Julie Smith Travels

Belize, Honduras and Mexico For Rylie’s senior trip and 18 th birthday, we decided to go on a cruise to celebrate.  Day one on the boat was a bit of a blur. Between waiting to get in the room, then waiting for our luggage, the safety drill, our A/C in the room not working, etc., we were exhausted. That night was pretty low key. We did go to the karaoke bar for Rylie to sing a couple songs and make some new friends.  Day two and three were both at sea days. We tried to lay out by the pool, but it was either packed with people or too hot! We did attend more karaoke, movie night and a couple comedian shows on those days. Day three was actually Rylie’s 18 th birthday. I had our steward decorate our room and I had ordered a cake. Rylie and her new friends came up from the pool mid-day to have a piece and celebrate. That night Rylie went out to the “club” with her new friends since she was now of legal age.  Day four we finally got to our first stop, Roatan, Honduras. This da...

Australia June 2018 Day 1: Holly and I flew separately  from Mary, she had found a different flight using her credit card miles.  Mike dropped off me and Holly in New Orleans for our short flight to Houston. We had a long layover in Houston before our 9:00 pm flight. We lucked up and had a vacant seat in between us for the 17 1/2 hour flight to Sydney, so we had more space than usual. On the flight we had a few drinks and watched several movies while dozing on and off, trying to get some decent sleep. When we finally landed it was 6 am on Monday, we had left Houston at 9 pm on Saturday, so we missed Sunday (and Father's Day) completely. When we got to the airport we quickly went through customs and me and Holly went to grab our bags. As we were trying to leave the airport we saw Mary running up to us (she had landed about 10 minutes  before us), telling us that her bags didn't make it...but Chris Hemsworth was on her flight! We had to do some investigating to fig...