But I must admit there was one thing I was excited to do during my very first time at a casino – throw some quarters in a machine, pull a lever, watch my luck flash before my eyes and hope that millions of dollars would come spilling out faster than my hands could grab it. […]
Archive for October, 2009
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
I’d like you to meet Lucy the elephant… She is a little tourist attraction between OC and AC in Jersey. She used to be a hotel and now she is a museum. I had seen her on t-shirts before, but never understood the story or where she came from. She has definitely had a pretty […]
In September during one of my first years in college in Philly, my South Jersey friends took me “down the shore” for the first time. On the way down, I asked them what it was like and they told me there were numbered streets, wooter ice, funnel cake (aka fried dough) and of course, a […]
I am finalizing my Costa Rica trip in December and from what I hear there is going to be some pretty crazy wild life. The last time I really saw some wildlife was at the San Diego Zoo last year. While the animals weren’t roaming free like they will be in Costa Rica, they were […]
Sometimes things look prettier in a tiny little screen, in the dark. But if you look closely, you can find the character in there somewhere. It’s all in your perspective…
Remember when I went to the Boston Globe Travel Show and all of a sudden I kept getting calls saying I won a free trip to anywhere? The catch was that in order to earn what I had allegedly won, I had to go watch a presentation at a hotel in the middle of nowhere […]
Once again, it is officially Blog Action Day 2009 and this year’s focus is on climate change. A new U.N. environment report revealed that healthy oceans are one of the keys to combating climate change and preventing the destruction of marine life could help offset between 3 to 7 percent of current fossil fuel emissions. […]
If you haven’t heard, rugby sevens is officially an Olympic Sport. And as you probably know, I love rugby so this news makes me pretty happy. A whole new world was opened for me when I joined the women’s team at SJU. Before college, I didn’t even know what a rugby ball looked liked. I […]
