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United Polaris Class Travel Day to Athens During COVID-19

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  We woke up at 4:30am on October 4, 2021, and spent a few minutes snuggling with our schnauzer, Sam, before we had to head out for the 1.5 hour drive to Denver.   We pulled into the park dia lot at 6am and a shuttle promptly pulled in behind us. talk about timing! It was a full shuttle ride with a family heading to Disneyland and a southwest pilot. This was probably the best shuttle ride we’ve ever had! The pilot pulled out his iPad and showed the family the route they would go to get to Cali and how the plane would be guided in on the runway. It was actually really neat to watch. We all gave him a huge thank you for starting our day that way. Once dropped at the airport we headed straight to the United desk. I was expecting to see barely any employees but that was not the case! Every kiosk had a person plus they had 4 people manning the digital stations. Someone came over to immediately, checked all of my paperwork, and we were all set! We headed to security and I
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Planning our 2021 Greek Island Hopping

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 It has been almost 2 years since Nate and I have taken an actual "vacation"!   Like everyone else, the past year and a half has caused us to cancel so many planned vacations. It has been brutal on my travel planning heart. We booked a trip to the Maldives & cancelled, we booked 2 trips to MX & cancelled, we had a November TA on Allure of the Seas cancelled, etc etc etc…In spite of all of the cancellations, we continued to accumulate credit card points as much as we could.   We also made several trips to Florida, sold our house in CO, and rented a house in CO for the next year (step daughter’s senior year).     Through all of these cancellations and all of the stress and breakdowns since March 2020, we both kept feeling Greece calling us to return. In May on 2021, I received an email that United was having a major mileage sale. We were able to score two first class one way tickets to Athens in October for 60k miles each. I went ahead and booked
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Jewel of the Seas Greek Isles Cruise 2019 - final day in Rome Part 2 - the wrap up

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  we walked on.   they made me drink espresso. I couldn’t finish it. picked up a bottle of wine and some plastic cups I didn’t really care for it but everyone else drank it We decided to make our way to our hotel so we could check in. can you imagine chiseling that??? these two seriously laughed the entire day...you’d think the alcohol contributed but that’s just how they are together more police! they were putting up barriers in case the protestors came this way  we got to the hotel, checked in, and up to our room: 305. the shower is in the bedroom and takes up an entire wall enclosed washroom hallway stair decor ok we’re all checked in. we’ve rested our feet for a minute. Let’s go check out friends’ airbnb.  our lobby bar area: we type in their airbnb into google maps. It’s over by the Vatican. we start walking. looking back I honestly don’t know how we managed to eat SO much that day but here we are again...eating. The pizza was good but we did not care for the restaurant itself. an
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