Christmas in Florida Florida Spencer and I started dating at the end of 2010. 2010! Our very first New Year's Eve was partly spent having dinner at the Tampa (pour one out, the location is now luxury condos on the Courtney Campbell Causeway) Chart House. We subsequently spent many family holidays and date nights at that spot. While we are always looking for our next unique date night, at the end of the day we are both beyond sentimental, and a few chain restaurants hold speci

On the jumbotron at the World Series Nikki's favorite sport to watch is either football or hockey. My favorite sport to watch is probably basketball. But our favorite sport to attend in person is definitely baseball. Our most recent home stadium - Oriole Park at Camden Yards Throughout our relationship, attending baseball games has never lost its allure. In contrast to other sporting events, they are slower paced and more quiet. The fans are not as row

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At port in Skagway. We are not "cruise people." The only ones we had been interested in are those European river cruises they always advertise on PBS. However, when a local casino notified us of a "buy one - get one" promotion, we decided to give this a chance. We ended up booking the NCL Encore 7-day Alaska Round-Trip Seattle: Glacier Bay, Skagway & Juneau (spoiler alert: there's always a promotion and the casino's offer did not make much of a difference in pricing). We had

The pop art version of us. I have been a writer my whole life. I kept diaries when I was a kid (those are equal parts hilarious and sad) and journals through my teens and early twenties (lots of single girl lonely angst). On a fateful day in Helena, Montana, my youngest brother Casey told me I should write a blog. Since then (in 2008!) blogging has been my main outlet. I loved that blog so much. I still use that logo a few places. I was working at The Trop in St. Pete and pai