Tuesday, February 4 I awoke early and went out to watch the sunrise. Caribbean sunrises don’t come along very often in my life, so I was determined to enjoy it. We were heading almost directly East, toward the island of Antigua, so I made my way to the very front of the ship and simply …
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2014 Caribbean Cruise Day Three: St. Croix
Monday, February 3 We were roused from our solid slumber by room service bringing our eggs and fruit that we’d ordered the previous night. Waking to breakfast being delivered is something that I could really get used to. We ate the breakfast quickly and went to work out. Manina and I did a high-intensity 7-minute …
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2014 Caribbean Cruise Day Two: St. Thomas
Sunday, February 2 After a great day in Puerto Rico, we woke up excited to head to St. Thomas. Ben Forstner had rented a couple cars for us so he, Manina, and I took off early on foot to go get the cars. After completing the paperwork we walked back to the ship and met …
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2014 Caribbean Cruise Day One: Puerto Rico
I’m not a fan of travelogues, but I don’t write this blog for the benefit of the world. MightyJohnsons.com is a small, intimate, family-centered blog, mainly to record and journal our own memories. I love that family and close friends also read it, but the next several posts are mainly for me to look back …
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Flight from paradise turns into flight from hell
We returned yesterday from a Caribbean cruise vacation. We spent the last week visiting islands of indescribable beauty and having a great time vacationing with our friends. But, before I tell you all about the wonderful week in paradise, I have to explain our journey getting home. We boarded US Airways flight 770 from San …
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Happy Birthday Manina!
Manina usually gets the short shrift on her birthday since it’s so near Christmas. She used to get fairly frustrated with me and my attitude toward birthdays. You see, I am the oldest of eight kids, we had birthdays all the time growing up and they weren’t a big deal. A couple presents and a …
Bedroom Redo
As promised here is my “before and after” of my bedroom. From nearly the day we were married, Seth has always wanted to paint our bedroom blue. I was hesitant because I loved warmer tones, but I couldn’t be happier. I absolutely love our new color. Seth and I painted it together and it turned …
January Makeover Edition
Wow, has January been super crazy around our house! It started back in October when Seth and I decided (well mostly I decided) the house needed a new paint job. The main living quarters hasn’t been painted since the day it was built and the walls and ceiling matched each other with a lovely mauve …
Manina’s Birthday
Happy birthday to my lovely wife! Having a birthday so close to Christmas means she often doesn’t get the excitement she deserves. But, we make sure she at least gets an ice cream cake and a stirring rendition of the happy birthday song before we hustle back to our usual last-minute Christmas preparations.
A good two months
A few months ago, we swapped out our Expedition for a 2009 Suburban. Manina searched KSL Classifieds and found a super-clean, extremely well taken care of Suburban. It was used solely as a road trip car by the original owner, had low, freeway-only miles on it, and could easily be mistaken for a new car. …
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