Vacation For FREE!!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hampton Hotels. All opinions are 100% mine.

Are you working in an office? Would it be a wrong if after a busy week doing lots of paper work, you will have a weekend getaway in your favorite spot? Or maybe you are working at home; is it too much to travel with friends after a week’s hard work? I don’t think so, as the saying say “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy,” we all need to have a break from our usual routine. That’s why, having a weekend vacation with your friends would be so rewarding especially if you can get it for free. Yes, Free!! Hampton Hotel is giving you a chance to spend your weekend with your friends and reconnect with each other. Enter Hampton Chain of Friends Sweepstakes and have a chance to win a weekend stay with three of your friends daily or an entire hotel accommodation for the grand prize. Isn’t it great? All you have to do is head on to Hampton’s Official website and fill up their form, and viola you already have a chance to win on their raffle.

If I will win this raffle, I would choose to stay at Hampton Inn® hotel in Las Vegas North Speedway. Yes, I want to see and experience the thrill of the “Entertainment Capital of the World.” How about you? Take your pick now and enter Hampton’ Chain of friends sweepstakes.

When You're Lost..

Have you ever been to a place and suddenly you realized you were lost? It is really nice to be out on yourself and discover a whole new city. It is quote exciting to be lost and navigate around without even knowing where you are going to. It is a very liberating experience. It is a very nice escapade to discover your surroundings but there are times when you still need to know where you are. There are times that you need to know where you can dine in or where you can find banks Manchester. Granted that you are indeed in Manchester. Of course if you are in other foreign land, you will have to look for the specific name of the country you are in and then the establishment you are looking.

Imagine you are visiting Manchester (since it has been mentioned already) and having the best time taking photos of their unique architecture. Of course, with that energy, you are bound to get hungry soon. It would be really helpful if you have looked for Manchester pizza before hand. What else can fill your growling stomach but a nice slice of pizza and an ice cold drink (a beer or soda will do). But of course, you need to know what kind of pizzas their serving, that is why, it is better that you search for the store first before going out and being a building paparazzi.

How about when you are out to buy souvenirs in shops in Manchester? The best thing to look for is banks in Manchester. It would be nice to know where the nearest bank is. And where you get the money you need without much hassle. You would not want to ruin your vacation just because you can't find an ATM. Thank goodness that searching for those things are now as easy as updating your profile in your favorite social networking site.

Cruise Baby Cruise

Cruise Ship is a passenger ship that is also called cruise liner. This is a pleasure long journey, where in the journey and the time spent in the ship and the amenities enjoyed inside the ship is part of the journey/ experience of the travelers or cruisers. The destinations is also part of the experience. In usual setting, the passengers are returned to the port where they started the cruise. The cruise take days and they go on route. As it is based on route, there are different kinds of cruises and each are named on the route it will going to take.

If you are looking for adventure, relaxation, fun and family bonding, Royal Caribbean is the cruise line for you. This offers 170 destinations. There is so much you can do. The cruise is like having a multiple vacation rolled into one. Imagine the things that are offered in this cruise. You can do Kayaking and sea surfing. And not only that, you can also experience ice skating. It's like being in different continents and experiencing different weathers.

Want a restaurant that is open around the clock? Be treated like a princess in Princess Cruises. This cruise is all about choice. The passenger can say what she likes and dislikes and the staff will make her dreams possible (at reasonable boundaries of course). Cunard Cruises is the most famous and most luxurious cruise. It sails to the seven seas. If you want a superior cruise experience, Cunard is the one for you.

Planning on a cruise can be really simple, finances aside, all you have to do is prepare yourself for some indulgence, pampering and adventure. Of course you also need to bring appropriate clothes, you wouln't want to feel cold during your ice skating experience. Other than that, no need to plan your trip, no more travel itinerary that sometimes spoil the fun.

Avalon Waterways New All-Inspired Panorama Suite Ship

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Avalon Waterways. All opinions are 100% mine.

It has been my dream to be on a cruise, so when Avalon Waterways offers a 3d ship tour on their website,www.avalonwaterways.com, I just have to see it. It showcases the rooms and some amenities on the ship. The tour begins with the outside look of the ship and then to the reception area and to the rooms which features Open-Air Balcony. From there you can have a look of different places that you will pass by on the cruise. If it is a Europe river cruise, you will pass by Budapest in Hungary, Dürnstein in Austria, Bamberg in Germany and a lot more. You will enjoy all these scenery straight from your bed, thanks to the Avalon Waterways New All-Inspired Panorama Suite Ship.

And if you have seen the 3d tour, you will notice how big the ship was. And yes, it offers 1550 percent more suits to any other river cruise vessel available in Europe. The Panaroma is the first of its kind. And if you are up for a party, you can have the Panorama Suite, a 200 square foot suite that can fit 100 cruisers. Why is it best to party in the Panorama suite? Well, Avalon Waterways is always the first one to introduce new ships in Europe than any other, so you are guaranteed that you will be experiencing something you had not experienced in any other ship before. Aside from that, their vessels are 30 percent larger (on the average) than the standard river cruise vessels.

If you have been to a European river cruise before, you know that the ship balcony is used 150 hours a year. But if you want a balcony that you can use any time of the day, then Open Air BalconySM in each Panorama Suite is for you. You can enjoy the balcony for 8,760 hours a yea, any time, any weather condition. Request a free cruise brochure and find more information and River Cruise Deals on the Avalon Waterways website.

Road Stories

Having a car is one of the best thing that happened to our family. We no longer worry on how much the taxi will charge us. Or if we can ever find one. Now we don't have to wait for long queues on taxi bays. And we no longer have to worry for our safety. But having a car of our own, exposed us to more spending. Although we still don't need the service of car repair shop like Dallas auto repair, we tend to spend more because we travel more. Since we had our car, we have to a lot of places (but mostly North Luzon). And why not? Traveling is a sure way to make the family stronger.

My mom also loves traveling, so whenever we went for a ride, my mom would always come along. And she was the one who loves to stop on everything she sees on the road. She would stop on a corn vendor, on a furniture vendor and even on newspaper stand. Anything that catches her attention. I know her dream car is something like Chevrolet Silverado. She can put all the things she bought along the way on the back of the truck.

The only problem when we travel is that it's hard to suddenly stop when you are speeding on the highway. Like for example, we saw something that we want to check out, we just can't stop that fast. Although the car can do that kind of brake job, we have to take note of the cars behind us. Last time when we suddenly stopped, the car behind us almost hit us. So now, whenever we see something fancy on the road, we just drool as we passed by, and hope that on our way back, it would still be there.

Jakarta seats now 40% less

Go Seat-Seeing! Explore this summer with Indonesia and Cebu-Clark Seat Sales!

Jakarta seats now 40% less and P499 for Cebu-Clark flights

For the ‘Go Lite’ seat sale fare of only P2,499, you can travel to Jakarta, the dynamic capital city of the Republic of Indonesia. Visit its many traditional bargain shopping places like Tanah Abang and Pasar Rawa. Jakarta is also the gateway to the beach paradise, Bali.

The special P2,499 seat sale is available now until March 19, 2010, for travel from June 1 to August 31, 2010.

Cebu-Clark seats for only P499, which is 61% less than the lowest-year round fares for this route. Its thrice weekly Airbus flights are up for grabs starting now until March 19, 2010, for travel from May 1 to August 31, 2010.

Cebu Pacific is the only airline flying the Cebu-Clark route, connecting North Luzon and the Visayas for your utmost convenience!

Go seat-seeing now at www.cebupacificair.com!

Avocado Love

If there is one thing that I love during the rainy days, it's the abundant supply of avocado. I juts can't get enough of this treat.


The last time we went home, yeah, I had so much to post about that trip.. I bought 7 kilos of this goodness.. oh my, the price there was just crazy, imagine half a dollar for a kilo, while here, a kilo cost more than a dollar.. hence the hoarding.LOL

Animals In The Zoo

The kids really love animals. Zoo is all we got when we want them to experience the closest encounter possible with animals. Yes we have pets, but the kids are more interested on Zebras, Lions, Tigers and the likes. It's a good thing that we still have surviving zoos here. When I was young, we used to visit the Manila Zoo. It was very exciting to meet giraffe, elephants and monkeys. Now that I have kids, from time to time we bring them to a zoo. The first one we visited was the Malabon Zoo. It was a funny incident because the first time we tried going there. we did not make it. The zoo was close just after we arrived. My kids was disappointed and screaming, due to this, my hubby accidentally hit the sidewalk causing damage to our car tire. It's a good thing that we car insurance. So the next time we went there, we made it a point to be there just minutes before it opens. It was not that much of an experience though (for me) as the zoo keeps the animal in a very small cages. I think the kids enjoyed it though.

Driving On Expressways

The last time we went to our province, we travel through the new expressway. Honestly, it was tiring than our usual route. Yes, it was faster but the distance we traveled almost doubled. The lack of houses and traffic along the road made it more tiring. I never though that less traffic is not good too. I had to summon all my powers so that i would not fall asleep. It was a very sleepy travel. I guess if we will use a Volkswagen turbocharger, it will be shorter and less tiring. After all turbo charger can make your cars go faster.

The SCTEX and the Mount Arayat

Road Fetish

When my family travels, whether on our car or on Used Audi Cars, I really like taking photos of the road. I don't know what is it with empty roads or roads full of vehicles that made me want to take some shots. Last weekend when we traveled North, I had a lot of photos along the road. While I was busy taking pictures of the road, my kids are looking around for nicely shaped clouds. I never thought that cloud watching could be as entertaining as road watching. Here are some of our shots fro our recent trip.

from the lonely road of SCTEX

to a heavy traffic EDSA

back at Origas Avenue Extension.. huh? OK that was a Sunday..lol

Best Job In The World

What's the best job in the world?

BLOGGING

If you have the whole island to blog about and while doing so earning A$150,000 ($103,000; £70,000) for six months.

January 2008, it was dubbed that the best job in the world is to be the caretaker of Hamilton Island in Australia's Whitsunday Islands. The job description is to take care of the island, make a journal entry about the island and relax and be adventurous. The job was part of a tourism project to promote the Island. There more than hundreds of applicants and as I have heard the application site, where you can submit a 60 minute video resume, crashed due to traffic. And so from hundreds, the applicants were down to 50 and then to 16. The top 16 applicants spend four days in the island, relaxing and doing bbq (yay!).

Now the winner has been chosen and it's Ben Southfall(must be related to MJ incident?), the British charity worker, who will blogging about the island. Take a peek on his first day on Island Caretaker Blog

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Island image and caretaker badge comes from Hamilton Island site. To know more about Hamilton, check out their fares, resort listings head on to their site.

Future Enhancement

By now, you already know and maybe hope for me to stop talking about our upcoming baby girl. I am so sorry guys but I just can’t. Every single day, I think about her and gets more excited on my due date. As I have said to my sisters, this will be the longest pregnancy I will have. I just can’t wait to meet this little girl. Maybe you will not understand it that much but Sati is a name that I long to call for my baby. It’s not only the name but the wait it has given to us. Imagine that nickname, Sati and the full name Sofia Ananta has been on the household since my first born. Aside from the excitement of having a little mini me, I am now 100% sure that I want to go through ligation. The family is very complete now, we have three boys and we will be having our princess soon! Ligation comes with a promise that I can have breast reduction in the future. Some may think it's crazy but I promised myself that when I am done having kids, I will make my body my priority. Having three kids who are all breastfed makes my breast saggy aside from the fact that it was big to begin with. It's my treat to myself. It's makes perfect sense to me since I can't have kids anymore after ligation, so I won't breastfeed anymore.

I know locally, there are clinics that offer this kind of procedure, but if I can save as much, I will have it done somewhere. It is not that I don't trust our local surgeons but I just want the best result for this procedure. This is the only operating procedure or body enhancement procedure that I would experience so I want it to be the best. Of course, 2 or 3 years form now, it would still not be possible to travel and have breast reduction abroad. I am thinking maybe 5 or 8 years from now. Actually my target age is when I turned 35. I think it would be the most optimum date to travel and have this kind of procedure. By then, the kids are bigger and I will not feel guilty when I went ahead with my travel and enhancement plans.