Divas Traveling Wild

 The Divas recently stayed at the beautiful Ocean Key Resort in Key West Florida for 7 days, 6 nights. On the trip with myself were my daughter(26) and my best friend (age withheld to protect the not-so-innocent). El kiddo and I drove down, about a 7.5 hr trip that we did break up into 2 days to check out Key Largo and the BFF flew in the day after we got there from Jersey (Key West Airport was a saga for another post!). photo by Ocean Key Resort I chose this hotel primarily due to location, it is right next to Mallory Square at the end of Duval Street and it has ocean front rooms. Had to splurge as it was my milestone birthday - the big 5-0! So we went for it with a one bedroom ocean front suite. Since we drove down, we had to valet park as that is the only parking option at Ocean Key. After check-in, you are offered a rum punch to sip on while being escorted to your room. That was a mighty fine punch, I will say. LOL.  Lobby My travel companions in the lobby I...

What started last year as an twinkle of an idea for a girls' trip to Paris and Amsterdam in May 2019, quickly morphed into let's go back to Hawaii. Why you ask? Well 1st off I started the year with torn medial and lateral meniscus and had to have surgery, I also ended up with several other health scares and issues for the first 5 months of the year that postponed any trips. Then my daughter got very unexpectedly laid off - folks were shocked as all get out when half the company was let go on a Tuesday, including my daughter's whole department. I thought she was joking when she called to tell me. I think I was more mad that she wasn't mad, at first, the mad came later. But hey, I can hold a grudge with the best of 'em so my pistivity (yeah I like to make up words) level was more than enough for the both of us. So all of that shifted our trip to September. Then of course folks in Paris wanted to start showing out and acting crazy and with my lingering health things, w...