Adventures in Travel and Life
We recently returned from a short trip to Costa Rica. This was our second trip there. We wanted to go somewhere warm and sunny to escape the winter blues. Costa Rica seemed like the perfect place since we had such a great time on our first trip. We chose Jaco as the destination for this …
In May 2010, we went to Costa Rica for a 10 day vacation with a group of friends. Our itinerary included San Jose, Arenal Volcano, Monteverde Cloud Forest, and Manuel Antonio National Park. We explored San Jose for a day then headed off to Arenal Volcano. The drive to the Arenal Observatory Lodge from San …
Every visitor to Xian, China will be asked if they would like to attend a Tang Dynasty show. Be sure dinner is included in the price of admission. I highly, highly recommend seeing it. The performance is lovely. Apologies for the low res video, but it should give you a small glimpse into the type …
On my first trip to China I went to the Beijing Opera. It was a unique experience unlike anything I had heard before. Here are two short videos from my first Chinese Opera experience. https://youtu.be/W61UwG9pPhchttps://youtu.be/dJNWrHMpB-8 On another trip to Hangzhou, China I stumbled across an opera performance in a park. As you can see in …
I was watching House Hunters International on HGTV the other day about a couple from California looking to buy a house in Penang, Malaysia. It turns out the woman writes a blog I read on Malaysian cooking called Rasa Malaysia (http://rasamalaysia.com). I found her blog about a year ago. After returning from a trip to …
While we were on our Disney Cruise over Thanksgiving, we had the opportunity to watch the ship’s bakery staff assemble and decorate the Gingerbread House.
Day 6 – Day at Sea What a great way to spend a holiday like Thanksgiving…at sea all day! We slept in, had a late breakfast, then watched John Charles, Musician/Comedian, perform his family show. We watched Monsters University in the Buena Vista Theatre and later saw watched Brave in our stateroom. Before dinner, …
The weather was sunny but windy. The boat docked at Punta Langosta pier which is a great location for shopping and restaurants. We had a leisurely breakfast then headed off the ship for some shopping. When we exited the pier we were inundated with men trying to get us to come into their stores. …
This adult only area on deck 13 is quiet and relaxing. If you get too hot you can soak away the heat under the satellite.
