Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Denver Vacation Days 1 & 2

Hey friends! I am finally home and settled after a weeks vacation. I finally feel back on top and where I need to be in order to post. I did do my WILW but it felt really last minute and thrown together because I had just gotten home and wanted to get that done.

I didn't know if I was going to post all of the photos here or all of the videos, so I bring you the best of both worlds. I have made a compilation video of all of the videos and photos that you can watch and here I will be posting some of my favorite videos.



For some reason, the only thing I cannot post is the video footage from my phone! It was while we were at an arcade bar called the 1UP and it was a ton of fun. I have a part two (day 3&4) that I will probably start working on tomorrow and if I can will add the 1UP footage and few pictures to it.

The first day was exhausting. We stopped at Five Guys Burgers and Fries (45 ish minutes north of where we live in Colorado Springs) where neither of us have ever been and I was really impressed with the food. It was excellent except that I would have loved to have a medium rare burger. Oh well, still a very good experience.

When we got to Denver we spent the day walking the 16th Street Mall which is a mile long outdoor mall. I spent way too much money of course. Around 7 we had dinner at Tokyo Joe's which we have both had before and I had a salad with mango in it and he had some sort of bowl and we shared some sushi. We really didn't do anything that night since we were both exhausted, so we found a liquor store and had some drinks in our hotel.

The second day we went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science which was really fun. We literally stayed there until the last minute. They had so much to look at and we got to see and IMAX film about Great White Sharks and a Planetarium display all about Black Holes which was actually narrated by Liam Neeson. I learned a lot and we were scrambling to grab a few goodies at the gift shop. Naturally, for dinner we stopped at a restaurant neither of us have been to called Rubio's which has really good tacos. I had shrimp. Later that night is when we went to the arcade bar called the 1UP. It was a lot of fun and Josh got to drink and we both play assorted pinball machines, Pacman, and Galaga (which is one of my favorites). I drove us home since I had only had one drink the entire night of which I didn't know cost $10!

I'll save the mystery and suspense of days 3 and 4 for the next post. As promised here are some of my favorite pictures from this trip!



Josh and my first meal at Five Guys Burgers and Fries


Mesolite Crystals at DMNS


Mountain Goats


Wolf Pack


Ram


Penguins


Zebras


Cheetah


Large Mechanical Shark Sculpture


Mummies Exibit


Dinosaur Skulls, Tail Bones and Claws


Triceratops Skull


Large Underwater Dinosaur Skeletons


Mammoth Skull

So that's all for Days 1 & 2. It really was so much fun. I will be posting Days 3 & 4 and hopefully the footage from my phone soon in the next post!

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

What I Love Wednesday 9.4.13

Another week gone by. This is my birthday month so it's no surprise that my list of desires has grown and grown. Here are the 5 things I love this week.


Acai, Pomegranate & Blueberry Green Tea



In our house it's very well known that I love my tea. I found this gem while it was on sale at King Soopers and it has been my tea of choice for well over 2 months. I like to drink it as an iced tea, but suspect it would make a wonderful hot beverage in the winter. It's good enough to drink without sweetener but makes a delicious concoction with sugar or Truvia. I highly recommend it.

Polyvore.com


I'm sure you all don't recall a time when I was obsessed with making outfits and collections on polyvore.com to submit to character Tumblr pages, but I do. Recently I went on there again to look around at the clothing they carried, and here I go again putting together outfits! It is really a fun thing to do if you're bored, but you should totally check out the clothing as well... on it's own.

Rag Rugs


I really want to make one of these for my next project, I just have one little set back. I don't know how to crochet!  I would love to make one to go in our kitchen in front of the sink, and have looked at many different ways to go about making one. I usually like to do things the easy way, but I'm not sure that an easy way exists for one of these. I either need to learn how to crochet or sew through a ton of layers. I guess I'll have to get creative and keep thinking of how I can do this... or give in and pick up a crochet hook.

Frilly Backpack


A long time ago I might have loved this backpack, and now I love it because of it's monochromatic color scheme. I think it would be perfect to take traveling and has many pockets and even a hidden pocket for secret treasures and snacks. I am seriously thinking about getting this baby for our birthday trip this month to Denver so I don't have to lug around a purse.


 Sick Sad World T-Shirt


Please tell me you remember Sick Sad World from Daria on MTV or Daria at all for that matter. I'll be blunt here: I want this t-shirt! Nostalgia to the max!


That's all for WILW, I'm either going to be posting a birthday wish list or a special edition of WILW for my birthday within the next 2 weeks.