• Aulani,  Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  Disney,  In My Life,  Travel

    Our Honeymoon – Day 8 – A Hike & A Photoshoot

    This is post #8 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 DAY 8 – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 After our first full day on Oahu and at Aulani yesterday, we were ready to get going on more adventures and were up early this Saturday morning! Our destination today was something not necessarily in my comfort zone, but we were both excited about it. We were heading to Diamond Head State Monument for an early morning hike! Diamond Head is a “volcanic cone” in Honolulu that’s…

  • Aulani,  Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  Disney,  In My Life,  Travel

    Our Honeymoon – Day 7 – Tourists in Oahu

    This is post #7 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 DAY 7 – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 When I last left off we had just checked in to Aulani! We were so excited to be there and we were up early today to head to breakfast. We posed for a few photopass pictures on the way too! Our breakfast was at ‘Ama’Ama, a beautiful open air restaurant overlooking the water. We had the perfect beachside table! Everything on the menu sounded amazing: And they…

  • Disney,  In My Life,  Lifestyle,  Series,  Tourin' Over California - Sept 2018,  Travel

    Back from California!

    The title here says it all – I’m back from my vacation to California!! It was an absolutely amazing trip and we had so much fun! Sarah, Ana & I always have such a great time together but this was some of our best work yet. Everything went so smoothly, we saw so many awesome things and made tons of great new memories. I’m going to blog the whole thing at some point (I know, I still need to finish the honeymoon AND do all the cruise posts too 😬) but I also am so excited because we vlogged basically the…

  • In My Life,  Tourin' Over California - Sept 2018,  Travel,  Videos,  YouTube

    California Trip Packing & Prep!

    I’m in the last few days leading up to my next vacation, and this will probably be the last post I get to put up before I’m off to California!! I have at least one post queued up that will post when I’m gone, but this will be the last one before I actually leave. And I actually have something exciting for this post…a video! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CZOSQ4usGI&w=560&h=315] I decided that since I got this fancy new vlogging camera, I should probably practice a little bit and get used to it before busting it out for the first time on our…

  • Aulani,  Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  Disney,  In My Life,  Travel,  Wedding

    Our Honeymoon – Day 6 – Aloha Aulani!

    This is post #6 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 DAY 6 – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8 After a completely jam-packed last day on the Big Island, it was time for us to move on to our final island destination: Oahu! And we were SO excited because moving to Oahu meant it was finally time to check in to Disney Aulani!! We woke up refreshed after a good night’s sleep and ready for another exciting day. I don’t know why I took this photo…

  • Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  In My Life,  Series,  Travel,  Wedding

    Our Honeymoon – Day 5 – Big Island Adventures

    This is day 5 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 These are always pretty photo-heavy but this one is especially so – hope you enjoy! DAY 5 – WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Today was our first full day on the Big Island of Hawaii, and we were so excited because we had a LOT of cool things planned! We got up nice and early to get ready and then headed out to breakfast. Chris was still a little tired from our fun the day before……

  • In My Life,  Reviews,  Theatre

    Moulin Rouge! The Musical – Review

    I have been cautiously excited to write this post since we took our whirlwind trip to Boston a few weeks ago. A few people have asked what I thought of the show and I have SO MANY thoughts about it – both good and bad – and this post will serve mostly as a dumping ground for all of it. I’m not a musical critic or anything so if you found this page on google or something, you might wanna look elsewhere for a review from someone whose opinion actually matters 😉 These are my thoughts about Moulin Rouge! the…

  • In My Life,  Lifestyle,  Mental Health,  Thoughts & Inspiration

    Back in Business

    There’s no good way to segue out of my last post, so I just wanted to give a quick update on how things have been going since then. After this it’ll be back to my usual weird and fun postings, hopefully 🙂 First of all – I just want to say thank you SO MUCH to everyone who reached out to me regarding my last post. Honestly, I was terrified to post it and I was waffling about whether I should put it up at all. The amount of amazingly kind and thoughtful messages I have received has made me feel…

  • In My Life,  Lifestyle,  Mental Health,  Thoughts & Inspiration

    Where I’ve Been

    It’s been a little quiet around here, huh? As you may or may not have noticed, I took a bit of an unexpected hiatus from my blog. I didn’t intend to – it just kind of happened. I had the next post drafted and almost ready to put up, I had a list of ideas and fun things that I wanted to write about… and then I just stopped. There’s no use beating around the bush here, so let me cut to the chase and explain what’s been going on with me. Things are mostly fine, but this post is…

  • Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  In My Life,  Travel,  Wedding

    Our Honeymoon – Day 4 – Island Hopping

    This is post #4 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 DAY 4 – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Our adventures on Kauai had been amazing so far, but sadly it was already almost time for us to head to our next island! Our flight didn’t leave until the afternoon, but we were still up early to gather our things and pack up. We enjoyed our gorgeous view one last time: And we were out the door and waving goodbye to our adorable hotel around 9:45.…