This week I celebrated my 41st birthday. This was my cake last year, for my 40th. Yes, it was Wonder Woman (don’t judge. This year I had rainbows and unicorns. When I was 20, I had a Rainbow Brite cake.). My birthday wish is to see more of the world and come here to share it with you!
This photo could have been taken anywhere. Cuba? Hawaii? In fact, it was in Fort Lauderdale. I was there for a travel bloggers’ conference and took a kayak tour of a river. Coconuts were our refreshment. Funny how something so simple can be so delicious and seem so exotic!
A brief history lesson: Acadians came from French-speaking parts of Canada during the Louisiana Purchase. Before that, they’d been in France. So the French language permeated for decades in Southern Louisiana. Only, as it is prone to happen, people began to decide that this “backwoods” language shouldn’t be tolerated in America, and so efforts were made to squelch the language. I knew all of this, but learned even more when Mom and I visited Vermilionville, a living history museum dedicated to early Cajun culture. This photo illustrates how, if students in school in the late 1800s spoke French, they were…
If you live nowhere near a beach, you probably aren’t aware that beach cities like San Diego host sand sculpture competitions. It’s amazing what people can do with sand, a little water, and a spade. The beautiful irony is that tomorrow, they’ll return as sand particles to the beach.