Traveling: Tourists Go to Cancun…Travelers Go To Coba

When it came to cruise excursions, Cristina and I prefer history to relaxing and imbibing. So when Cristina was presenting me with possible shore excursions, I could see that she wanted to do something with the Mayan Ruins of Mexico. Cristina is always looking for more pictures to share with…

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Running and Eating: Disney 5K and the Food and Wine Festival

We have been running for about three months. We are proud of what we have accomplished because this is actually the third time we have tried the C25K program. To make sure we stayed on course this time, we signed up for a race even before we started. And we…

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Traveling: Honeymoon Cruise aboard the Carnival Freedom

Last December, Cristina went on a cruise with her mom, sisters, and a certain boy band. Before the ship even set sail, I knew that we were going on a cruise for our honeymoon. I didn’t object too much because our previous plan of doing a road trip through the…

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Cooking: How Cooking Benefits Us

Yesterday, in the Sunday Review of the New York Times, Mark Bittman wrote an Op-Ed piece on how junk food is not actually cheaper than regular food (if you want to read it, go ahead, we’ll be here when you get back). He talks about how families can really cook…

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Review of Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

The Argument Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is a movie made by an Australian business man on how going on a juice fast changed his life for the better. My review of Fat Sick and Nearly Dead really isn’t about that. The plot is simple. An overweight man, Joe Cross,…

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Watching The Addams Family At the Mahalia Jackson

This year we decided to buy tickets to the Broadway Across America series at the Mahalia Jackson Theater. The first play on slate was the Addams Family. I have to admit that I didn’t expect much. I have never really been a fan of either the television show nor the…

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