showers

In the words of Liz Lemon: I want to go to there

{found here via here}

Bruce Munro's light installation at Salisbury Cathedral. Fun Fact: it was officially lit on my birthday. Visit the link for more details and photos.

live the language

these videos are from the EF language schools. so adorable!


EF - Live The Language - Paris from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.


EF - Live The Language - London from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.

when will you realize

hmmm sometimes I need to remember this:


I just happened to find Billy Joel song set to Breakfast at Tiffany's. Love the song, love the movie.
It was rough day. This is helping turn it around. Also helping, drinks and dinner at BJs with the boy and one of his awesome friends later tonight.

free passes

While the opportunity to see priceless works of art in person will always be a cherishable experience, not all of us have the time or money to travel to some of these museums.

Enter Google Art Project.

The Google Street View of the museum world. Not only can you enjoy virtual tours of some of the best and most famous musuems in the world, but the photography is such high-resolution quality that you can actually zoom in close enough to see individual brush strokes.

{super zoomed in section of Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son"}

What will they think of next?!
(via audrey hepburn complex)

I'm Still Standing

So remember that jetsetter site I told you about? Where they have specially discounted vacations for members? (let me know if you want in, I'll hook you up!). I was scrolling through their weekly email of various locations where I would like to be in lieu of working 12 hour days. Paris, Hawaii, Elton John's Oscar Party...WAIT WHAT? for reals? I don't have to be invited?? Score!

{via jetsetter}

Um I'm kind of an Elton John fan. I LOVE him (but as Fiance says, "he doesn't love you back" lol). Seeing Elton perfom live is kind of on my life list. I was super sad when he ended his show in vegas before I could make it out there. So I've been holding out on Fiance becoming famous and getting invited to the oscars and then Elton inviting us to his party, because we'd be awesome like that.

But now thanks to Jetsetter, apparently you can just buy your way into that stuff. Problem #1, the oscars are the day after the wedding, so we'll be on a plane to new york. (minor detail right?). Problem #2, right now you can only preview dates, you can't see prices yet. So it probably still costs like a million dollars. So I guess that means no Elton, THIS time around. maybe next year? ;)

Ok excited rant over. this counts as a travel post right? oh well it's my blog and I do what I want!