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The Questions To Answer:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What college did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Where You are from?

Here is how you can play too:

• Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search
• Using only the first page, pick an image.
• Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

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Ash Cloud...

...didn't stop me. I made it to, through, and from Europe; despite Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano's best efforts to prevent it. I will be posting pictures and stories asap... please to enjoy the visual spoils to come.

My itinerary:

Day ____

1. Barcelona, Spain
2. Barcelona, Spain
3. Day in the Mediterranean Sea
4. Naples, Positano, Sorrento, Pompeii, Italy
5. Rome, Italy
6. Pisa and Florence, Italy
7. Nice and Eze, France
8. Cassis, France
9. Barcelona, Spain & Paris, France
10. Paris, France
11. Paris, France and London, England
12. London, England
13. London, England
14. London, England
15. London, England and Seattle, Washington

(in which the pictures and stories will be organized by day/location)

Contents of Pickpocketers Wallet

1. $0.99 Perlina wallet from Goodwill
2. 2 LDS Pass Along missionary cards
3. Personalized note to lucky winner
4. Receipt to return wallet, should one want to do that
5. Some "Silver" in coin (Canadian), card (Jeans tag), and bill (Honduras) form
6. Chinese fortune cookie message...(hey some people pay to get their fortunes read...or a cookie)

"You will soon be involved in many gatherings, parties, and communications"

I knew I liked these guys...

I have really respected how these cousins have been working this season. Rather than tear others down these two have supported and built each other and their competition up. They want to have those that challenge their workouts surrounding them rather than taking the easy route.

Go Koli! Go Sam!!

Take that Pickpocketers...

One warning that Rick Steves' guide books states about many of the places that I am planning on visiting: "Remember, pickpocketing attempts throughout Europe can be expected unless you wear a moneybelt under your clothing. Smart travelers leave wallets at home and store their credit cards, passport, paper money and rail ticket(s) in a secure moneybelt." Well as a smart traveler I have my money belt ready to use. But as I was thinking about this phenomenon, I decided that I would like to see some of these performances. So I went out and purchased this:

"fake pickpocketers wallet"

I am going to put a note or some such in it and hope that I will not be coming home with it again...

Europe Finally

It has been a dream of mine to visit Italy one day. In 5 days I will board a plane that will hopefully make this dream a reality. Hopefully volcano eruptions will hold off to allow me to do this. On my To Do list this week?

1. Enjoy the week with the kids I nanny for


2. Decide what clothes/accessories/shoes will fit into a single carry-on


3. Pack winning clothes/accessories/shoes into said carry-on


4. Print up traveling documents


5. Double check that my passport is with me- ready to go


6. Pick the perfect reading material to keep me occupied for my flights


7. Make it to the airport on time :)

To Italy, Spain, France, and England I go!

Happy Earth Day

I went bike riding on the BertGilman Trail today. The weather was just about perfect - not too hot but not so cold that your nose begins to run in the cold air - As I was pedaling along the water and enjoying the sounds of nature I came across a person standing on the side of the path. I rode past him and as I did so he stepped out to hand me a dandelion and proclaim while smiling -

"Happy Earth Day!"

So I am here to pass the sentiment on to you, take a moment to breathe in and appreciate our Earth today.

Luck Changes

I am looking to do for 2010, a resolution per se, to "change my luck". I want this year to be different, and I have realized that in order for this to happen...I have to DO something different. So here is my promise: I am going to do things out of my comfort zone, things I would typically shy away from- and I will report them here.

Starting with New Year's Eve.


Scene: LDS Singles Dance...enough said. TBA.

Scene: Mo's, Katy, Texas. Along with some gal pals go out dancing, real dancing, a la country and live band dancing. The moment I walk into the place I notice the tall clean cut cowboy, a white cowboy hat that is about 6 and a half feet off the ground. Perfect. All evening I keep an eye on him. I heard somewhere that eye contact is key. Well, last song of the night, I just do it. I ask him to dance. It was good. Thanks Robert, another chance to change my luck as this was something I would have shied away from.

Scene: Cruising. I went on my first cruise back in 2006 with Bonnie and Jen. We had all recently or were planning to be done with college within the past year. So thanks to Bonnie's connections and planning we met in Florida to leave on a cruise to Key West, Florida and Cozumel, Mexico. Now from this experience I learned a few things, but most of all, the fact that I LOVED CRUISES. Along with this I went with my parents on a "Birthday Cruise". Had another fabulous time. But the one I am looking forward to is the Meditteranean Cruise come May. 5 ports in Italy, 2 in France, and 1 in Spain. Europe here I come. I will have to report on how things go. But a little advice to others. DO NOT use Piper Weston through Toscana Travel to book a cruise. It has been nothing but headaches.