Spa - Lili on the Loose

1 01, 2024

My Top Instagrams from 2023

By Lili|January 1st, 2024|Categories: Year in Review|Tags: 2023, Boulder, Broadway, Colorado, CORF, Death, instagram, play, Renaissance Fair, RenFair, Seattle, Spa, St. Julien, Tessa, Theater, Washington|0 Comments

This was a tough year. Starting with recovering from Wrist Surgery, plenty of physical therapy, and end ending with the death of my beloved Tessa. My Instagram top 9 is filled with photos from her last few weeks, and many comments from friends and family morning her passing. Thank you. Beyond that, my Instagram was filled with photos from my NYC trip, but it seems beyond a work trip to Seattle, my more interacted posts were from local activities: the Colorado Renaissance Fair, a Spa day at the St. Julien, and catching Beetlejuice in Denver (a few days after

1 01, 2023

My Top Instagrams from 2022

By Lili|January 1st, 2023|Categories: Year in Review|Tags: 2022, Boulder, instagram, Jordan, Spa, The Fray|0 Comments

Let's see. Two posts on The Fray, photos from years ago. 5 Posts around my ill fated trip to Jordan. Two around Spa days. And one on my lovely trip to the BVIs. It was a good and weird year. Here is hoping my wrist heals from surgery and my injury from Jordan so I can get back out there.

1 07, 2019

June 2019 Recap

By Lili|July 1st, 2019|Categories: Blog Recaps and Roundups|Tags: 2019, Boulder, Colorado, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Denver, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, DMNS, Eddie Izzard, Fiddler on the Roof, Good Omens, Last Seen, Legacies, Leonardo da Vinci, Meow Wolf, Natura Obscura, North America, play, Podcasts, Spa, Spa Day, Twelfth Night, Vampier Diaries|0 Comments

June was a very busy month for me! I once again attended the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and this year saw Twelfth Night! Later in the month, I saw Fiddler on the Roof which was so moving! I also took my first day off in a while to have a fun Spa day! I've always wanted to see Eddie Izzard, and managed to get a ticket to see him. He was hilarious and one of the best comedians I've seen. So glad I was able to see him this tour. I had two really good museum days. The first was seeing

1 01, 2019

2018 Year in Review

By Lili|January 1st, 2019|Categories: Year in Review|Tags: 2018, Aladdin, Audiobooks, Banjo Billy, Blog, Book of Mormon, books, Brown Palace, bus, Bus Tour, California, Colorado, comedy, Dandy Warhols, Dead Sea Scrolls, Degas, Denver, Denver Art Museum, Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Getty Museum, Getty Villa, Ghost Hunting, ghost stories, Ghost Tour, Ghost Tours, Gluten Free, Halloween, Hamilton, Harry Potter, Hmailton, King Tut, Lewis Black, Los Angeles, Martin Short, Mexico, Molly Brown, movies, Museums, North America, plays, Puerto Vallarta, Red Rocks, Resolutions, Rick Steves, Santa Monica, Spa, Steve Martin, The Fray, The Getty, Theater, Travel Show, tv, Victorian Horrors, White Christmas, work|0 Comments

2018 was a Year of Culture for me: 10 museums (California Science Center, LA Natural History Museum, La Brea Tar Pits, The Getty, The Getty Villa, The Last Bookstore, Next Stage Gallery, Denver Art Museum x2, Denver Museum of Nature and Science x2, Molly Brown's House) 5 plays (Hamilton, Aladdin, Love's Labour's Lost, Book of Mormon, White Christmas) 4 trips (Puerto Vallarta, Boston, Los Angeles, Orlando) 3 concerts (Dandy Warhols, The Fray, Scottish/Highland Bands) 3 theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Universal Studios, Universal Islands of Adventure) 2 comedy shows (Lewis Black, Steve Martin & Martin Short) 2 ghost tours (Brown Palace,

12 05, 2016

Las Vegas 2016 Cost Analysis

By Lili|May 12th, 2016|Categories: Travel, Travel Budget|Tags: 2016, Bellagio, breakdown, Canyon Ranch Spa, cost analysis, Ethel M chocolate, fossil, gambling, horeseback riding, Las Vegas, Le Rêve, Magic, Mandalay Bay, Neon Museum, Nevada, North America, Penn and Teller, shark reef, shopping, Spa, spending, taxi, The Dream, The Venetian, Travel Thursday, Treasure Island, trilobite, Uber, USA, Vegas Checklist, Zoltar|0 Comments

Wynn Carousel made of flowers. Opulence in Vegas is expected. The last time I was in Las Vegas for a vacation was in 2011. I tracked my budget back then and shared it in this post. I wanted to do the same with my most recent trip to Las Vegas as a comparison. This trip is a little different though. The bulk of my time was for a client event, and so I won't share those numbers here. So while I was in Vegas for 6 days I'll just focus on my free-time activities which accounts for a

27 02, 2016

Upcoming Travel Plans: Solo Las Vegas 2016

By Lili|February 27th, 2016|Categories: Travel, Upcoming Travel|Tags: 2011, 2015, 2016, Africa, aquarium, Bellagio, Canyon Ranch Spa, Egypt, Girl’s Weekend, Giza, Grand Canyon, Great Pyramids, Great Pyramids of Giza, horse, horse back riding, Las Vegas, Le Rêve, Magic, Mandalay Bay, Middle East, Mob Museum, museum, Neon Museum, Nevada, North America, Ocean's 11, Penn and Teller, Pyramid, Spa, The Bellagio, The Dream, The Luxor, The Mirage, The Venetian, The Venetian's Canyon Ranch Spa, The Wynn, USA, Vegas, volcano|0 Comments

Today should be the next post in the Egypt Travelogue series, featuring the Great Pyramids of Giza. But...I ran out of time to write it because I'm planning my next trip to Las Vegas. So instead of the Great Pyramids, here is the pyramid of Vegas at the Luxor! So with your pyramid fix for the day complete, lets talk about Las Vegas. I'll go going for work at a trade show at The Venetian but I've decided to stay a couple of days afterwards on my own. I've been to Vegas many times for various trade shows and I've

17 02, 2016

30 at 30: Best Experiences So Far

By Lili|February 17th, 2016|Categories: Travel, Travel Memories|Tags: Abu Simbel, Africa, Anaheim, Antigua, Asia, Aswan, Bath, Belize, Belize Barrier Reef, Bent Pyramid, birthday, Bostan, California, camping, Canyon Ranch Spa, castle, Caye Caulker, Cenote, Central America, Champ de Elysee, Chino, chocolate, Christmas Market, CIE, Concert, concert photography, Costa Rica, Dahshur, Dashur, DC, Disneyland, Egypt, England, Epiphany Night, Europe, Ewok, fireworks, Florida, France, G Adventures, Gadventures, GAP, Germany, golf carts, Great Britan, Guatemala, Harry Potter, haunted, Ik Kil, Ik Kill cenote, Ireland, Island of Adventure, Italy, Japan, Karnak, Lake Placid, Las Vegas, Latin America, lightsaber, Luxor, Massachusetts, memories, Mexico, Middle East, Munich, museum, Nagano Prefecture, Nevada, New York, North America, Orlando, Paris, photography, Playa Del Carmen, Pyramids, racing, Red Pyramid, reef, Rome, San Francisco, sharks, sheep, Sister Cities, snorkeling, Spa, St. John, Star Wars, Suwa, swimming, temples, The Vatican, Tokyo, tombs, tour, Trafalgar, Trajan's Column, travel experiences, trolly, Tucson, UK, UNESCO, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Universal Studios, USA, USVI, Vatican, Vatican City, Washington DC, white water rafting, Wizarding World of Harry Potter, yukata|1 Comment

Today is my birthday, and I've hit the "Big 3-0". I wanted to look back at 30 of my favorite travel memories in my life, in no particular order: Fulfilling my dream of going to Egypt, seeing so many amazing tombs and temples Sitting alone in the temples of Abu Simbel and Karnak Climbing into and on top of a pyramid Wandering the Christmas Markets of Munich Seeing the castles of Germany Taking a haunted trolly/walking tour of Boston graveyards. Seeing as many museums as I could in Washington, DC Swimming with sharks in Belize Racing golf-carts on Caye Caulker Making

28 05, 2015

Las Vegas Budget & Cost Analysis

By Lili|May 28th, 2015|Categories: Travel, Travel Budget|Tags: 2011, American Storm, analysis, budget, bus, Canyon Ranch Spa, cost, dolphins, Fremont, gambling, Girl’s Weekend, Golden Nugget, Gondola, Las Vegas, Massage, Mirage, Nevada, North America, pool, ride, Secret Garden, Southwest, Spa, Stripper101, The Venetian, The Venetian's Canyon Ranch Spa, Throwback Thursday, tipping, Titanic, USA, Vegas, VIP Lounge, white tiger|0 Comments

Consider this my "Throwback Thursday". I'm slowly moving over posts from my travelpod blog, this is one I did breaking down my costs for a 4 day trip to Las Vegas, NV in April 2011 for a friend's bachelorette party. Las Vegas at Night Originally I wanted to go to Las Vegas after seeing deals on bookit.com but when we actually were ready to book, they didn't seem to have the best deals. I was lucky in the fact that my friend Heather has arranged travel for government agencies and quickly and easily helped plan a good deal