Travelling Tuesday – Long Beach, CA

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This first blog post for Travelling Tuesday is just so predictable of me, I apologise.

California.

Such a typical place for a teenage girl to want to visit, right?
I agree. But I have talked about wanting to go to America for years and years and years and this is one of the places that I would most like to visit.

First of all, the name is beautiful. Imagine being able to say “I live in Long Beach”. It just sounds pretty. Then, we also have the obvious fact that it looks absolutely stunning. 

I mean.. come on.

I read from a travel website that “Located in the heart of Southern California, Long Beach blends the urban sophistication of a big city with the relaxed atmosphere of a beach resort. Discover diverse hotels, world-class attractions, cutting-edge museums, award-winning restaurants and a thriving, multi-faceted arts and culture scene. Bordered by the Pacific Ocean, with 5.5 miles of sandy beach front, plus miles of inland bays and waterways, Long Beach basks in the warm glow from our year-round California sun.”

Perfect.

Things To Do in Long Beach

– Queen Mary Ocean Liner
– The Aquarium of The Pacific
– The Pike (An amusement park, I think!)
– Visit Naples (Naples is a neighborhood of Long Beach, California, United States, built on three islands located in Alamitos Bay. The islands are divided by canals which open into the bay. Most of the streets on the island have Italianate names)
– The Walter Pyramid
– Soviet Submarine B-427
– Shopping (obviously)

Where to Stay in Long Beach

Hyatt The Pike:

Renaissance Long Beach Hotel:

Hotel Maya:

Writing this blog post did not help my desperation to visit this country. At All.

Much love

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Being Creative in Other Ways…

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Today at church we looked at creativity in more depth. When I think of creativity, I think of  art and music or poetry, stuff like that. Today though, we talked about creativity being how God introduced himself.

We introduce ourselves in different ways. For example, if you have children and your meeting the parents of your children’s friends you would introduce yourself as your children’s mother. Where as, if you were speaking at a conference you wouldn’t introduce yourself in that way. So, the way you introduce yourself is certainly important. The first line in the bible says; ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.’
I have never looked at Genesis 1:1 in that way before, its really important though! Creativity was the very first. We must understand creativity because it is going to be one of the most important weapons in the end times.

Some how, what He was trying to get across to us is lost but we all have the creativity of God because we were made in the image of Him. He gave us his DNA. The world is full of creativity… through music, television, advertisement, dance. But truthfully, this worldly creativity screams out the devil.

The definition of creativity is gifted, inventive, visionary. Sadly, we now think that creativity is a world thing. The thing is, Jesus modeled a creative lifestyle. When we think of wisdom, we think of  people like Doctors or Lawyers we wouldn’t associate it with art but wisdom is Gods master piece. Jesus healed people and God talks to us its through creativity, right? through visions, dreams, prophecy. We need to learn how to hear him.

Fire is coming to the nation. We have to pray for our land and understand what our place is in the nation. Let’s try and restore the creative DNA.

Designer Dienstag – My love for vintage.

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For this first post the very first idea that came into mind was Vintage. I’ve always wanted and imagined my bedroom one day and it always looks like a Modern kind of vintage. Do you know what I mean? White furniture but still a bit older looking, a white curving dressing table with a mirror, roses in my bedroom, hearts on the walls and vintage photo frames. Let me give you some ideas 🙂

Is it just wishful thinking? It’s so pretty though!

Vlogblog day 18 – Picking flowers, festivals and farms.

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Today was absolutely boiling! I think 37 degrees… But that couldn’t stop me from filling my day.
First of all I went with my dad to Wielheim. There was a festival there but we just walked through it because it was too hot to sit down anywhere. I needed some ribbons to decorate Oma Ingrid and Oma Ritas flower bunches. After we bought them we headed to a field where they especially grow pretty flowers for people to pick. I love picking flowers.

Oh I forgot to say.. I found my dream scooter 😀 yes please! Lol!

After a little creativity I organised the flowers and separated them into two bunches with ribbons.

After I delivered these thank you flowers,Dad, Oma Ingrid and I went for ice cream. How can you not in such heat? But I got a waffel again, so tasty!

There was another festival in Peiting but we also just walked through that because Oma then needed to drop something of at somebody’s house at a farm and there were animals. Yes there were cats. Yes I sat there for ages stroking and playing with them. Yes I wanted to take them home afterwards.. They are just beautifully adorable:) oh and there were pigs and cows. Young pigs and cows. I love farms 😀

I mean.. Look at them!!! On our way home we also saw the sunset

This morning I already had to start my packing because tomorrow night it is time to fly to Edinburgh, stay the night there and come home on Monday.

Leaving Meal.

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Yesterday was one of my best friends leaving meal and also Matt’s birthday meal. It was such a good evening of loads of laughs. They said we could use our own music so we took the chance and put LOADS of cheesy music on 😀

Some Olive tasting… YUCK! She moved at her best faces but this is the best I got 😀 Don’t think she liked it…

After church Rachael came to my house and we spent our afternoon with Music and making Peta a Scrapbooked board with our memories. 

We ate delicious food!

And of course, expressed our love for colored tights 😀