22 06, 2019

Souvenir Saturday: Silver Earrings from Luxor

By |June 22nd, 2019|Categories: Souvenirs, Travel|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

I got these beautiful silver earrings from Moses a top recommended jeweler in Luxor. You can find it across the street from the start of the Souk and a few shops down. If faces the wonderful Luxor Temple. These now make it into my regular rotation I love them so much! Souvenir Saturday is an every-other week series on the items that represent travel memories.

17 06, 2019

Museum Monday: Amargasaurus

By |June 17th, 2019|Categories: Dinosaurs, Museums, Travel|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

This Amargasaurus fossil is really fascinating. Known from only one skeleton that was mostly complete, it has a unique feature of two parallel rows of tall spines down its body. A long time ago people thought that these spines supported a sail, but now it is thought they were defensive structures that jutted out of the body. One part that was missing was most of the skull, so this is an assumption of what it looked like. Museum Monday is an every other week series about museum news, objects, and reviews.

10 06, 2019

Travel Missteps: What you don’t want to see on a beach vacation

By |June 10th, 2019|Categories: Travel, Travel Missteps|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

I had been shopping for clothes for my upcoming Egypt trip, and I had found the pretty swimsuit top at an outlet mall an hour outside of Miami. I was already a bit shaken up after a fiasco with my Uber, so as soon as I got back to my hotel, I eagerly threw on the swimsuit to head out to the beach. Except...I couldn't. The dang security badge was still on! And there wasn't any nearby stores that could take it off. I was pissed. Thankfully I had an old ugly swimsuit as a backup, but it was a good

1 06, 2019

May 2019 Recap

By |June 1st, 2019|Categories: Blog Recaps and Roundups|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

This was a slow month. We still had some major snowstorms and hail. I also went to a Gluten Free Food festival and had a blast. Found a lot of new products to try out! Recommended Reading Lili on the Loose My favorite post of the month: Han Solo in Carbonite Lunch Box. Other Blogs Top two articles I read were these churches in Rome, and this great article a college friend, Becky, wrote on a Van Gogh Exhibit. Books After finishing the Book of Life, I read the spin off book Time's Covenant. I had heard the person who