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20 11, 2017

Travel Missteps: Strip now!

By Lili|November 20th, 2017|Categories: Travel, Travel Missteps|Tags: 2011, Austira, Bavaria, Christmas, Christmas in Germany 2011, clean, Europe, Germany, Munich, pantless, pants, Salzburg, strip|0 Comments

We had been traveling for hours in the cold. Over 4 hours to be exact. On trains, and metros, and taxis. We wanted to get into our comfy rented apartment and crash before heading back out to Munich's Christmas Markets. But it was December 23rd in Germany, and most everything would be closed for a few days over Christmas. So we dropped our bags at the entrance and went off in search of food and supplies. After getting plenty of provisions, we were ready to climb the 4 flights of marble stairs (luggage in tow). However, our German housekeeper was...quite

17 11, 2017

Piercing the Sky

By Lili|November 17th, 2017|Categories: Art, Local, Photography|Tags: Colorado, Denver, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, DMNS, North America, Photo Friday, Prism, USA|0 Comments

An art exhibit near the Denver Art Museum. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.

16 11, 2017

The Rothenburg Schneeball (Snowball)

By Lili|November 16th, 2017|Categories: Food, Food & Drink, Travel|Tags: 2011, Bavaria, Christmas in Germany 2011, Europe, Germany, Rothenburg, rothenburg ob der tauber, Schneeball, snowball, Travel Thursday|0 Comments

Walking around Rothenburg ob der Tauber I kept seeing these snowball-sized round balls. They are called Schneeball (Snowball) and are a local creation. It is pie dough wrapped into a ball, deep fried, and traditionally covered in powdered sugar. As you can see, many different varieties are now sold! Try one if you find yourself in Rothenburg!

13 11, 2017

Review: Ultimate Dinosaurs at DMNS

By Lili|November 13th, 2017|Categories: Dinosaurs, Museums, Travel|Tags: Colorado, Cretaceous, Cretaceous period, Denver, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Dinosaur, DMNS, fossil, North America, Ultimate Dinosaurs, USA|0 Comments

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has a wonderful temporary Dinosaur exhibit. Nearly all of the fossils displayed were new to me, so that was exciting. This exhibit features many recently discovered southern hemisphere dinosaurs. What really wowed me was walking into the main room and seeing all of the massively large fossils. Every other place I've seen dinosaurs at, there was just one or two, and never a full room of them. So I just stood fascinated by these huge animals for a bit before going up and looking at the details. I'll be posting follow up posts on

11 11, 2017

Souvenir Saturday: Candy from Harry Potter Part 3

By Lili|November 11th, 2017|Categories: Souvenirs, Travel|Tags: 2012, 2016, Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, Diagon Alley, Florida, Glacial Snow Flakes, Harry Potter, Hogsmeade, Honeydukes, Islands of Adventure, Magical Weekend, North America, Orlando, Orlando Adventure 2012, Snow Melts, Universal, Universal Studios, USA, Wizarding World, Wizarding World of Harry Potter|0 Comments

This is the last in the 3 part series of my favorite candy you can get at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! I got these on a whim, and they are so delicious! There are multiple versions of the snowflakes and they have a nice peppermint flavor in the white chocolate, which a little shimmer on the top! And finally, Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans! These are just as classic as Chocolate Frogs! Souvenir Saturday is an every-other week series on the items that represent travel memories.

10 11, 2017

The Price of Freedom

By Lili|November 10th, 2017|Categories: Attractions & Sights, Photography, Travel|Tags: 2013, DC, Freedom Wall, Memorial, Museum Madness, National Mall, National World War II Memorial, North America, Photo Friday, stars, USA, Washington DC, World War II|0 Comments

Tomorrow is Veteran's Day. These stars are on the National WWII memorial, each star representing 100 US personnel that died in the war. There is a plaque that says "Here marks the price of freedom". Very sobering. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.

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