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Italian Riviera Travel Diary
With it’s bright colored buildings and stunning landscape the shores of the Italian Riviera are on of a kind in Italy. The Italian Riviera kind of like the Amalfi Coast is a long stretch of shoreline inhabited by over 60 cities and fishing towns. It historically extended all the way to what is now the french city of Marseille In its center lies the city of Genoa. There’s lots to do. You can go snorkeling, kayaking, scuba diving, boating, fishing, swimming. Just about anything and with the beautiful weather and its unique charm, it gets quite a bit of visitors. This is also where Christopher Columbus learned to sail. Portofino…
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Stonehenge Autumn Equinox
Have you heard of the Stonehenge Autumn Equinox? You haven’t?! Well let me tell you, it’s incredible, magical, and awesome. Every year as the sun rises above the horizon, its rays align perfecting between the stones at Stonehenge. This occurs during the Equinox’s and Solstices at Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. During that time anyone can go for free and the best part, you get to go right up to the stones and touch them. If that wasn’t enough, many dress like druids and medieval men and women. There were even real druids. How we got to be a part of this is a pretty funny story. We were in…
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2020 Week 03 Recap
It’s time for another Week Recap. It’s been another magical week. Spent time with friends and family. Got to go to my favorite restaurant, Olive Garden. Been reading a new book called Force Collector and learned some great lessons in taking action. Oh and by the way, did I mention my birthday’s coming up. Yep, the big 15! My grand parents came over this weekend to celebrate and as a present I got the new LEGO BookShop from the modular series. It’s my first modular set ever. The set is so awesome! Coming up next week i’ll be doing a quick review of the set. These past 7 days have…
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Heroes of Tomorrow Mini Movie
They’re, brave. They’re fierce. They’re corky, they’re…kids? Yep it’s the Heroes of Tomorrow! The idea for this came after watching the trailer for Shazam about a kid who discovers he has super powers. It was during our last month in Seattle before we set off on our 2019 nomadic trip in Europe. I had wanted to make a mini movie and it was when I was discussing ideas with my parents that the idea came. “What if we made something like Shazam? Kids who discover they had super powers?” I loved it. So that’s what we did. We got a few friends together, got costumes, props, everything we needed. The…
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LEGO Hamilton Musical
Inspired by the broadway musical Hamilton, I’ve built this LEGO recreation of Lin Manuel’s master piece. It was great fun recreating the grand broadway stage and its detail. Before I’ve created LEGO models of movies, historical sights but this is my first musical. I wanted to have everything from the staircase to the turning floor in the center where the final duel takes place. The characters were fun to make as well as I wanted the mini figures to resemble the original cast of the musical. A quick backstory to the making of the musical. Lin Manuel Miranda while acting in the musical In The Heights came across a big…
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Pompeii Travel Diary
You may have heard the tragic story of Pompeii’s fall. This once splendid city had faced the eruption of mount Vesuvius in 79 AD wiping out all civilization in not only Pompeii but Oplontis, Stabiae and many other settlements in the area. But before all that Pompeii has quite a history. The people that first settled there were actually greeks until it fell to Roman influence. Elegant houses and villas lined the cobblestone streets alongside Taverns, shops, bathhouses. There was even 20,000 seat arena for the citizens. The city grew and grew. There was about 12,000 people living in Pompeii when mount Vesuvius erupted. Ruins remind us that as time…
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Young Achiever Flynn McGarry
He’s been called the Justin Bieber of food. Flynn McGarry is known as the youngest chef in the world and has been hosting dinner tastings in Los Angeles and New York City since the age of 11. Born on November 25, 1998 in Los Angeles California, Flynn got into the art of cooking after getting tired of his parents limited meal choices and takeout food they’d have. So he decided he would teach himself how to cook. Flynn began learning the culinary arts from youtube videos, food blogs and Thomas Kellers The French Laundry cookbook. In seventh grade Flynn started homeschooling so he’d have more time to practice his cooking…
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Amalfi Coast Italy Travel Diary
Far from the busy big cities of Rome and Florence, Italy has another side to its beauty and history. The Amalfi Coast. The Amalfi Coast is a stretch of shore line with loads of small towns perched on its shores and rocky outcrops. One of its more famous cities is Positano. Positano had seen its golden ages during the time of the ancient Romans and Greeks but near the mid 19th century the city had fell on hard times as half the population emigrated to America. It had become just any old sea town. Until the American author John Steinbeck published his essay about the city in Harpers Bazaar. “Positano…
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Mindvalley Teen Video
I enjoy creating films, promos, mini movies, and all sorts of other films. And at Mindvalley University I had a plan to make one. (If you’ve read my blog, you’ll know I mention Mindvalley a lot) It had been two weeks in. I had filmed a few of the talks and parties so that I could put it together into my video. My original plan was to make a video about the Mindvalley experience as a whole until my Mom suggested to do a video just about the Teens. So that’s what I did. I interviewed the teens and teachers filming them in action. And believe me when I say…
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2020 Week 02 Recap
You know what time it is? Time for a Week Recap! Another week has past full of magic, memories, laughter and ideas. We even got to watch Frozen 2… in our house. You’re probably like WHAT! Yeah my parent’s have a friend who’s a producer and receives film screeners for like every movie including Frozen 2!!! My mom and I love that movie. Go check it out, it’s so cool. And if you want to bump it up to the next level, eat carrot cake with hot chocolate while you’re watching it. Perfect movie experience. Here are all the blog posts from last week. 2020 Week Recap 01 200 days…
