For my first day of birthday we had two events. The first event was an acting, fighting thing. We weren’t quite sure what it would be till we got there. We knew there would be archery, axe throwing, and fake sword fighting but that was about it. We descended down some stairs and checked in, […]
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One of my first group activities with other kids in New Zealand was Surf Life Rookies Sunday Fun Day. Surf Life is an organization for kids to practice useful pre-lifeguarding skills and have a fun day in and near the water. Rookies is the thirteen year old group which I took part in. The first
Our week long visit to Moab, Utah was filled with fun experiences. During our time there I flew our new drone a lot and found it is a new favorite hobby of mine. We also went rock crawling for a day which made it quite a unique trip. The drone flying we did was
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On our first day in Salzburg, Austria we each made verbal lists detailing three locations and or activities that we were interested in visiting. The top of my list contained visiting the ice cave way up in the mountains, our friends the Konons said it was a must see, so I took their advice seriously.
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While on a walk around Berlin we came upon the Computerspiele museum. As it turned out it was far from an accident that we came to a video game museum, it was a special surprise! The layout of the museum was a bit strange, it was generally nonexistent besides a slight organization of the newer
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For my first post in quite a while, I chose to write about Kennywood, the historic amusement park. Kennywood is a historic park because it has many old, wooden and rickety rides. This week we had our first visit to the park in several years, needless to say it was a lovely visit full of
In Olympia we had a nice guided tour of the museum and temple ruins. We learned the truth of the not so old torch ceremony, and pretended to race each other across the finish line (I won of course!). Starting with our tour of the museum we realized it was very helpful to have a
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Yoga week retreat was a fun relaxing way to spend some extra time we had on our hands. Every morning we would get up at, the not fun hour of, seven o’clock to get ready for yoga at eight. Yoga was generally ninety minutes long and in the morning was almost always vinyasa flow. Breakfast
Pompeii and Herculaneum were both well established cities by 79 AD. They were both near to the sea and had strong shipping routes and money inflow. There was an abundance of nobles who came to the cities to watch the arena fights and bet on who would win. The slaves were probably less thrilled about
Who likes sweets? I know I do! We’ve had lots of fun trying all the yummy confections around Nice. We had ice creams, chocolates, candied fruit, and my personal favorite macaroons! The places to get the sweets were also very nice. There was a flower market that was open almost every day and it didn’t
