Glory Tuesday

Enjoying a party is really a two-fold activity. The first level of enjoyment occurs during the event itself — relaxing, letting loose, laughing and joking with friends, co-workers, families, or even complete strangers. Dancing, food, entertainment, and drink all contribute to this enjoyment, as does the mix of people present.

The second way to enjoy a party is by reviewing the memories of the event after the fact. This enjoyment can literally outlast the party by years. As long as even one attendee continues to remember the event with fondness, reliving the gaiety, the party lives on with them.

It’s no wonder that people have striven to record their memories of parties for as long as they’ve had ways to record. Written accounts of celebrations were followed by photographs and snapshots which were in turn followed by film and video recordings.

Hosts can capitalize on this tendency by providing a ready-made way to capture memories of their party. All they need to do is look into how to rent photo booth s for private events. There are a number of companies who provide this service for reasonable rates. Hosts can customize the photo printouts with a date stamp or event name as well as choose how many photos on each strip. They also get to keep a copy of every photo taken during their event, so that they don’t have to run around trying to capture the event themselves, but can relax and enjoy along with their guests.

Thanks to my friend Meredith Alford for the guest post.

RV Travel

There’s nothing quite like hitting the highway in the RVand traveling America’s highways. Even though our RV has many great amenities, such as some of the best hd cable deals and a large family area, it’s always nice to stop at off the beaten path type of places.

Theme Parks

Our family loves theme parks. We buy annual passes to save money and try to visit at least once every couple of weeks during the summer. With so many to choose from in such close proximity, it never gets old. The kids love water parks and we always make a day of it.

Geocaching

Geocaching is great fun for kids and adults. It’s like playing a giant game of hide and seek. Plus, you never know what you are going to find at the end of the treasure hunt. It is a great way to get outside and enjoy fresh air and nature with your family. The only thing that it costs is gas and you will need a handheld GPS unit.

The Beach

There’s nothing quite like feeling sand between your toes and the feeling of salt water on your skin. You can surf, sun bathe, or build sand castles. We have at least one weekend trip to the beach every summer!

Fans of tennis are as passionate about the sport and their favorite players as any other sports or entertainment field. They will travel to other cities and even countries to see one of the Majors tournaments and to get a chance to watch their star player in person. In addition, this obsession has also inspired more people to take up the sport on a hobby or amateur basis, which has contributed to health and serves as a great form of exercise. Once a person gets a dose of the tennis bug it tends to remain with them throughout their life.

There are four main tournaments that represent the top players in the sport and are extremely popular with audiences from around the world. The tournaments, known as the Grand Slam Tournaments, also called the Majors, are the Australian Open, US Open, Wimbledon and the French Open. The Wimbledon tennis tournament is held in the London suburb of Wimbledon. These tournaments are where the best of the best players meet and compete to be recognized as the best. And with the various temperaments seen in the past, they have also served as a chance to see as many of the star players as possible and hope for some personality display. However, behavioral protocol asks for a more professional on court behavior and this is generally the case with the players.

The Australian Open is the first major tournament of the year and takes place in January at Melbourne Park. Roger Federer won the men’s singles title and Serena Williams won the women’s. The French Open is currently underway and began on May 23. It will extend through the beginning of June. We can look forward to the Wimbledon schedule this year as the tournament takes place in late June and early July. The US Open takes place during the last part of August and early September in Queens, New York.

It doesn’t take a big stretch of imagination or hope to mythologize the city of New York. The energy and the magnitude of activity here is strong enough to pull anyone into another realm. The day-to-day movement of the city, for those who compete on the streets for a living, is an exercise in masking and guarding, bringing up layers of psychic protection from the multiple distractions that are constantly around and shifting constantly. This movement, when at rest, starts to take in the overwhelming force of the day, and it can be a heady moment that feels a bit like a dream, a bit like a trance, and a bit like a memory. That’s pretty much just like a myth.

It’s a great moment, indeed, then, when the myth enters into the reality of New York, and better still when it’s tangible, in the form of a mosaic on a wall. At one moment, you could be enjoying the air above the city in a fantastic hotel , and at another moment be moving underneath the ground at 45 miles an hour, through the center of the earth. Thankfully, artists pay attention to these rifts in logic, and can find meaning and a common thread of ingredients that lead to a story. That’s what Jack Beal ‘s done with his elegant and gritty ‘The Return of Spring,’ mosaic.

The work was part of a commission from the Transit Authority for Times Square no less, and the work stands there as if it were a moment caught in time. The work has an uncanny effect, because it looks like the moment we are living in right now. We become Persephone coming from the depths of the underworld, touching the earth’s surface again, after a season in darkness. That’s the effect of art, but it’s also the effect of living at high speed, and moving in a peculiarly rich time, where things are and are not exactly as they seem.