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UPDATE, MY TRIP TO MEXICO AND LA CASA HERRADURA TOUR

February 5, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Hey all. Happy new year. I haven’t been active on here lately. I have a lot of family sick and I took the time to travel and spend time with them. Instead of rushing through the emotions and pretending that I am okay… I am here to tell you that I’m not.

There have been events in my life that have reminded me of the fragility of life. Kobe’s passing and the other passengers on that helicopter last week didn’t help either and my heart goes out to the victim’s and families. After flying back from Mexico the night before I was dumbfounded when I woke up finding out that my all time hero passed away on TMZ the next morning.

I will never forget that day.

I am a firm believer of not avoiding my feelings when I go through lows. Feeling sad is a part of life and I try to allow myself space and time to feel that way. I don’t know if someone needed to read this but IT’S TOTALLY OKAY TO FEEL THIS WAY. A lot of the blogs I follow shuffle through this and go on with their routines

IT’S NOT ALL TRIPS AND RAINBOWS ON MY BLOG. I wanted to write this and say that if you’re in the same boat message me. It’s not a misery needs company thing… It’s just opening up the topic for discussion. Besides talking to someone about this… how do you guys deal with your lows?

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of being a plus one on this pretty rad trip with my friend Katie. She works for Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) and she earned a trip in Mexico to tour the Casa Herradura. We were accompanied by others from RNDC in Dallas & Oklahoma who also earned the trip.

DAY 1. We land in Guadalajara it’s about 12:30 pm. I haven’t slept of course. We grab our bags and Katie and I rush to change out of our sweat pants. It’s not super hot or super cold it’s just right with a nice breeze (all you need is a light jacket lol.. name the movie.) I threw on some camouflage pants and a black tee to blend in. We then hopped on our shuttle bus to Amatitán.

What I am about to describe to you is unimaginable. After driving through the small towns we then enter the countryside and not a countryside you are thinking. A countryside full of fields and fields of agave. Picture this agave hills for miles and mountains in the background with blue skies and some cattle and horses in between. When you look at the agave it’s dimensional in colors it gives off a blue, green, and light brown when hit by the sun and it’s crazy beautiful. I immediately perked out of my seat and got over my fatigue. The agave would spread as close as about a meter to the road we were driving on. It was insane. Every square inch is utilized there……AND FOR GOOD REASON…TEQUILA.

The best photo I could get in a moving bus. No filter… it doesn’t do the colors justice.

After pivoting our bus in and out of the small towns (no really the roads there are extremely narrow) we finally arrive to the Casa Herradura along with other busses from RNDC.

If you me… you know that I love tequila. Like I annoyingly love tequila. It was amazing to see the process (it’s a damn process too) and to learn the history of how the distillery evolved over time. Here is a small cliff note version of the process – once the agave plant is ripe trim all the leaves, then the core is split (for even cooking), next the agave ready to be be cooked in a clay oven – that juice from the cooked agave is then extracted then milled … the make a blend with that for the right fermentation for it to be distilled… then that blend is put into distillery tanks… and so forth.

We were followed by a cute donkey carrying tequila on it’s back for us to enjoy it was fun.

After we learned the process our guide gave us quick tour of one of the old Herradura mills. Casa Herradura was founded in 1870 and they still have some of the mills/ fermentation tanks in place. It looked like a torture chamber and I was glad we weren’t there at night. Not to be a child but there was a chill in the air there and you couldn’t pay me a million bucks to sleep there.

We then were done with the tour portion of our visit and got to enjoy a traditional mexican meal with drinks tequila drinks of course. I then learned that I liked the most expensive of the tequila they offered for tasting (go figure). If you haven’t tried Herradura seleccion suprema you haven’t lived. It’s just a little over $300 a bottle. It’s an anejo.

The suprema is in the middle. Safe to say some other people on the trip left their suprema glass full and I took them…

DAY 2 & 3 – I’m going to share a separate post of outfits and such. We spent the other days at an all inclusive in Puerto Vallarta.

I want to wrap up this post by saying that I am an experienced tequila connoisseur and if you are still thinking Patron is the cream of the crop you are mislead by bright advertising and you haven’t lived. Be open to try more and don’t be afraid to drink more than just silver. What’s your favorite tequila brand?

— JENNA —

THE $17 BODYSUIT I WORE IN CHICAGO AND HOW I STYLED IT

September 11, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Hey guys happy Wednesday! I am coming back from my huge road trip and an 8 hour shoot my photographer and I had yesterday… and it’s finally catching up to me.

I barely talked about my Chicago trip on here and I truly fell in love with the city all over again. The weather was in the lower 70’s the whole time and it was perfect timing for me to finally go on the architectural boat tour without it being too cold or too hot. Chicago is probably my second favorite skyline in the U.S (behind NY) and it was really interesting learning about the different architectural styles and how they all got there and the inspiration behind each building. The boat tour made me really appreciate it more. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Before I move forward I wanted to write a quick post about this black bodysuit that I wore in Chicago. I am trying to get cheaper basics now and I found this bodysuit on Amazon and I had to order it.

I love to style my cheaper basics with nicer pieces in my wardrobe to make it look more elevated. I knew that we were going to be walking all day so I threw on my sneakers and comfy cargo pants. I finished the look with my OFF WHITE belt because I had to pay my respect visiting Virgil Abeloh’s: “Figures of Speech” Exhibit at the MCA.

I do think this look would have been much cooler with heels, but that wasn’t in the cards…

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My Cruise with Royal Carribbean

October 19, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Hey guys! It’s yet again another rainy day here in Dallas, but I am trying to remain optimistic because I’m telling myself that there will be perfect temps on the other side of this. I just got back from my whirlwind of a trip in Miami/ The Bahamas. I recently went on a cruise with Royal Caribbean for my friend Jordan’s Bach party. It was a blast. I am really proud of how our group (all eleven of us including myself) all came together hungover or not and made it to all of the events in a timely manner on the ship.

This was my very first cruise, so I had no expectations coming in…. and I wanted to make a point of listing a few things that I wish I knew before boarding our vessel, Mariner of the Seas. To give a cliff notes version of our trip it was three days and we went from the Port of Miami to Royal Caribbean’s private island CoCo Cay in the Bahamas. Then we went to Nassau, Bahamas which is right across from Atlantis… then we went back to the Port of Miami.

1. DOWNLOAD THE ROAYAL CARIBBEAN APP/ (your Cruise app) BEFORE YOU BOARD THE SHIP

Here you can view your “set sail pass” (which is basically just like a boarding pass for a flight) which is used to get past security getting on and off the ship. On the app you can keep track of all the events going on that day on the boat, additionally you could also keep track of your spending of your drink package… which leads me to my next point…

2. PURCHASE A DRINK PACKAGE BEFORE YOUR TRIP WITH THE WIFI/STREAMING OPTION

Don’t even get me started with the drink package. Our Royal Caribbean travel agent did not make it clear that there were three options. He just kept asking for my credit card information via email and was going to pick one for me. You can pick yours yourself online on the website. You and your roommate have to purchase it together at the same time. I purchased the higher package because I don’t want to be limited. Keep in mind before you board the ship the wifi isn’t going to be the greatest… you are in the middle of the ocean with thousands of people trying to use the same network. I would check your app daily on the cruise and your bank account because there were girls on my trip that were accidentally charged for things… like accidentally charged for a drink package twice, even if they bought it before the trip.

3. GET A ROOM WITH A BALCONY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

I don’t really get motion sickness, but if I was confined to a room without fresh air I would go nuts. The rooms are small enough as it is. To give you guys an idea of how big the rooms/bathrooms are I would compare it to like a room in a motorhome/trailer. It’s worth the price trust me. I also love watching the sun set/rise when I’m by an ocean and the views are incredible.

4. GET TO KNOW YOUR FLOOR ADVISOR

I was on a first name basis with mine from the gate. He was my buddy. Some of the staff who work there are pretty cool… and if you ever have a problem with anything meaning air conditioning, service, other boat questions they are the closest person to help you out. They give you their card information from the beginning and every night taped to our chocolate covered strawberries plate in our room so it is there to use.

5. BRING A SUITCASE WITH A TSA LOCK ON IT

Your suitcase is loaded before you board the ship with many others on a luggage cart. I never had any worry in my mind that anyone would get into it because I had a TSA lock on mine. Our rooms didn’t have a safe in them and staff is in and out of your room in the morning to clean your room and at night. (They set up the towel animals and chocolate strawberries with it every night. I had cash, my passport, my purse and jewelry locked in my bag whenever I left my room just in case.

Just wanted to leave a couple of my tips. If I ranked my cruise I would give it a 8 out of 10 score. Some of the service was lacking, but I would definitely cruise again with Royal Caribbean. If you’ve been on a cruise what would you suggest?