Stars – Photo A Day 10

I am really enjoying this Photo A Day challenge. Thinking of a good photo opportunity every day is actually fun and I really enjoy writing a bit about some of the photos on here.

So May 10th photo theme of the day was “Stars”. I do love stars (chunks of rock in the sky that is, not necessarily hyped-up starlets of Hollywood)! We were on this wonderful road-trip from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon (sooooooo awesome! Go see it if you haven’t yet) and on the way back from hiking in the Grand Canyon National Park we kept craning our necks to see the amazing night sky. It’s something. The desolateness of the desert and the absence of any human-made light sources made this a very humbling experience. Just us three friends and a million stars shining above us in the sky.
And then somebody mentioned scorpios and we all got the heck back into the car and focused on moose on the road instead of constellations in the sky. Ah yes, the wild wild west.

Arizona Sunset
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A Snack – Photo A Day 9

Espresso and Somersaults from WholeFoods. Nom nom. I used to get them on my US Airways flights back in the good old days when I was a “tin” status frequent flyer and got upgraded. Those were the days! (<– what a grown up thing to say!) Not sure if the loathing looks from middle aged business men that were green with envy about my upgrade or the actual snacks were more satisfying… Hmmm hmmm. 😉

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Paper – Photo A Day 5

20130505-153204.jpgI had to think a bit about today’s photo. What was it gonna be?! The Sunday paper? Mother’s Day card to be put in the mail? Passport? Some crazy origami exercise I had yet to find on Pinterest? My thoughts eventually wandered over to my bookshelf and my little collection of photo books. Certainly one of my favorite uses of paper!

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SoCal Round-Up

Oh how wonderful it was to get away from Charlotte’s pollen-loaded spring and spend a week in breezy Southern California. Granted it was for work, this trade show went super smoothly and we had a few hours off as well. A piece of freight went missing but hey, this wasn’t my first rodeo so Plan B went into effect and all was well. Disaster averted!


I always enjoy going to this SoCal show. No I don’t get to experience the flashy & fancy OC tourist experience and there is never any beach time but there is something about the palm trees and the exotic (for this German anyway) flowers that puts me in a good mood. Appears to work on everyone out there, too. People seem perpetually happy and friendly. Oh and have I mentioned the low humidity? My hair seems to jump out of its frizz and stand straight like a soldier as soon as I get off the airplane! Love it!

This was my 4th year there and I still have not made it to DisneyLand but I had a view of it from my hotel (that’s pretty cool for trade show hotel living) and we enjoyed strolling around Downtown Disney one evening and had dinner at ESPN zone. Actually a pretty cool place with OK food. I suppose you go for the sports competitions not a cook-off.

Going as smoothly as the rest of the trade show, dismantle was done midday Sunday and our local rep there took us to this little outdoor outlet mall The Block @ Orange.


The boys lingered after lunch at the prettiest art deco arcade to play video games and I got to do some shopping! 😀 Got to refill my recently decluttered closet… You have no idea how thrilled I was to find a pair of mint pants at H&M for about $20. Who cares if they go out of style next season?! 😉

 

So long SoCal, I’ll see you again next spring and maybe 2014 will be the year that I’ll get to say hi to Mickey Mouse.

 

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