Manic Monday GTKY Distraction

[ls2012]

I feel like we could use a non-baby themed thread, especially with newborn angst, crazy toddlers, crap weather, and solo parenting all looming.

So here it goes:

1) What was your favorite band in high school? Favorite song?

2) What's the best vacation place you've been to?

3) What's your favorite way to relax and recharge?

4) If you had a bucket list, what would be at the top?

[ls2012]

1) Band- Offspring. Song- Bad Habit

2) Cancun

3) Weather permitting, going for a morning swim in the lake and doing laps between buoys. Off season, snuggling in bed under a mound of blankets with the fireplace going, a good book, some hot chai, and the door locked.

4) I would want to visit all the ancient wonders of the world: the pyramids, petra, acropolis, parthenon, the great wall, angkor watt, etc.

[loves2shop4shoes]

1) What was your favorite band in high school? Favorite song?

Lifehouse. I liked pretty much every song of theirs

2) What's the best vacation place you've been to?

French Polynesia. DH and I went to seven different islands in FP in October 2014.

The four seasons bora bora is probably the nicest resort I'll ever stay at in my life. My favorite island, though, was Tikehau. Pink sand beaches. Water so clear you could see the ocean floor out to the horizon. It's the most beautiful place I've ever seen, bar none.

3) What's your favorite way to relax and recharge?

Traveling and while away, curling up with a good book.

4) If you had a bucket list, what would be at the top?

Probably traveling to Paris. There's like100 places I want to go though, so I'd settle for "traveling".

ETA: pics!

[ls2012]

Oh my, loves2shop4shoes !! That is gorgeous. (adding to places I need to go)

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1. Dixie Chicks - Cowboy Take Me Away

2. Warm weather - Sit outside with a book and a glass of wine. Cold weather - snuggle in bed and nap.

3. Paris! DH and I have been 3x. Love walking around the 7th Arrondesment (where Eiffel Tower is at.)

4. So many places!
Galway, Ireland
London
Paris - again
Napa Valley
Tuscany
Bordeaux region
Champagne region
List can go on forever apparently...

[billybumbler]

1. Placebo, Pure Morning

2. Fernando de Noronha, an island off the coast of Brazil

3. Read a good book anywhere with a view

4. Visit all kinds of tropical beaches like in the Caribbean, Polynesia and Hawaii

[flyinghorses6]

1) dispatch; flying horses (duhhh)
2) Bahamas before I had K for adult spring break ha ha
3) hot tub session with a good book and drink
4) go to the World Cup

[oldbaylover1024]

1) That's tough! I guess anything by Lit.

2) I went on a Grand Canyon vacation where we helicoptered into the canyon and took row boats down the river. We camped under the stars. It was beautiful.

3) Snuggle up in bed with a good book.

4) Visit my family's hometown in France

[wildflower810]

loves2shop4shoes, those look like pictures out of the Bachelor/Bachelorette!

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1) What was your favorite band in high school? Favorite song? I really loved The Get Up Kids, I think my favorite song was Valentine. Now I want to listen to their album...

2) What's the best vacation place you've been to? Either our honeymoon to Belize or our babymoon to Kauai. Belize we stayed in the jungle for 3 days in a treehouse suite that was amazing then down in an ocean front casita for a week and it was awesome. Kauai however was probably the most beautiful place I have ever been to. I mean look at these mountains on the water! This is me hiking at 24 weeks with DD1 in Kauai:


3) What's your favorite way to relax and recharge? I like to walk down to the beach. In the winter I will just walk to the beach then along the cliffs on the beach her, then in summer I will head down and sit on my chair and read for a few hours to recharge. I also really like the spa:)

4) If you had a bucket list, what would be at the top? I would like to sail from RI to the carribean and spend the winter there sailing around the islands. I read a book called Seasoned by Salt about a couple that did that and we want to do it once our kids are all in college. I think it would be amazing!

[pivot]

1.) Is it bad that I am drawing a blank here? DH and I have always shared a love for Tom Petty. I can also probably rap the top 20 hip hop songs of 2005-2008ish?

2.) We went to St. Lucia for our honeymoon. It's beautiful there but I think one of my favorite parts was riding through the town and eating lunch at one of the locals homes.

3.) A day to myself in town. Nails done, shopping, delicious lunch with a book and then maybe even a movie.

4.) Travel wise - I've always wanted to rent a ballin' RV and take a month and explore the wonders in the US (Grand Canyon, Redwoods, Bryce Canon, Yellowstone, etc.)

Other than travel I want to run a marathon. I ran my first half marathon in 2015 and plan to run another this fall. I need more training before signing up for a full marathon but it's definitely top of my accomplishments bucket list.

[pivot]

@preppy I am intrigued by your Belize trip! DH and I are planning a trip for our five year anniversary next year and want to do jungle/beach. We're torn between Belize and Costa Rica!

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Mar 13, 2017 20:39:14 GMT -5 pivot said:

@preppy I am intrigued by your Belize trip! DH and I are planning a trip for our five year anniversary next year and want to do jungle/beach. We're torn between Belize and Costa Rica!

I loved Belize! I have never been to CR so I can't compare but our trip was fantastic. We stayed at Chaa Creek in the Jungle and at Victoria House on Ambergris Caye.

These treehouse suites are amazing at Chas Creek: www.chaacreek.com/accommodations/belize-treetop-suites

And Victoria House was gorgeous, they filmed the Bachelor there a few weeks before we were there! The restaurants in San Pedro on Ambergris were so fantastic, some of the best fish of my life.

[cosmicav]

1) What was your favorite band in high school? Favorite song?
Oingo Boingo - Private Life
Not because it was like a popular song, but because I am an 80's music forever kind of person. Lol

2) What's the best vacation place you've been to?
I went to Puerto Rico when I was much younger, and it was really beautiful there... but then it was probably hotter than hell. As a family, we went to Disney, and that was a great little vacation. I'd love to do that with the LOs when they are older.

3) What's your favorite way to relax and recharge?
Reading and writing and drawing if I get the time. But I feel like I am always in need of recharging because I am so very introverted.

4) If you had a bucket list, what would be at the top?
I am not much of a traveler. I'd love to go to a big Comic Con and cosplay a family cosplay and buy lots of novelty things. I am also ready to go to see that SOLAR ECLIPSE coming up!

[monicageller]

1) What was your favorite band in high school? Favorite song?

Tim McGraw and fave song would probably be Cowboy in Me... wow, I haven't thought about that song in forever.

2) What's the best vacation place you've been to?

I haven't gone anywhere as exciting as most of you. I have been to the Riviera Maya in Mexico which was beautiful. DH and I also went on a cruise for our honeymoon which we really enjoyed.

3) What's your favorite way to relax and recharge?

Sit in the sun and read... with a glass of wine.

4) If you had a bucket list, what would be at the top?

Well now my bucket list includes going to the place loves2shop4shoes took those pictures!

[notagoddess]

1) Radiohead, and anything off of Kid A

2) Riviera Maya. I've been both with my husband and with my mom, and it was so much fun both times

3) Relax -- downtime on my phone or on Netflix. Recharge -- being out in nature, yoga, reading

4) I really want to travel more. I'd love to go to New Zealand, Japan, and Hawaii to start with.

[notagoddess]

Mar 13, 2017 20:39:14 GMT -5 pivot said:

@preppy I am intrigued by your Belize trip! DH and I are planning a trip for our five year anniversary next year and want to do jungle/beach. We're torn between Belize and Costa Rica!

pivot I can't speak to Belize but Costa Rica is amazing! Probably the most beautiful place I've seen. I visited the Manuel Antonio National Park and surrounding region and it was just gorgeous. Very safe and affordable, too.