Emily Ellet

I haven’t forgotten that I owe you one more Hawaii post.  I can’t say that I did anything amazing, but it was a lovely button to my cruise ship adventures.  So here’s a brief photo essay, capturing my final travels aboard the Ruby Princess. Our first stop, as always, was Hilo, an island of which I didn’t have a great opinion, given our rather industrial-looking port and my usual trip to Wal-Mart and/or a simple mall.  But some friends I worked with told me that I just hadn’t

I’m about to set foot in Hawaii for the last time on this cruise contract, and with that has come the realization that I haven’t yet shared my photos from the last time we were there!  Naughty me.  So here’s what my Christmas was like in the islands a few weeks ago. My emerald green Christmas dress! First we were in Hilo on the Big Island again, where I didn’t do anything more exciting than shop.  Oh, and see STAR WARS, which was awesome.  Funnily enough, the shopping was als

We’re travelling up to dry dock currently, enduring some very choppy waters off the California coast as we make our way towards British Columbia, Canada.  Fortunately, that means I don’t want to leave my room, and thus I can blog!  #thingstobegratefulfor I can now say I’ve experienced all four Hawaiian islands – the Big Island, Oahu, Kauai, and Maui.  And I had quite different adventures in each… Our first stop on these cruises is always Hilo, the biggest city on the Big Isla

Suffice it to say that ship life has been completely different for the past month and a half.  Hence why I haven’t written anything in that time – amongst my work schedule, my resultant cravings for social interaction (oddly enough), and my sheer physical exhaustion most of the time, it was hard to find the time and, more honestly, the effort to blog. But oh, how much has happened. As I mentioned a few times over the past few months, we are one of the premiere casts of the ne