I've been totally spoiled for fireworks since btw. Plus it was a road trip from CO to FL and full of fun, like driving through beautiful Mississipi with all the autumn colors (my favorite colors) and driving through endless, endless Texas (and stalling out on the trip back to spend a freezing night under emergency blankets, ugh), and then Florida itself. I LOVED Epcot. We went in 2000 and they had all these special exhibits and celebration stuff and the fireworks... I have literally been bored by all other fireworks since. They don't compare.
2. South Dakota
We did Mount Rushmore, which was all fogged up :sniffs:, and a bunch of other sites I can't name you today, but it was fun, and the whole family was there and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.
3. Yellowstone
Old Faithful geysers, a bison walking down the middle of the hotel parking lot, mud pots, a prettier geyser than Old Faithful, and me just about wearing out my camera's panorama setting on the views and the canyon and the everything.
4. Norwood
We went up earlier this year to a filmmakers camp and that area up there is GORGEOUS. It reminded me of all the things I love about Colorado that I don't get enough of in the foothills instead of the mountains.
5. Poudre Canyon
I spent my formative years in Estes Park right off the national forest. We've moved around so much before and after, but I love our mountains. I don't necessarily want to go out into them often, but I LOVED Poudre Canyon.
My family would go up there to picnic and hang out on the river and step on the stones and my sister would gather them sometimes to craft into gorgeous paper weights, and they were my happiest memories out of doors. I think I should have made this number one. I love my memories of this river. I truly do.
I had to look up 3 of those 5 places but omgggg Poudre Canyon looks like Norway. :D
And I would LOVE to go to Yellowstone. There, Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon are the places I'd go to the States for. And then NY, Frisco, Grand Sequoia and the Everglades. OH and New Orleans. But... well, the US is quite far down my list of places to go, to be honest...
I understand that completely. The older I get, the more I appreciate the areas I grew up in. :sighs: I kind of miss going. Me and my sister were planning a road trip and that would be awesome to go back, I think.
Epcot fireworks are NOT to be missed. I've been a bunch of times, but the first time was the best, when I saw them during the Wine & Food Festival that Disney hosts there during half of September and all of October. (We got park hopper passes and spent five days doing all four parks and food food food wine wine wine ride ride ride was a TERRIFIC but exhausting way to celebrate coming through my only major surgery. We just, you know... moved slowly!)
My awesome husband and best friend were both very considerate of the fact that my lower abdomen was held together with (literal) superglue for stitches. :D
I'll pick friendships after deeper thought. There are too many. Now to facts...
1. Our DNA responds to our will when we're in a place of love and joy. I was researching for something else about DNA for a friend and bumped into a study where they had subjects hold a petri dish with DNA in their hands and try to affect it. It worked if they were thinking happy, loving thoughts, didn't really respond to neutral, and started to break up with angry thoughts. LOVE THIS FACT.
2. I'm not sure whether I enjoy telling it, but it is definitely in the top ten I do. Tact means knowing how not to offend. I am objectively tactless. My sister always claimed it, then I looked it up in the dictionary, and told her, "You're right!"
3. A drabble is EXACTLY 100 words.
4. Most meat is actually a 2nd or 3rd grade protein. Carnivores often do not have enough protein or complete enough protein in their diets. Vegetarians are usually so worried about it, they often have too much.
5. Vitamin B5 is a powerful support for dealing with stress.
And this is why I love asking about peoples favourite facts! I didn't know most of these (I knew the drabble thing). All my facts are place/geography related, so these kinds of facts are really interesting. Especially the DNA thing. Who would have guessed?
I basically grew up in a small, private library run by my family. when I finished all the fiction books as a kid, I decided there was no help for it and started in on the health section. I know loads of useless and useful trivia about natural health and sleep cycles and fasting, etc.
I'm having the hardest time nixing all the real ones that showed up in books. Ahem. In no particular order...
1. Meg and Charles Wallace
I love their sibling friendship so, so, so much and it reminds me often of my sister and I. We are close, even when we get under each other's skin.
2. Anne Shirley and Diana Barry
True friends that loved each other dearly and were always there for each other and were just beautiful friends.
3. Anne Shirley and Matthew Cuthbert
I'm thinking the movie here and they were so precious. So precious. I weep over their friendship.
4. The whole group in Secrets of Jin-Shei
Wow, what a book on female friendship and everyone who thinks the cultural/fantasy angle was insufficient can just go stuff it, because this book was gorgeous.
5. Anne Shirley and Philippa Gordon
I love their friendship and how generally unjealous they are and that they are true friends even if they did manage to quarrel or throw harsh truths at each other once in a while.
All the rest of my top, top favorite friendships aren't fictional or are biblical or are in my fiction, so I think I got the right set done.
1. Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time series 2. Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery 3. Anne of Green Gables (1985) movie 4. Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander 5. Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
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Date: 2015-10-21 08:49 pm (UTC)I JUST LIKE TOP FIVE LISTS OKAY? :P
Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-21 09:04 pm (UTC)I've been totally spoiled for fireworks since btw. Plus it was a road trip from CO to FL and full of fun, like driving through beautiful Mississipi with all the autumn colors (my favorite colors) and driving through endless, endless Texas (and stalling out on the trip back to spend a freezing night under emergency blankets, ugh), and then Florida itself. I LOVED Epcot. We went in 2000 and they had all these special exhibits and celebration stuff and the fireworks... I have literally been bored by all other fireworks since. They don't compare.
2. South Dakota
We did Mount Rushmore, which was all fogged up :sniffs:, and a bunch of other sites I can't name you today, but it was fun, and the whole family was there and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.
3. Yellowstone
Old Faithful geysers, a bison walking down the middle of the hotel parking lot, mud pots, a prettier geyser than Old Faithful, and me just about wearing out my camera's panorama setting on the views and the canyon and the everything.
4. Norwood
We went up earlier this year to a filmmakers camp and that area up there is GORGEOUS. It reminded me of all the things I love about Colorado that I don't get enough of in the foothills instead of the mountains.
5. Poudre Canyon
I spent my formative years in Estes Park right off the national forest. We've moved around so much before and after, but I love our mountains. I don't necessarily want to go out into them often, but I LOVED Poudre Canyon.
My family would go up there to picnic and hang out on the river and step on the stones and my sister would gather them sometimes to craft into gorgeous paper weights, and they were my happiest memories out of doors. I think I should have made this number one. I love my memories of this river. I truly do.
Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-21 09:11 pm (UTC)And I would LOVE to go to Yellowstone. There, Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon are the places I'd go to the States for. And then NY, Frisco, Grand Sequoia and the Everglades. OH and New Orleans. But... well, the US is quite far down my list of places to go, to be honest...
Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-22 05:19 pm (UTC)Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-21 10:18 pm (UTC)Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-22 05:20 pm (UTC)Re: Top five places you have been
Date: 2015-10-23 02:01 am (UTC)Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-21 09:09 pm (UTC)1. Our DNA responds to our will when we're in a place of love and joy. I was researching for something else about DNA for a friend and bumped into a study where they had subjects hold a petri dish with DNA in their hands and try to affect it. It worked if they were thinking happy, loving thoughts, didn't really respond to neutral, and started to break up with angry thoughts. LOVE THIS FACT.
2. I'm not sure whether I enjoy telling it, but it is definitely in the top ten I do. Tact means knowing how not to offend. I am objectively tactless. My sister always claimed it, then I looked it up in the dictionary, and told her, "You're right!"
3. A drabble is EXACTLY 100 words.
4. Most meat is actually a 2nd or 3rd grade protein. Carnivores often do not have enough protein or complete enough protein in their diets. Vegetarians are usually so worried about it, they often have too much.
5. Vitamin B5 is a powerful support for dealing with stress.
Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-21 09:14 pm (UTC)Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-22 05:21 pm (UTC)The drabble thing is, of course, very important.
Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-24 10:29 am (UTC)Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-22 12:36 am (UTC)#3 makes you my hero. *g*
Re: Top five random facts you enjoy telling people.
Date: 2015-10-22 05:22 pm (UTC)Drabbles are the best.
Top five fictional friendships.
Date: 2015-10-22 05:28 pm (UTC)1. Meg and Charles Wallace
I love their sibling friendship so, so, so much and it reminds me often of my sister and I. We are close, even when we get under each other's skin.
2. Anne Shirley and Diana Barry
True friends that loved each other dearly and were always there for each other and were just beautiful friends.
3. Anne Shirley and Matthew Cuthbert
I'm thinking the movie here and they were so precious. So precious. I weep over their friendship.
4. The whole group in Secrets of Jin-Shei
Wow, what a book on female friendship and everyone who thinks the cultural/fantasy angle was insufficient can just go stuff it, because this book was gorgeous.
5. Anne Shirley and Philippa Gordon
I love their friendship and how generally unjealous they are and that they are true friends even if they did manage to quarrel or throw harsh truths at each other once in a while.
All the rest of my top, top favorite friendships aren't fictional or are biblical or are in my fiction, so I think I got the right set done.
Re: Top five fictional friendships.
Date: 2015-10-24 10:33 am (UTC)Re: Top five fictional friendships.
Date: 2015-10-25 04:57 pm (UTC)2. Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery
3. Anne of Green Gables (1985) movie
4. Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander
5. Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery