What's Hap-"Pinning" Wednesday {#38}: Wanderlusting

Happy middle of the week! It's Wednesday so you know it's time to link up with Jessi and I and share what's hap-"pinning" with you!

This week I have some exciting wanderlusting news to share! Remember last week when I said that we're going to that awesome lake house for my FIL's birthday and we might have a pretty awesome dream vacation in the works, too?

Well, instead of Aruba in May for 4 days, we're spending 11 days visiting Athens, cruising through the Greek and Turkish Isles, and then spending a couple of days in Istanbul!

At the top of my travel list has always been Greece and I'm SO beyond belief that we're going to get to hit up all of the places that I've wanted to visit, and then some I didn't even know about but now that I know, I'm even more pumped about visiting them!

So, I said before that I felt guilty about not working this summer (and I still do on some level), but not working has allowed us to take this trip and I'm beyond excited and grateful.

On our travel list:

Athens

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Santorini, Greece (this is one I'm MOST excited about)

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Rhodes, Greece

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Mykonos, Greece

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Kusadasi, Turkey: home of one of the seven wonders of the world

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Istanbul

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We already have our hotel booked for our night in Athens before we board the cruise ship (which has rooms with a view of the Acropolis), and we have our two night hotel booked for Istanbul. The guy we booked the cruise from has set us up with a tour guide in Istanbul and Kusadasi.

MG has wanted to go to Turkey for a while, and even though he's been to Greece before, he hasn't hit up any of the islands, so it's really a dream trip for both of us. I'm so excited that I can now check off one of my top Wanderlust Travel Bucket List places once we go!

And since we've booked things and started to share with people where we're going and what we're doing, SO many people have said that Istanbul is one of the most beautiful cities and best places that they've been to. It was never on my list, but now that I'm learning about it, I'm super excited to go, and to get a couple of days to explore!

So, that's what we've been up to over here! Now it's your turn to share what's hap-"pinning" with you!!