Posted in Sharing on March 17, 2011
I know that most of you are seeing hints of spring and probably don’t want to be reminded of winter at all but I just had to share our Gulf Coast version of a snow angel…the sand angel!
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Posted in Oahu on March 10, 2011
*Edited to add: This morning I woke up to the news of the tsunami and earthquake. My family is thinking of families in the affected areas.*
Getting on a surfboard and surfing has been on my husband’s bucket list for as long as I have known him. Even though we live on the Gulf Coast, he had only been on a surfboard once or twice. Surfing a wave on the North Shore definitely ranks up there in his top ten awesome activities! He took a lesson from the Hans Hedemann Surf School at Turtle Bay Resort in the North Shore. A review of his experience will be posted next week but here are a few pictures from that first caught wave!
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Posted in Sharing on February 3, 2011
By far, this was our favorite part of the luau!
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Posted in Sharing on January 28, 2011
We spotted these on our last vacation…can you guess what this is?
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Posted in Sharing on January 21, 2011
It is almost that time again…ball gowns, beads, floats, and moon pies!
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Posted in Sharing on January 14, 2011
This is what a vacation without kids looks like sometimes!
It also involved lots of fancy meals with no one wanting a piece of it or playing with it. It involved lots of midnight strolls on the beach because we could.
It also involved lots of phone calls home…
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I posted this picture on my Facebook page and asked if anyone could guess where I was while we were vacationing and I was so disappointed that only one person knew what it was!!! Obviously, my friends don’t have the same affinity for finding movie and television locations that I do!
Do you know where we were?
Here are two hints: It has recently had a paint job and we spotted it while we were in Hawaii!
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Posted in Participating, Sharing, Souvenirs on December 16, 2010
A few weeks ago, I posted about Christmas ornaments that we have collected and I loved all the comments and tweets I got about it. I asked some of my travel blogger buddies if they would share their favorite ornaments with us!
This decoration was bought in Bellagio, Lake Como. Since getting married my husband and I have bought a new decoration each time we go on holiday. This one is particularly special to me because it was the first holiday abroad my husband and I took with our son Euan. He was five months old and we were on a driving holiday of Europe. The trip was really special and it was actually while travelling that I decided to start my blog. I’m looking forward to hanging this decoration for the first time this year. It’s Euan’s first Christmas and I can’t wait!
I had a hard time choosing which ornament was my favorite! Ultimately I picked the newest two from our trip to Bath this past summer. We bought them at the gift shop at the Roman Baths Museum. I love them because they remind me of all the realities of traveling with kids. Our day in Bath was a little bit trying because Tommy was overtired and spazzy and we’d been no the road for over a week and were all just a smidge sick of each other. But the museum was such a gorgeous and interesting place (and had such a great audioguide for kids) that we all enjoyed ourselves anyway. It’s the only place on our two week trip where we bought any souvenirs and I think that’s because we wanted to remember how cool it was to stand among the remains of an ancient civilization. I also love what the ornaments say about the boys and their personalities. Teddy loved the bling of the crown jewels when we were at the Tower of London and knew that he had to have the crown. But Tommy, being eight, couldn’t choose anything “pretty” and had to pick the Roman centurion (although I know he really enjoyed the crown jewels too).
I’ve always enjoyed visiting the northern Michigan studio and store of the late Gwen Frostic. I’ve purchased greeting cards, wrapping paper, tote bags, and signed prints featuring Gwen’s beautiful nature images, and this little chickadee ornament features one of my favorite images from Gwen. Word filtered out early this year that the owners who acquired Gwen’s studio and wood-block images after her death lost the business to foreclosure, and many of Gwen’s fans feared the studio/store and her iconic images were lost forever. The story has a happy ending, though. New owners purchased the rights to Gwen’s artwork, bought the business, and reopened one of my favorite “Up North” destinations at the beginning of this past summer. So hanging my ornament again this year brought happy memories and anticipation of yet another visit to Gwen’s!
-Dominique, Midwest Guest
And my favorite ornaments? This year I have two favorite ones. This Mardi Gras crawfish is the very first ornament my husband and I picked out together. We got this little guy on our honeymoon to New Orleans in 2000. Ever year since, this ornament has a place of honor on our tree. It is the last ornament that we hang up and it is the last ornament that we take down!
We got this ornament at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum last year or the year before. It is one of my favorite ornaments this year because everytime the kids walk by it they ask about it. They want to know where we got it and why outer space is on it. Everytime I tell them the story, they quickly remember that this was a trip they took with their cousins and they loved seeing the gigantic space shuttles!
Thanks so much to all of my awesome blogging buddies for sharing their special ornaments!
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Posted in Sharing on December 9, 2010
This picture makes me think of a Gidget movie…or maybe one of the Elvis flicks filmed in Hawaii…
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A few weeks ago, I shared a picture of Waikiki from the top of Diamond Head.
Today, I want to share a picture of Waikiki from the water!
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