THE NOT SO BLONDE TRAVEL

Ok first off, I am not engaged or planning to elope. At least not yet. This is just me, wondering about life and people's reactions when it comes to wedding planning. I have been to  many weddings, even been a bridesmaid a couple of times, and I have to say I am pretty lucky. My friends and family all have impeccable taste when it comes to wedding parties. Whether a destination wedding at the beach, a week long celebration Tunisian style, or an intimate French affair, every wedding I have been to has been amazing in its own way. And being a girl, you would think all these weddings would be the perfect inspiration for my own wedding, but nope. I am not sure why, but it's kind of the opposite. I feel like I just want to elope and go straight onto my honeymoon. But it doesn't mean I don't want to celebrate with all my friends. I just don't want the pressure of figuring out a date that works for everyone. I don't want the pressure of planning it all and ha...

I would have never thought thid day would come, but here it is.  Apparently dealing with society and/or our parents driving us crazy because we are 28 years-old and not married yet is not enough ... Now our friends are joining the party.  Whether sending you websites with dating apps to join ... Or trying to set you up on dates with guys that are exactly "your type" ... Or my personal favorite: just plain asking you "so when are you going to get married?" Well, and I know this is a surprise to all, but it is really, REALLY, R-E-A-L-L-Y hard to pinpoint your wedding date when you don't have a groom to marry. I guess if you were crazy enough you could plan a date, hire a caterer, and send out invites, and then hope a guy proposes before the date you planned in your head -:) But I am not crazy. And no I am not against marriage. I think if I were to find the right guy, we would make adorable little babies and live happily ever after. Yes just like ...

A few days ago, while on skype with my parents, I had an interesting conversation about how to find a husband with my married cousin, not that I am looking, but that is, apparently, irrelevant. What is relevant is that she is married and needs me to get married so our kids can be the same age and grow up together.   So step 1 is marrying me and for that to happen, she said I had to stop jumping from one island to another because I was not going to find a husband on the beach. I am not sure why I couldn't. I am pretty sure  people that go to the beach get married too.  But she was adamant. She said I had seen enough of the world and had to go to bars and restaurants to meet a man with a job. I guess guys on the beach don't have jobs.  So in a nutshell, for me to end up happily married, I needed to stop doing the stuff I love aka exploring the world and going on spontaneous trips with my girlfriends. Sounds miserable, no?  But then again I am ...

If you know me at all, you know I am the first to say flight attendants are sometimes kind of jerks, but mainly to each other, not to passengers. So I was a bit surprised to hear a friend of a friend complain that a flight attendant harassed her. Usually people complain about a delay, a reroute, uncomfortable  seats, older flight attendants, but never had I heard of any of my colleagues "harassing " passengers. Being curious, I had to ask what the story was. "Well I had my foot on the emergency equipment and she wouldn't stop telling me to take it off. I was sleeping and she kept on waking me up to take my foot down." As the words came out of her mouth, my smile was slowly widening. "But you are not allowed to put your foot ... " I started, but couldn't finish. "I know I was wrong, but I wasn't that wrong," she interrupted. What did that even mean? Wrong, but not that wrong ... "She was just doing her job. She do...