November, 2017 - Lili on the Loose

7 11, 2017

October 2017 Recap

By Lili|November 7th, 2017|Categories: Blog Recaps and Roundups|Tags: 2017, Assassin's Creed Origins, Bear Claws, Bossypants, Colorado, Denver, Denver Zoo, Dinos After Dark, dinosaurs, Egypt, Halloween, Haunted House, Jack Whitehall, Mindhunter, North America, Patton Oswald, The Academic, Tina Fey, Zoo|0 Comments

Fall and Halloween is my favorite time of the year. So many fun activities! Early in the month I went to Dinos After Dark at the Denver Zoo and saw some amazing pumpkin carvings and dinosaurs! Then in the middle of the month I went to a haunted house with some co-workers. And of course, it wouldn't be Halloween without some kick ass costumes! This year I was Winifred Sanderson from Hocus Pocus! My backup costume was a Jurassic Park Labtech. Recommended Reading Lili on the Loose I love fall events and put together this list of a lot of fun

6 11, 2017

Travel Missteps: Flooding the Bathroom

By Lili|November 6th, 2017|Categories: Travel, Travel Missteps|Tags: 2004, Asia, bathroom, bidet, Japan, Sister Cities, Sister Cities Japan 2004, toilet, Tokyo|0 Comments

Source Japan was fascinating to us. I mean, how could it not be? We were a group of 10 high school students, some away from home for the first time, as part of an Exchange Group with the Sister Cities Program. And as students, we were joking and horsing around taking it all in. I remember just after checking in, we all raced to one room (thankfully not mine) and were checking out all the buttons on the space age toilet the hotel had. It could play music and sounds. It could warm the seat. And it had buttons

5 11, 2017

Happy Time Travel Invention Day

By Lili|November 5th, 2017|Categories: Geek, Pop Culture|Tags: Back to the Future, BTTF, BTTF 1, Movie, Time Travel, V for Vendetta|0 Comments

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3 11, 2017

Rainbow Candles

By Lili|November 3rd, 2017|Categories: Attractions & Sights, Travel|Tags: 2017, candle, church, Kansas, light, North America, road trip, USA, Victoria|0 Comments

Candles lit in memory of my Grandmother on our trip back. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.

2 11, 2017

Entrance to the Hanging Church of Coptic Cairo

By Lili|November 2nd, 2017|Categories: Attractions & Sights, Photography, Travel|Tags: 2015, Africa, Cairo, church, Coptic Cairo, Coptic Church, Dream of Egypt, Egypt, G Adventures, Hanging Church, Middle East, Travel Thursday|0 Comments

I always marvel at the intricate details of old world churches. Many of the ones where I grew up were large mega churches built during the last few decades. But when I first saw the scale and beauty of churches of Europe I was amazed. And then when I visited Coptic Cairo the ancient Hanging Church was so beautiful. The details of the decorations were so unique. The mesmerizing geometric patters I haven't seen in a church before. Here are just a few photos from the entrance.

1 11, 2017

Egypt Travelogue: Day 11, Part 3 – Luxor Stroll

By Lili|November 1st, 2017|Categories: Travel, Travel Memories, Travelogue|Tags: 2015, Africa, bargaining, Camel, Cruise, cruise ship, Dream of Egypt, earrings, Egypt, Egypt Explorer, Egypt Travelogue, G Adventures, Gadventures, GAP, ghost, Ghost Ship, Luxor, Luxor Temple, Middle East, Nile, Nile Cruise, shopping, Souk, Tea, Zahi Hawass|0 Comments

This is my travel diary of my trip to Egypt. It contains in detail my memories of what I did and saw. Sunday November 1, 2015 Egypt: Day 11, Part 3 – Luxor Stroll In Aswan and Kom Ombo our cruise ship had been tied up in a row with another ship, so we actually left our lobby and entered directly into another ship's lobby before getting to a gangplank to go ashore. However, in Luxor, hundreds of ships were tied up along the shore, sometimes 10 deep. But this time they weren't fancy other cruise ships, but the decaying unused ones.