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Passport to Africa is an annual week-long celebration of African culture and people. It is designed to highlight Africa's many cultures through creative and unique events. Passport to Africa is produced by IDOA Entertainment (I Dream Of Africa Entertainment). Click here to learn more about this fab Africana event!!!

As published in Art du Voyage's Travel Notes, Spring 2008

What better way to fully experience the land of Bordeaux than with a wine massage? Four star luxury hotel Les Sources des Caudalie, nestled in the vineyards of Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte is home to the world's first Vinothérapie Spa. The treatments, drawn from antioxidant rich grapes, grape seeds, and vines, have started a global trend, with wine-spas popping up everywhere.

Les Sources de Caudalie offers much more than just spa treatments, though. With two grastronomic restaurants, a 3-hole golf cours, cooking classes with chef Franck Salein, wine tasting courses and an elegants cigar club, there's something for everyone.

Enjoy our brand new O.P.I Tropical Citrus and Cucumber Pedicures just in time for summer! Indulge yourself with this tropical temptation spa service! Pamper your hands and feet with one of our soothing manicure and pedicure services and enjoy your new baby soft skin!

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6 years ago I was a divorced mother of five struggling to raise the last two teenagers, and all the friends they brought home….to live… you know, “it’s just for a couple of weeks Mom!”

I was tired all the time, worked 7 days a week, and hungry…teenagers go through a lot of food.

I thought the American Dream was my solution, start my own business, the brick and mortar type, with employees, overhead, maintenance, repair bills, travel time, inventory and $20k in start-up debt…4 years later, I was no further along in my goals and dreams…still working 7 days per week…and $80k in debt…including to the IRS!

I went on a journey that has led me through almost every book, cd and seminar on marketing and self development.

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I tried numerous MLM, direct sales and networking marketing programs, they all had systems, but no system that worked for me….or on me.

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I bought Elmo tickets for my almost two year old and I , and they were $70. I have to pay for two tickets, because gee, I would sure love to go watch Elmo. Parents should get discounts! But I don't feel guilty about that.

My husband royally pissed me off Monday. He went out and partied with his gross skeevy friend in Miami.
He is very nice but I don't think he has ever washed his hands. I will leave the rest to your imagination.

So my husband calls me, his phone is in the process of going dead. This is 11pm. Sometimes I can't sleep while he is out, for fear of drunk driving, car wrecks, being tossed in the drunk tank, etc. Here is my night when he is off getting wasted, staring at bitches, etc.

1:30 AM Take Xanax due to inability to sleep/worrying etc

3:00 AM Wake up, get panicky and then pissed, that I haven't heard from the offending party

5:15 AM Wake up, worry that he is dead on the side of the road somewhere, or maybe arrested for drunk driving.

8:00 AM Now I am very worried, feeling sick from lack of sleep, and PISSED OFF. Are there no phones in the entire city? Does your friend not have a phone ? Can't you borrow someone else's phone, call collect, or use one in a bar that you are probably still in? Are you 17 years old and unable to tolerate alcohol or stop when you are smashed? Did you forget that you have a family, responsibilities, and are legally considered an adult?

So I called and made myself an appointment- no- multiple appointments-for a massage, facial, and manicure/pedicure. I bought an entire package. I sent an email that said BE HOME BEFORE 3. I AM LEAVING FOR THE DAY. He is an email whore and of course got THAT message.

He came home, looking like a sheepish asshole, tried to apologize, but I had nothing to say except SEE YA later. And then went and spent some money getting pretty and un-pissed off.

I didn't ask for anything on Mothers' Day. I got Eggos and coffee in bed. Didn't have to change the poopy diaper, and had a sandwich made for me for lunch. Pizza for dinner. So I deserved this spa day, along with the retard husband factor. I should not feel bad. But I do.

Then I saw the bar bills (paid by debit card, at 1 am and 3 am at the same bar) and felt waaaaaay better. But still guilty. Then I saw the cost of the shooting range a week or two ago. Feeling better yet. But I also see that the new wheelchair wheels cost over $500 and wonder if that makes me feel worse.

A Revista Boa Forma traz uns vídeos bastante interessantes sobre tratamentos de beleza que podem ser feitos em casa. Inicialmente esse post ia se restringir ao tratamento da celulite, mas há tantas técnicas que podem ser feitas em casa que resolvi expandir as modalidades de automassagem para outras partes do corpo.

A celulite requer acompanhamento constante e a manutenção de alguns hábitos comuns: alimentação saudável, prática de exercícios físicos regulares, ingestão de bastante água e tratamentos estéticos. Sugerimos: drenagem linfática manual, massagem modeladora, ultrasom, estimulação russa e muitos outros que requerem a opinião de um especialista que avalie o seu corpo.

Se a grana está curta, opte por manter uma alimentação saudável, a prática de exercícios físicos, ingestão de bastante água e a massagem diária - você mesma. Para isso, Espartilho resolveu partilhar com vocês alguns vídeos que a revista Boa Forma oferece em seu site:

1. Drenagem Linfática - Spa em casa

2. Massagem Modeladora

3. Drenagem Linfática Facial

4. Essa é demais: Automassagem no glúteo

5. Automassagem nos seios

6. Automassagem nas coxas

7. Automassagem nos braços

8.  Automassagem no colo

9. Esfoliação Corporal - Faça em Casa

10. Livre-se das Estrias

11. Automassagem facial

12. Dica excelente de Automassagem

E, por fim, uma dica superespecial: Pense Magro e Seja magra

Há muitos vídeos para ser aproveitar e técnicas de beleza para o ano inteiro. Aproveite. Grande beijo!

3850 Las Vegas Boulevard Sth,
at W Tropicana Ave,NV 89109
+1 (702) 597 7777
+1 (702) 731 7110
Excalibur Las Vegas

Location favored South End of the Strip sharing the busiest Intersection in the US with bridges to Tropicana and NY NY and an indoor walkway to the Luxor its good. This is a great location not only for the rest of the Strip but also for the Airport, I15 and Las Vegas factory shops.

Theme King Arthur and the Knights of the round table - a medieval castle affair. This is the biggest castle I have ever seen, supposedly based on one of German fairytale fame. You enter over one of many drawbridges guarded by statues of knights, some on horseback; a fanfare announces your arrival at the actual casino entrance (several hundred feet from the Strip) on the medieval travelator. As you enter the casino you will see court jesters and supposedly a fire breathing dragon, and although we have searched for it on many occasions we have never actually had the luck to see it.

Rooms The rooms are fair sized and clean and the basic rooms are dressed with "medieval" tapestries, there are showers and no tubs and they can seem a little dark. There are nicer remodeled room with 42" plasma TV's these are called widescreen rooms and reports say that they are very nice.

Attractions The magic motion machine is a 48 seat simulator showing various "simulations". There is a large arcade, in the basement I like to think of it as the dungeon where all the Children are sent ;) There is the court jester's stage upstairs giving a variety of free acts throughout the day.

Pool The pool was always small and horrible and full of kids, its been updated I have not seen it since but the area is not that large so I am guessing that its still small and still full of kids. If you are looking for a good pool scene its not here.

Shows and Entertainment Excalibur does surprisingly well here they have the tournament of kings which is Medieval knights jousting for your pleasure whilst you eat your dinner with only your hands. Thunder from Downunder an Australian Chippendale type revue for the ladies, Louie Anderson a "larger than life" comedian as well as guest headliners.

Dining A cheap and very busy buffet there are reports of it being very poor, I have only eaten breakfast here and I thought it was good. It’s cheap, so you aren’t going to get lobster but on the other hand it always has massive queues so it can't be that bad. (B $10.99, L $12.99 D $15.99 and Champagne Sunday lunch $14.99). There is the obligatory 24-hr coffee shop, a very good ice cream parlor and few snack bars as well as more expensive restaurants that I have not eaten in. They also have the WWF Nitro grill for wrestling fans and Wild Bills Saloon and Steakhouse, which has had good reviews. There is also now a Dicks Last Resort which is not for me but perfect for hen or stag nights.

Gaming A huge 123,944 sq ft of medieval fun including nearly 2,500 slots, 60 plus card tables and 7 roulette wheels. Many of the slots here seem to be of a medieval theme involving knights, dragons, fair maidens and the like. There is a very large selection of nickel slots here; well suitable for low rollers like me. Blackjack at $5 per hand, which is low for the strip and, a wonderful electronic roulette machine at 25c a go. The casino is a little dark keeping in with the old school casino but not too cramped although at weekends, probably because of the very low room rates, it did seem to get very crowded.

Drinks service, The drink service here was not bad but not good; we got served a lot quicker once we switched from nickels to quarters. I did get served very quickly when I was playing craps but seemed to be ignored whilst on video roulette.

Overall Excalibur is good value, has a good location and most of all is great fun. If you chose to stay here, and you could do much worse for your dollar, pay the extra $10 a night for a room view. The cheapest rooms face inwards giving you only a view of other rooms which some may like but most will hate.

Good points Great value for money, lots of low limit tables and fun atmosphere

Bad points You do get far more families here than other resorts, there are too many timeshare hawks!

Top Tip Make sure that you pay the extra (or bribe the check in clerk) to get a "view" room standard rooms look at other Excalibur towers.

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Today was one of those days that seemed like there's just not enough hours in the day to get everything done that I wished to accomplish.  I've been juggling a lot of time-sensitive projects at work, and then had a lunch date with a couple of ladies of the press.  We met up at Tina's in Dundee and had a lovely lunch.  It is invaluable to develop relationships and get to know friends of the media - local, national, syndiated or not.

I signed up for a Scandinavian-style sauna-steam for this Saturday morning at Loyly, which I intend to write about for my next blog post on theantitourist.com.  I'm psyched to check this minimalist Euro styled spa.

After work, I spent my evening doing some yoga and abs strength training.  Due to my recent health issues, I've been committed to trying to get back into practicing yoga and meditation.  I would like to attend yoga classes, but I really need to get my finances in order. 

I'm spending money on different things for my writing - blog upgrades, writing contests (yup, most require $10-$15 fees to enter work), etc.  I would like to attend a few summer workshops, as well, either at Sitka Center for Arts & Ecology or Fishtrap.  I have limited funds for that, too.  With the gas prices soaring, it makes it even difficult to figure in when I can sign up for a tour and occassional daily usage of a writing room at Writer's Dojo in Portland - it's about a 30-40 minute drive from  my home.

I decided to set up advertising on my blog - it's another way to make money.  I am aggressively looking into other means of marketing my blog and getting it out to more readers.  I've even added the subscribe button - keep scrolling!  It's after the Archives...after the Blogroll, Recent Comments, and Stats - and yup, there it is!

I learned on ABC's Nightline last night that a stay-at-home mom, who's blog Dooce is a huge success, makes a good deal of money from advertisers.  I'm slowly dipping into this opportunity.  Sidenote - I love this blog.  I think it's funny, honest - and not limited to mommies.  As a single woman I appreciate and enjoy Dooce blogger Heather Armstrong's candid posts.

After working on these opportunities I tuned in to what's going on in the world.  For one, I am happy that Hillary took West Virginia, but I am disappointed in our nation's women, the leading gender in our population, for denying this incredible opportunity.  Statistics show that single women support HIllary - it's the married women who are backing Obama.  I find that to be really, really weird.

What is making me even more sick right now is the devastation in the Far East.  As if Myanmar's cyclone wasn't bad enough, followed by a ridiculous government that would rather see its people suffer than allow global aid - because, God forbid that would show their people how kind, generous and effective the rest of the world is.  The leadership there wants to keep its people ignorant of that kind of aid. 

And then there's China.  I don't even know what to say about that earthquake.  The 7.9 scale is unimaginable!  I have decided to emulate the Tibetan Buddhists and pray for peace and the end of suffering.  It is my hope that lives will continue to be saved, that medical care, food and water will be available, that shelter will be available and that rebuilding will soon take place.  I will meditate on this and pray.  I hope the global response for aid will reach the Chinese people as soon as possible.

In February, with the coming of the Chinese New Year, the year of the rat, I remember reading an article about the possibility for natural disasters.  I remember thinking about Katrina, the Tsunami in the East (Dec. 04), and I just couldn't imagine any more distruction.  But, the prediction for disaster was beyond ominous:

The start of the new lunar year, the most important national holiday for China’s 1.3 billion people, followed three weeks of ice and snow storms that crippled transport and power supplies in many cities.

But even though power has been restored to 162 or the 170 worst-hit counties, millions are still without electricity or heating and the China Meteorological Administration warned that the warmer temperatures and melting snow could bring natural disasters, including landslides, in their wake.

And fortune-tellers say that caution will be the watchword for the Year of the Rat, for which they predict financial and political rumblings, tsunamis and epidemics. The reason, they say, is that water and earth – two of the five elements Chinese mystics believe are at the root of all things – are in conflict in 2008.

Text from: 'China Welcomes Year of the Rat' by Philippe Naughton, TimesOnline, Feb. 7, 2008.

It wasn't quite as easy as I'd written about and imagined; in fact, although the salon was nearly empty I still had to make an "appointment" to get a manicure later on in the night. I say appointment with quotes, because really all it was was the front desk guy telling me to come back in a half-hour and me giving him my first name.

But away I went, and one smoothie later I was back at the salon, choosing the deep blue nail polish that would eventually end up on my tips. Aside from what shape I wanted my nails, one of the first questions the manicurist asked was what time my flight left, a first for me in a nail salon. When I said it'd leave in an hour I thought she'd start hustling, but that's not how it works at Oasis. For good (or in my case, almost bad) the staff take their time and leave you to keep an eye on the clock (which is featured prominently on a main wall in the salon).

As far as basic manicures go, I've had better and I've had worse. And although $26 for a basic mani is super-steep in my book, it seems fair when you compare it to the inflated prices of everything else in the airport. The 45 minutes my appointment took really were the quickest 45 minutes I've ever spent in an airport terminal, and certainly not the most expensive. (One trip to the bookstore for some candy and magazines will usually cost me more than that.)

On the downside, I literally almost missed my flight. While this isn't necessarily Oasis' fault (they do have a giant clock, after all), it seems like a manicurist working in an airport salon would keep better track of time. I've read similar reviews online, and keeping track of time would become an even more major issue if I'd been getting a massage or anything else that required me to close my eyes.

So will I be getting manis at the airport on every trip now? Probably not. But will I think about forking over $26 to help time fly on a never ending layover in the future? You can bet your ragged nails I will.

More:
Boarding Area Boredom Busters [GirlsGottaTravel]
10 Things to Do When Stuck at the Airport [HolidayGolightly]
Passing Time in Airports [Intelligent Travel]

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