Hump Day Happy: The Olympics

After being on hiatus for a week due to moving, I'm glad to say, my little weekly tradition is back. Its time for another mid-week slice of happiness.

It comes once every four years. Its the Summer Olympics!!! So here are you trivia points for the day!

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The first Summer Olympics were held in 776 BC and ending in 393 AD. In 1896, the games were re-established and the first 'modern' Summer Olympics were held in Athens.

In 1904, the United States appeared in the football, I mean soccer, competition for the first time. Consequently, we took home the silver and the bronze that year, only losing to Canada in the finals. 

In 1904, the Summer Olympics were held in the my favorite city, St. Louis!

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In the same 1904 Summer Olympics, 651 athletes competed, only 6 were women. Those 6 were from the United States and were part of the archery team.

Until 1994, the Olympics were held every four years, but afterwards the Summer and Winter Olympics alternate every two years.

In ancient times, the gold medals handed out were made of pure gold. The last pure gold medal was awarded in 1912.

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I hope you enjoyed some the trivia from the Summer Olympics, but now its time for the Hump Day Happy article.

First of Many Anticipated Showdowns 

Now I don't know who is and who is not a fan of Michael Phelps, but I think we can all agree that his performance during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was awe inspiring. Its not too often that you get to see an athlete like him compete. The last time a swimmer of his caliber was around was during the 1972 Olympics and Mark Spitz was the athlete. Mark Spitz took home 7 gold medals. I think this year is going to be very exciting! Especially since a one Ryan Lochte keeps edging out Michael Phelps. For better or for worse, I'm thinking we are in for a real treat this time around!

Other people to watch: 

Dana Vollmer in the 100m Butterfly

Ashton Eaton in the decathalon

Nick Symmonds in the 800m 

Jordyn Wieber in Gymnastics

These are only my early picks, but I'm looking forward to some good things from these athletes! Start getting excited! The Olympics are only 30 days away!!

Until Next Time!

Lots of Love!!

~A

Ps-I promise to post about our last few weekends. I just have to get the pictures on my computer first!!!

Hump Day Happy: Terracotta Soldiers

Yay! It's that day of the week!  Happy Hump Day everyone! I just get so excited on Wednesday. I feel like I can finally breathe! Monday and Tuesday take so darn long to get through and then you hit Wednesday and it's time to let loose a little bit. Here are my thoughts on how the week goes.

Monday: Not so bad b/c you can talk about your weekend with your co-workers

Tuesday: SUCKS!Absolutely nothing exciting about this day. No more weekend chats and its still too far from the next weekend.

Wednesday: Hump Day! You've made it this far, and you don't have far to go!

Thursday: Gotta love Thirsty Thursday. Presently means the end of the work week for me, but there are also a lot of good happy hour goodies to hit up!

Friday: This one is a given! TGIF!

Saturday: More relaxation

Sunday: Recover from it all!

I think that's a pretty good breakdown of how a week goes, at least how my week goes. If you had to work on other days, I'm sure they are not as exciting! 

Okay so its time for my favorite post! This week's Hump Day Happy is, I think, more interesting than happy. I suppose if you are/were China's first emperor, then I suppose you would be happy about archaeologists finding 110 new terracotta soldiers for your army of already nearly 8,000 terracotta soldiers! 

110 New Soldiers

I find this very interesting! I love little eccentricities of people throughout history. Evidently, the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang began building the Terracotta army/Mausoleum when he ascended the throne around 246 BC. It would then take another 11 years to complete. Very interesting stuff.

Want to learn more?!

Try these:

Travel China

Terracotta Soldiers: Smithsonian

Terracotta Warriors 

Hope everyone has a good Hump Day!

Until Next Time!

Lots of Love!!

~A

Hump Day Happy: Remembering D-Day, 68 Years Later

Happy Hump Day everyone! Now I don't know how many people are going to remember, but today is the anniversary of D-Day. It was the our boys landed on the beaches of Omaha and Utah. Before I get to my usual post, I wanted to drop a few quick facts.

On June 6th, 1944, 156,000 Allied troops from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Free France, and Norway left for Normandy.

D'Day was originally supposed to be on June 5th, but the weather would not cooperate.

Numbers represent total killed, wounded, missing, or captured:

United States: 6,603 (1,465 killed)

Great Britain: 2,700

Canada: 1,074 (359 killed)

Germany: Estimated between 4,000-9,000

By June 11^th, with the beachheads firmly secured, more than 326,000 troops crossed with more than 100,000 tons of military equipment. Paris was liberated on August 25^th. Germany surrendered on May 8^th, 1945.

Want to learn more about D'Day?

D'Day: June, 6, 1944

I'm not sure if this is exactly happy, but I think its a little more touching. 

D'Day: 68 Years Later

I absolutely love her quote at the end.

“I come from a country where there wasn’t anything like [peace and freedom]. And I know the difference. And veterans are doing it…What I don’t want is people to forget—our men and women veterans; they’ve given a lot. Why forget?”

Remembering that our freedoms cost millions of courageous souls their lives.

Thanking them from the bottom of my heart.

Never Forget.

Until Next Time!

Lots of Love!!

~A

Suit Up

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Yes, that is correct. Friday night, we all suited up for a night on the town. We decided to go to Bailey's Chocolate bar and enjoy some ab-fab martinis! I tried a mint chocolate martini, a milk chocolate martini, and strawberry one that had sorbet in it. They were all pretty darn awesome! Garrett had a dirty martini, an espresso type martini, and then he had enough so he went for a Manhattan. Let's just say, we were definitely classing it up! Ryan, Linzi, Kelly, and Daphne all came as well. We had a delightful time. The only bad news is that my camera is once again one hiatus, but not because I lost it this time. No, now I just can not find the charger anywhere and the camera is dead! The cameras and I just do not seem to be able to get along at all. Moral of the story is that I have no documented evidence of the Suit Up night. Bummer, yes, but that does not mean that we will never being doing this again! Looking forward to another Suit Up post in the future!

The rest of the weekend was relatively relaxed. Garrett and I had breakfast with Kelly at IHOP on Saturday. Then Kelly and I went to see The Avengers. Okay, so if you have not seen this one, you are going to need to get off the internet right now and go see it! It.Was.Amazing! Don't get me wrong, I loved the Hunger Games and many others, but this is honestly one of the best movies I've seen in a long time! Awesome! Action-packed! Freaking hilarious jokes!!! Just do it! 

Sunday was pretty lazy too. We really just were not productive this weekend at all, and that's a bummer because we are moving in less than 2 weeks and I have so much to do still. Like Pack...So here's to a fun and exciting two weeks of packing and frantically running around everywhere will still trying to enjoy the summer sun!!! 

Until Next Time!

Lots of Love!!

~A