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
We recently rented a narrowboat to travel England and Wales via the canals. We traversed the canals for two weeks and I have some fun stories to tell about our time. For those who don’t know how the locks work, here is a short summary: We open the paddles (the things that let the water
We recently went to the WB studio’s Harry Potter exhibit where they filmed and prepared all 8 movies. On the bus ride there (the bus was a double decker bus!) we watched thrilling scenes from the movies and some upcoming movie trailers on the in-bus television as well as hearing about WB studios!!! When we
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On our great cruise across the Atlantic we had dinner in the Britannia restaurant almost every night. The restaurant was different than others we had been to, which was to be expected because we were on a cruise. It was also quite a bit fancier than anything Jack and I had attended before. The first
We’ve been visiting a bunch of places in and around Charleston, SC recently. We have been to several forts, visited special trees, had delicious ice tea and ice cream, relaxed on the beach, ate Cajun food, spent time with old friends and made new ones. Jack and I divided up our recent activities and each
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Last Friday we went to Ocmulgee mounds and it was quite an interesting visit. Ocmulgee mounds is located near Macon, GA. The contract to establish the park was signed in 1936 by President Franklin Roosevelt naming the park, Ocmulgee National Monument, though in 2019 the park was renamed Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. Before the
This week I’ve been working hard on memorizing my part in a play that Full Time Families was performing. I got the main part with somewhere around 200 lines and about a week to memorize them. The play’s name was Beauty Is a Beast and it took place long ago in a fairytale world with
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This week we went on a tour of one of Puerto Rico’s bioluminescent bays, La Parguera. A bio bay is a ecosystem in a sheltered bay that lets thousands of Dinoflagellates thrive. When touched, they produce one tiny bit of glowing bioluminescence. When there’s a whole bunch in one place it looks really cool when
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