Matt and Kati

Now I’m sure many of you are saying to yourselves right now “Wow, Matt and Kati sure have been having a great trip going through cities like Miami, New Orleans, New York City. I wonder why they want to spoil the whole thing by going to Cleveland?” A very fair question and I have a perfectly legitimate answer. I haven’t seen my mother’s side of the family in over 10 years. The last time I saw my uncles and cousins I was probably 10 and now the only things we know about each other is through facebook and I haven’t seen my grandparents since I graduated High School. I also really wanted this side of the family to meet Kati since my grandparents had only met her through the video phone and once again my cousins ... read more

The next part of our adventure takes us to the east coast, so after some time in the lower states, we decided we would take advantage of our country’s historical greatness by visiting the Colonial Triangle in Virginia. We headed up to Virginia after leaving from Charleston. This is a beautiful drive; lots of thick trees and lushness. The colonial triangle in Virginia consists of Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg; three of the original colonies of the U.S. We headed to Jamestown first where we were able to catch a walking tour that a very charismatic colonial tour guide was giving. He told us all about how the people lived when they first came to our country. Jamestown was the first colony founded by the settlers. We learned that they arrived in the largest drought the area ... read more

So a very fortunate turn of events happened on the plane rides back to Miami from Costa Rica. Matt and I were sitting on the plane trying to figure out what to do when we landed, and kept hearing a dance beat coming from this guy’s headphones behind us. A light bulb went off above Matt’s head and he realized that the Winter Music Conference was going on in Miami when we landed! This music conference is one of the world’s largest electronic/dance music events, and we had originally been getting back to the states about 3 days before the event even started. Thanks to our extended Costa Rica trip, however, we were able to be in Miami right when the conference was starting! Needless to say we were both pretty extremely happy about this, and ... read more

Hey Ya’ll, it’s Matt. I’ll be writing about Sarasota and Miami and Kati is going to take care of Costa Rica. It has been a couple weeks since we have spoken but we have a ton to write about. So grab a drink of choice and a snack and enjoy our vacation with us! We left you at Destin, Florida. After leaving Destin, we headed down the scenic route through Florida along the coast towards Sarasota where some old friends of my Mom’s (Barb and David) were waiting to take us in for a few days. We had only planned on staying in Sarasota a day or two, but due to the amazing hospitality, the homemade food, and comfortable bed we decided we would spend 3 nights here and relax before heading to Miami and ... read more

(Warning: we have a lot to write about, we had that good of a time) Following the fun times we had in Baton Rouge, Kati and I were excited to head down south to see the big easy, New Orleans! The drive was short from BR, only about an hour or so. We rolled into Nawlins around 7 and went straight to the French Quarter for dinner. It was like nothing we had ever seen. The feeling and sites are hard to describe, but when you came into the area, you heard jazz bands playing down the street, the smell of beignet’s filled the air, and street performers were entertaining down every small narrow street. We were ready to dive right into the local’s favorite dishes. We sat down at a café along the street ... read more