Flight to Amsterdam

Hey y’all! I took Monday off because I was tired from the 11 hour flight home and then we had to drive to pick up the pups from my parents.

I bet you’re wondering how our trip was! Well I’m going to take it day by day and maybe have a few breaks in-between for editing and going over some pictures.

I’m going to start this blogging journey with our flight to Amsterdam. We used rewards points so we had a few stops. We started in Houston and flew to Dallas, then went to Frankfurt and then made it to our final destination, Amsterdam.

We flew Lufthansa Business Class and it was nice! I don’t think I can go back to sitting economy for long distance ever again! We had an updated aircraft so everything was new. We enjoyed out preflight cocktails, before dinner drinks, appetizers, main course and dessert. After all that we settled in for some sleep by reclining our seat into a flat bed…oh so nice! My only complaint here was that the seats made a noise when you moved them and even with earplugs I could still hear everyone adjusting their seats.

We woke up and had some breakfast before landing … you sure get a lot of food up in Business and First Class.

We made our way through the passport and security checkpoints and I will say that they were very rude to us as we went through the security checkpoint. Both Matt and I got a pat-down.

We made it to our connecting flight and on board we were given another meal! Their shorter flight business class consisted of a row of three seats but no one sat in the middle seat. 

When we landed we had about an hour and a half before our free transfer to the hotel. We opted to take advantage of that instead of wasting money on a taxi, bus or train.

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Send a Personal Postcard with Lettr

So I'll admit, I love getting letters and postcards in the mail. I have ever since I was little. I still send out Christmas cards and Thank You notes to friends and family members. And when I'm on vacation I always make an effort to send a post card. Problem with sending a postcard is that the recipient will most likely get it once you are already back from your trip. 

So, I was excited when Lettr approached me to try out their product. Lettr allows you to send your loved ones a postcard with a picture YOU have taken. 

{Here is the Lettr postcard I sent my family while we were on our vacation}

How Lettr works?

Lettr allows travelers to send innovated papery postcard from any place in the world. No need to have a pen, stamp or even a postcard. On the back side of the postcard, there is a message, sender’s signature and a map with the location showing the place where the postcard was created.

- The user takes a picture of his or hers awesome moment. That picture will be printed on the front side of the postcard.

- Sending personalized postcard is that simple. Just a smartphone or laptop with internet connection is required. Once the postcard is created, it is sent to one of our center. Then the order is sent to the closest place of the final destination. We take care of express printing and delivery.

- The postcard is printed on traditional paper, the same kind travelers are used to sending. Delivery time is usually 2-3 days instead of after the traveler returns from vacation.

Lettr has given my readers the chance to send a postcard for free. The first 10 people to click the link will be able to send a personal postcard via Lettr for FREE! Please use the link below.

I want to send a personal postcard for FREE!

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* I received a free postcard for trying the service out, all opinions are my own. I will receive compensation for any future use of the link provided once the 10 free postcards have been used.

Pinspiration

After moving into our new home we had a dilemma, where do we keep the dog food. First, before we bought a dinning room table, we had a sweet little set up for them. But once we had a table we didn't have room for their little buffet. 

{Their old set up equipped with puppy buffet and personal fans}

And it was inconvenient to pull their food out twice a day and then put it back again. So we ended up just leaving them out on the counter… but that didn't look nice. So off to The Container Store we went! They really didn't have any super large glass containers that were air tight so we bought the biggest ones we could find (1.5L). They also didn't have any that would hide what was inside.

I had some chalk board paper that I was able to wrap around the whole canister to conceal most of the dog food.

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Now we can leave it on the counter and it looks cute!

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Travel RoundUp

1 – A group of passengers is suing Carnival Cruise Lines for damages after an engine fire left their ship adrift for days. They are asking the company to pay $5,000 a month for the rest of their lives for medical bills and mental anguish. I think this is a bit much!

2 – A US Airways plane had to abort its takeoff after its nose gear collapsed while leaving Philadelphia International Airport, sending the plane skidding off the runway. Click link to see video!

3 – See what flight attendants really think.

4 – A Delta flight lost part of its wing during a flight from Orlando to Atlanta! Scary!

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5 – I thought these pictures of North Korea from space were really cool.

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6 – An eight-car Chicago commuter train ran across a platform and scaled an escalator at an underground station at Chicago O’Hare…. Go home subway train, you’re drunk! 

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7 – Airlines are now moving to an even tighter economy class, "Slim-fit". From what I can tell they pretty much look like glorified lawn chairs... Check out the video at the bottom of this page link. 

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{Illustration by Heather Jones for TIME, Source}

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The Girl with the Travel Tattoo

Have any of you travelers out there every thought about getting a tattoo commemorate your travels? Here are some people that have!

{Man's tattoo tracks his travels}

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{Texas Tattoo...accompanying song}

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When Vacations Attack

I'm not sure if you would classify this as an attack...maybe and attack of cuteness. One photographer got pretty lucky when a young cheetah got a little curious. 

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p.s. If you want to see a cute movie involving a cheetah check out Duma.

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Facts That Sound like Lies but are Completely True

I found this really fun and interesting page on BuzzFeed titled 77 Facts That Sound like Lies but are Completely True. There were a handful of them that had to with different countries, geography and history and I wanted to share them:

1. Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
2. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
3. The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.

4. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
5. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
6. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.7. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

8. France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.

9. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

10. New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.

{the green line is the straight line...maybe around Capri?}

11. North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.

12. John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has a grandson who’s alive today.

13. Alaska is simultaneously the most northern, the most western, and the most eastern state in the U.S.

14. The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.

15. If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 42 minutes to reach the bottom.

16. Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.

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