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A lifestyle blog with a focus on my food adventures

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I’m not a biker or a hiker, or an outdoorsy person for that matter, so the best way I know how to see the landscape is to go on a horseback ride. I have plenty of experience riding English style, however, most places that tourists go offer Western. The hotel offers 1 hour or 2 […]

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We were invited to a wedding of an old friend and headed out to Keystone, CO over the July 4th weekend. If you’ll remember, we were expecting a hurricane. Our jetBlue flight was delayed leaving, and with the altered flight plan to avoid the storm, it was a long night. Once we arrived at the […]

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The tree spa at Hidden Pond offers three treetop spa rooms connected by a raised catwalk. How cute are the rooms? The only downside is that they do not have showers at the spa. I had a pure therapy 60 minute massage ($130) with Emily, who was fantastic. She gave me a customized massage based […]

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I had bought a Living Social deal months and months ago and booked this weekend getaway to Hidden Pond. We knew friends of friends who got married here and everyone had such good things to say about the resort. We were there before it was peak season, and it seemed like most of the other […]

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It was raining like crazy when we were supposed to take off to go to San Diego. The traffic was a nightmare – you would think that New Englanders would be used to this weather, but never fail – when it rains, people drive like idiots. The crew was stuck in traffic, coming from Quincy. […]

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A side-note, I forgot to throw in that we went to Notre Dame on Monday. (10am-5:30pm from 10.1 to 03.31 ; 10am-6:30pm from 04.1 to 09.30 ; late opening until 11pm on Saturdays and Sundays of June, July, August and September. Last entry 45 min prior to closing. Closed on 01.1, on 05.1 and on […]

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We were on our way out of town and stopped at Laughing Moon Chocolates. We had been there before and loved it, so we figured we would grab some goodies for the road!! We picked out some good stuff while be entertained by the owner’s young son – he was showing us his karate moves! […]

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Who’s excited to drive around all weekend in this nifty whip?!? The Nissan Cube! Yikes!! This was my ‘upgrade’ from a compact car….not so sure if our definition of upgrade is the same…Driving this hot number around was like driving a Fred Flinstone car! We start the weekend off at Phillips seafood for dinner located […]

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