Exquisite, Resplendent, Pulchritudinous?

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How would you describe this photograph?

Only more 61 more days until I get to visit this heavenly realm! 

Can anyone guess where this is? 

10 Places Currently on My Bucket List

 1. Hike up to Äscher cliff restaurant in Switzerland and eat dinner there just as the sun is setting.

http://www.myswitzerland.com/en-us/hiking-and-aescher-cliff-restaurant.html

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 2. Stay at the Hotel Ristorante Grotta Palazzese in Italy and dine in their summer cave. 

http://www.grottapalazzese.it/en/

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Photo found at: Laguaridadebam.blogspot.com
 3. Take a train ride from Dresden Germany to the Town of Bastei and walk along Bastei Bridge. 

http://tourismattraction.com/the-bastei-bridge-germany/

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Photo found at: breathtakinglandscapes.wordpress.com
 4. Travel and tour the Alcazar of Segovia, a castle in Spain. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A1zar_of_Segovia

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Photo found at: trommerphotography.com
 5. Hike to the top of Angels Landing in Zion National Park, Utah.

http://www.utah.com/nationalparks/zion/angels_landing.htm

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Photo found at: lovethesepics.com
 6. Take a picture in front of Great White Throne Mountain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Throne_%28mountain%29

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Photo found at: pjmountains.blogspot.com
7. Hike through Torres del Paine National Park, in Patagonia, Chile. 

http://beautifulplacestovisit.com/mountains/torres-del-paine-national-park-patagonia-chile/

Photo found at: travel.nationalgeographic.com
Photo found at: travel.nationalgeographic.com
 8. Camp in the Redwood Forest in California.

http://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm

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photo found at: pinterest.com
 9. Visit the place of my birth, Wurzburg, Germany. 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg

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Photo found at: in-luxembourg.blogspot.com
 10. Visit the avenue of the baobab trees in Madagascar. 

http://www.placestoseeinyourlifetime.com/avenue-of-the-baobabs-the-most-beautiful-road-in-madagascar-6686/

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Photo found at: nationalgeographic.com

I will actually get the chance to visit a few of these places this summer. 

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?

Doug Hammer – Flying High

This song really spoke to my heart today.  Sometimes we just need a song to quiet our soul and lift us up.  Enjoy!  🙂

Calling All Book Nerds

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Anyone interested in doing Larps – Live Action Role Play?  Here’s a link to one that is going on in Poland.  This would be the ultimate experience for a true Harry Potter fan, even though the event is not affiliated with J.K. Rowling, Scholastic Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, or Warner Bros.  This looks like it could be more fun than going to Universal Studios.  For more information and to sign up for updates, go here.

Thoughts on the Trials of Life

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Do you ever find yourself lashing out irrationally at people, just because you’re having a bad day? Well, this has been me over the last few weeks. My whole world seemed to cave in on me suddenly, when I learned something about the past that I didn’t know before. This little bit of information has literally changed everything for me and I am not sure what to do about it. I feel like I am losing control of myself and plummeting like a fighter jet that has been shot down. Life is never easy is it? Just when we think we have it all together, our flight path changes directions and we are thrown off course. Why do you think this happens? Do you think it’s God’s way of waking us up? Is He doing this to cause us to turn in a new direction? Is He trying to point out a weakness in ourselves that we just never saw before? Does God even have anything to do with this; or is it by chance that things like this happen? I tend to believe for the most part, that most things happen for a reason. I believe that God is always looking out for our well-being, even in the darkest moments of our lives. He thinks eternally, we think years. I am generally a very open-minded, positive person. But am I really? If I was, than why is this affecting me so much? Sometimes I wish the world would just stop turning for a moment so that I could jump off. The drama in life is just overwhelming and absolutely painful at times. Maybe time is the only real cure. God’s time…