Early in December, Mr. Wonderful and I were able to take a little escape away just over the Oklahoma border into Texas from the holiday season craziness to Tanglewood Resort in Pottsboro, Texas. And by escape, I mean a SORELY needed escape due to wrapping paper, ordering gifts, still recovering from Thanksgiving and all the…
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Continue ReadingKayla and Brettley and I toured San Francisco a bit last week. Just enough to really make me want to see more. We stayed at the beautiful Sir Francis Drake Hotel in Union Square. It is the grande dame of “boutique hotels” you can lodge at in San Francisco. There is even a red…
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Continue ReadingWhile we were in Estes Park for Spring break, we had to drive down the mountian one day because Mr. Wonderful had found us a Craigslist find – a car top luggage rack that would let the three kids be able to put their feet on the floor of my Mountaineer on the 11 hour…
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Continue ReadingOne of the places I really wanted to visit when were in Los Angeles was.. The Chinese Theater? With the stars names in the sidewalk? NOPE. The Hollywood sign? NOPE. All of those things are things you see all the time from visitors in L.A., but Mr. Wonderful and I didn’t feel like fighting the…
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We woke up Thursday morning when we were in Marina del Rey, and decided it was the day. It was the day to brave L.A. traffic. Big GULP. All I can say is …thank goodness for GPS machines once again. We started out in Santa Monica where we were going to go eat lunch at…
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Continue ReadingYesterday we spent the day driving up the coast of California. The crazy busyness of our lives of late led us to rent a car, and just lazily drive with no real time-frame involved. No deadlines, no hurried rushing to the next place. We stopped when we wanted to and drove when we wanted to.…
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Continue ReadingStrange fact about me. I have never been to the west coast. The furthest I’ve ventured is a one week trip to Vegas in August, that made me feel like I was living under a giant blowdryer and sent me home whining. But I’ve always wanted to see the Pacific. And for the first time…
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With restaurant review sites cropping up all over the place, this article by Ken on Urbanspoon made my smile in satisfaction. It’s an article on what not to do when commenting on a restaurant on Urbanspoon. When I first started writing restaurant reviews, I really had no idea what I was doing. I just knew that Mr.…