Alpha Chi Omega Alumnae Chapter

At Stetson, I was a collegiate member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority for four years and it was an experience unlike any other. Before I got to college, I could never have predicted that I would join a Greek organization, but it shaped my college life like no other activity would. After graduation, my life was swept up in a whirlwind of living on my own, trying to build a career and make a name for myself, and of course, meeting the love of my life. The Orlando alumnae chapter of ΑΧΩ had been sending me mail describing all of their fun events for the year, and now that the storm has settled, I decided it was time for me to get involved again in ΑΧΩ.

The first meeting of the year, a tailgate party, was last night in Maitland at the home of one of the members. I carpooled with my pal Rachel whom I met through going to auditions but by coincidence is also a Photopass Photographer and also a member of Alpha Chi! We both had a grand time and funnily enough we both ended up as officers on the board at our first meeting! I inherited the duties of Lyre Editor, putting together articles and photos detailing our activities and submitting them to our national quarterly magazine. Rachel is the Historian, responsible for chronicling the year's events in a photo album. We decided that, since we both love to write and take photos and that those skills are needed for each position, we could make it that much more fun and collaborate on our tasks.

I don't know if any of my fellow collegiate ΑΧΩ alumnae from Stetson follow this blog, but if you are reading this you should totally join in the fun!

Movin' On Up

We keep getting these exciting packages from Disney Cruise Line about our trip next month. Last week we got our Ship and Shore Vacation Guides with all the information about setting sail on the Magic. Today we received our Travel Booklet with our stateroom assignment, along with some other travel documents.

Since we didn't spend much time in our stateroom on our first cruise, we booked a standard inside stateroom, but according to our Travel Booklet, we've been bumped up to the highest level of stateroom in our category--a deluxe oceanview stateroom! It doesn't have the biggest porthole (who cares?) but it is smack dab in the center of the ship (indicated by a grey flag in the graphic below), which is supposedly the most convenient location for those prone to motion sickness. We feel like VIPs!

Also, we got a letter stating that Disney Cruise Line will be celebrating Halloween onboard its ships for the entire month of October! There's already a pirate night so we've got plans for pirate-y duds, so now we'll find costumes to bring along, too!

We're Going Cruising!

We've decided to continue this year with the tradition we began last year by taking a cruise during my birthday. This time around, we're taking advantage of our connections to the world's most powerful rodent and vacationing with Disney Cruise Line aboard the Disney Magic!

We leave from Port Canaveral on Saturday, October 10, for our 7-night Eastern Caribbean Cruise to St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John, and Castaway Cay, Disney Cruise Line's private Bahamian island. So on the day of my birth, Thursday the 15th, we'll be spending a peaceful (or hectic, who knows?) day at sea preparing for the next day's adventure on Castaway Cay. We couldn't be more excited: Eric about the endless dining options and I about the exotic locales and remote, relaxing atmosphere. Here's hoping the many activities live up to our expectations--and that those vicious and strangely-named hurricanes, tropical storms, tropical depressions, and the like remain far, far away!