end all, be all place to visit. France was never on my bucket […]