You have to actually lend it to someone by August 14th - but hurry because there are a limited number of $25's that Kiva is giving out.
7 years ago
Monday, August 1, 2011
Want $25 Free from KIVA to loan to someone in need?
It's the gift that keeps on giving....once the person pays it back, you can loan it to someone else. It doesn't have to cost you a penny to do some good. Although you could always lend some of your own money if you want.
You have to actually lend it to someone by August 14th - but hurry because there are a limited number of $25's that Kiva is giving out.
You have to actually lend it to someone by August 14th - but hurry because there are a limited number of $25's that Kiva is giving out.
Monday, July 25, 2011
My Road Trip Buddies
They were SO good on the drive to Vegas- only one melt down & I would have done the same thing if I had been woken up after only 30 min of napping. Thank goodness for the DVD player in "grandma's" car and for ipods! (Jack wanted to take my car, but I told him it didn't have a DVD player in it, so he agreed we should take grandma's car instead. They both wanted to bring Madison with us, but when I asked them where he would go to the bathroom - litter box in the car?!? LOL - they thought it was ok to let him stay home.)
We had so much fun & they were ecstatic to see their mom & dad! We ended Jack's Birthday in Vegas (4 yrs old) with yummy food from Steak 'n Shake, presents, mini cupcakes, a sleep-over in aunt Amy's hotel room & Cars 2 the next day.
I was sad to say good bye to my favorite little munchkins after 3 weeks, but I'm counting down the days until my next AZ visit (or another Vegas trip if "grandpa" has anything to say about it - since he & my mom couldn't make it this weekend).
I was sad to say good bye to my favorite little munchkins after 3 weeks, but I'm counting down the days until my next AZ visit (or another Vegas trip if "grandpa" has anything to say about it - since he & my mom couldn't make it this weekend).
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
China: November 2011
Thailand got cxld due to insane airfare rates.
Anyone want to go to China?
- If so, I need to know ASAP (by Friday at the latest....$ isn't due for a little while, but once you commit, you can't cancel!).
It's going to be awesome!
Here are the details I have right now (if you're not in SLC, we can take the SLC-SFO airfare out and add in airfare from wherever you are):
THE VERY BEST OF CHINA
12 days, leaving SLC on Wednesday November 2, 2011 and returning on Sunday November 13, 2011.
Here are the highlights of this trip:
1. This trip is what most travel authorities consider to be the best itinerary covering China’s travel treasures: Beijing, Xian, Guilin, Suzhou and Shanghai.
2. You will experience two of the seven modern wonders of the world – The Great Wall and the Terracotta Warriors.
3. In Beijing you will experience Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, The Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, the Hutongs district of old Beijing, ride in a rickshaw and lunch with a local Chinese family.
4. In Xian you will experience the grandeur of one of China’s oldest cities completely surrounded by a thirty-foot wall. You will see the Bell and Drum towers built in 1384. You will visit the Terracotta Warriors, the most significant archeological discover of modern day. You will visit a rural village and a primary school in central China.
5. In Guilin, the most picturesque area of all China, you will cruise by boat down the Li River and view, as the old Chinese saying describes, “the best scenery under heaven.”
6. In Shanghai you will experience China’s largest and most dynamic city with a population of 18 million people. A walk along the Bund, with the landmark buildings of Shanghai on one side and the Huangpu River on the other will be an experience and memory you will never forget.
7. Suzhou is often referred to as the “Venice of the East” with its many canals. You will visit breathtakingly beautiful gardens and take a ride in a gondola. You will visit a silk spinning mill and learn how silk is created.
8. For the return home, you will ride on the famed Maglev train, a magnetically levitated train traveling 287 mph covering the twenty miles between Shanghai and the Pudong Airport in less than 8 minutes.
We have negotiated all meals, including a Beijing Duck dinner and 5 star hotels as part of this package.
This trip will be absolutely amazing. Even if you have traveled to China before, you will see and experience things you never imagined. The full price for this incredible trip is $4,980 per couple.
This trip includes:
1. * Round trip airfare from SLC to Beijing.
2. * Internal airfare from Beijing to Xian, Guilin, Shanghai, Beijing
3. * All bus transportation, tours, entrance fees, etc.
Other Cost you will incur on your own:
1. * Passport
2. * China Visa (approximately $170 per person). Once we have your passport, I will facilitate the Visa process for everyone in the group.
Anyone want to go to China?
- If so, I need to know ASAP (by Friday at the latest....$ isn't due for a little while, but once you commit, you can't cancel!).
It's going to be awesome!
THE VERY BEST OF CHINA
12 days, leaving SLC on Wednesday November 2, 2011 and returning on Sunday November 13, 2011.
Here are the highlights of this trip:
1. This trip is what most travel authorities consider to be the best itinerary covering China’s travel treasures: Beijing, Xian, Guilin, Suzhou and Shanghai.
2. You will experience two of the seven modern wonders of the world – The Great Wall and the Terracotta Warriors.
3. In Beijing you will experience Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, The Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, the Hutongs district of old Beijing, ride in a rickshaw and lunch with a local Chinese family.
4. In Xian you will experience the grandeur of one of China’s oldest cities completely surrounded by a thirty-foot wall. You will see the Bell and Drum towers built in 1384. You will visit the Terracotta Warriors, the most significant archeological discover of modern day. You will visit a rural village and a primary school in central China.
5. In Guilin, the most picturesque area of all China, you will cruise by boat down the Li River and view, as the old Chinese saying describes, “the best scenery under heaven.”
6. In Shanghai you will experience China’s largest and most dynamic city with a population of 18 million people. A walk along the Bund, with the landmark buildings of Shanghai on one side and the Huangpu River on the other will be an experience and memory you will never forget.
7. Suzhou is often referred to as the “Venice of the East” with its many canals. You will visit breathtakingly beautiful gardens and take a ride in a gondola. You will visit a silk spinning mill and learn how silk is created.
8. For the return home, you will ride on the famed Maglev train, a magnetically levitated train traveling 287 mph covering the twenty miles between Shanghai and the Pudong Airport in less than 8 minutes.
We have negotiated all meals, including a Beijing Duck dinner and 5 star hotels as part of this package.
This trip will be absolutely amazing. Even if you have traveled to China before, you will see and experience things you never imagined. The full price for this incredible trip is $4,980 per couple.
This trip includes:
1. * Round trip airfare from SLC to Beijing.
2. * Internal airfare from Beijing to Xian, Guilin, Shanghai, Beijing
3. * All bus transportation, tours, entrance fees, etc.
Other Cost you will incur on your own:
1. * Passport
2. * China Visa (approximately $170 per person). Once we have your passport, I will facilitate the Visa process for everyone in the group.
http://pinterest.com
check it out - it's such a cool way to keep track of things you run across on the internet - design ideas, recipes, funny stuff....whatever.
check it out - it's such a cool way to keep track of things you run across on the internet - design ideas, recipes, funny stuff....whatever.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
1 week and I'll be enjoying the warm AZ weather and....
MySpace-Countdown-Clocks
(Can you tell I'm freezing? It's 20 degrees right now.)
And no, i didn't all the sudden think, let me blog about the weather, or my 2 upcoming trips. I was updating the blog for work, and decided to look at my lame blog. When I saw how long it had been, and that the last post was about Hawaii, it got me thinking about how cold it is today & how I can't wait to go to AZ and Mexico.
Monday, November 1, 2010
I Love My Sister, and She Loves Coconut Macaroons!
I was thinking about a recent message Angela left me & I started to laugh again - hopefully with her (oh, who am I kidding, I laughed at her too ;-)
The topic of the message was the coconut macaroons that Turtle Bay leaves on guests beds when they do the turn down service. (google is awesome, because someone else took these great pics!)
I won't tell you how many of these cookies Ang ate - since I don't know and she probably lost count.
They were delicious! - the only thing that would have made them better is if they would have been dipped in Peter's Chocolate!
Love ya Ang!!!
ps (remember when I said "do I really have to save one of these for mom" and you said "yes"... so I did? hmmm, just a thought.)
The topic of the message was the coconut macaroons that Turtle Bay leaves on guests beds when they do the turn down service. (google is awesome, because someone else took these great pics!)
I won't tell you how many of these cookies Ang ate - since I don't know and she probably lost count.
They were delicious! - the only thing that would have made them better is if they would have been dipped in Peter's Chocolate!
Love ya Ang!!!
ps (remember when I said "do I really have to save one of these for mom" and you said "yes"... so I did? hmmm, just a thought.)
Monday, October 25, 2010
I miss Hawaii!
I am FREEZING!!!!!
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| Temperature today in SLC @ 3 pm |
VS
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| View from my balcony @ Turtle Bay - it was in the mid 80's all 10 days we were on Kauai and Oahu. |
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Kudos to Lands End
2 posts in one day? maybe my blogging dry spell is over (but I won't hold my breath for the next post).
I just thought I'd publicly give 2 thumbs up to Lands' End's customer service. I placed an order a few days ago and today I saw that the swimming suit & pareo I bought had gone on sale...so I found out their price adjustment policy is 14 days. I emailed them and they told me my refund would be $36.20 I looked at the number and thought, that's not right. How in the world did they come up with that number. I tried a couple of different ways to figure it out ... to no avail (my aspirations to become a high school math teacher pay off sometimes ... ok, just kidding, it was simple math that any 4th grader could have done.)
So, I emailed them back and asked them how they came up with that amount & showed them how I arrived at the amount I came up with, and within the hour I received a response apologizing for their mistake and telling me they would refund the difference between their wrong amount and the right amount (my math was right).
To top it off, all of this occurred in less than 2 hours. They're quick. I've emailed some .com retailers and not received a response for 2 days (can you say frustrating?!).
Way to go Lands' End customer service. I can honestly say it makes me want to do business with them again, because I know if there's ever a problem, they'll make it right. (although they wouldn't honor my request to use a coupon code for an additional $10 off. oh well, I tried. Now I just hope I like what I bought and they fit.)
ps Ang, Tasha & Jessi, if you're looking for swimming suits for Hawaii, you may want to check out landsend.com - their swimwear is on sale.
I just thought I'd publicly give 2 thumbs up to Lands' End's customer service. I placed an order a few days ago and today I saw that the swimming suit & pareo I bought had gone on sale...so I found out their price adjustment policy is 14 days. I emailed them and they told me my refund would be $36.20 I looked at the number and thought, that's not right. How in the world did they come up with that number. I tried a couple of different ways to figure it out ... to no avail (my aspirations to become a high school math teacher pay off sometimes ... ok, just kidding, it was simple math that any 4th grader could have done.)
So, I emailed them back and asked them how they came up with that amount & showed them how I arrived at the amount I came up with, and within the hour I received a response apologizing for their mistake and telling me they would refund the difference between their wrong amount and the right amount (my math was right).
To top it off, all of this occurred in less than 2 hours. They're quick. I've emailed some .com retailers and not received a response for 2 days (can you say frustrating?!).
Way to go Lands' End customer service. I can honestly say it makes me want to do business with them again, because I know if there's ever a problem, they'll make it right. (although they wouldn't honor my request to use a coupon code for an additional $10 off. oh well, I tried. Now I just hope I like what I bought and they fit.)
ps Ang, Tasha & Jessi, if you're looking for swimming suits for Hawaii, you may want to check out landsend.com - their swimwear is on sale.
Yes, It's Worth Blogging About
Now we all know that this
is the actual single serving size.
But....it's nice to have these
around because somehow there's more guilt when eating multiple 3.6 oz containers than one 14 oz container (go figure).....but not always ;-)
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| 14 FL OZ |
is the actual single serving size.
But....it's nice to have these
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| 3.6 FL OZ |
around because somehow there's more guilt when eating multiple 3.6 oz containers than one 14 oz container (go figure).....but not always ;-)
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