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Florida is one of the most exciting places to visit in USA. It is popularly known as the sunshine state as it has sunshine all round the year. Florida is one of the best destinations suited to visit for every occasion whether it is honeymoon, trip with your children, or even to enjoy the festive holidays. Florida is well known for its excellent beaches and the sub tropical climate. Here is a list of few of the must see places in Florida:
In Tampa the first place which you need to visit is the Busch gardens. It is a 335 acre theme park all based on African theme featuring beautiful fountains, beautiful water rides and other amusing rides. The end feeling which remains after an exciting visit to the Busch gardens is an all in all thrilling experience with loads of memories. It is a complete treat to visit this place as it has all family rides and the best animal exhibits; it has a treat for the people of all ages’ right from the age of five years to sixty.
If you are looking forward for some more animal destinations then visit the Lowry park zoo where you can have a glance of almost 2000 animals. Recently the Lowry Park Zoo has been awarded as the number one Zoo in the world. Further to add to your excitement the Zoo does not merely have exhibits of animals but you have a wide range of rides as well as shows.
If you love fishes and have a dream to swim along with them; then here is one of the best places waiting to fulfill this dream of yours. For this you need to visit Florida aquarium and you can have a dive with the sharks and dolphins. The Florida aquarium is a cool way to see the inner world of water. The aquarium has almost ten thousand sea plants at its exhibit.
Do not forget the beaches in Florida; they are among the most well maintained beaches and the North beach has the maximum tourist. It is one of the best swimming area, a day is worth spending at the beach sunbathing and relaxing. To my knowledge visiting the beach is one of the best options to feel relaxing. Further to add spice to the mixture there is Fort De Soto Park known for its beautiful, scenic, natural setting and the local wildlife.
Another thing which you cannot afford to miss is the Walt Disney World resort, it is the large complex having several theme and water parks and not to forget the magic kingdom. SO if you visiting Florida one destination not to be forgotten is the Walt Disney world resort.
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When planning a family vacation along the USA east coast, one of the destinations worth considering is Chincoteague Island Virginia. This beautiful island is located within a few hours of Baltimore, Washington DC or Norfolk Virginia. Located on the eastern shore of Virginia, Chincoteague Island is easy to reach and a relatively inexpensive vacation resort.
Chincoteague Island has something for every member of the family. The island is best known for its wild ponies, made famous by the novels “Misty of Chincoteague”, “Stormy” and others. Also famous for it’s seafood, Chincoteague is home to excellent local oysters, clams, flounder and other delicacies.
Families can spend time together, as well as find activities for any member of the group. Men might enjoy local fishing while ladies explore the shops and boutiques. Kids will be delighted to see and touch local wild ponies, swim at the sandy beaches or enjoy miniature golf or a scooter rental.
Downtown Chincoteague is a mix of art, clothing, restaurants and specialty food shops. Artists display every manner of nautical art, including decoys, wildlife carvings, sculpture, pottery, photographs, paintings and more.
Minutes from Chincoteague is Assateague Island. Sharing the island is Assateague National Sea Shore and Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge is one of the most popular USA, especially among bird watchers. Ducks, geese, swans, egrets, herons, and dozens of other shorebirds are seen here. Upon entering the refuge, Birdwatchers can check in at the visitors center, then make the short drive to the beach, explore the seashore and hike the many trails. Of particular interest to birders is the Wildlife Loop, which leads thru forest, marsh, and the lagoon.
Beach lovers will find beautiful sandy beaches, both on the oceanside and along Tom’s cove. Visitors can swim, sunbathe, walk the beaches, search for shells, and spot wild ponies on the beach and porpoises in the ocean.
Anglers will find Chincoteague to be a good place to take a fishing vacation. There is surf fishing, pier fishing, flounder fishing, deep sea fishing, crabbing, clamming and more. The waters are also a great place to powerboat, sail, jet ski or kayak.
The combination of small town atmosphere, local art, recreation, scenery, abundant wildlife and great beaches make this among the best values in family vacations along the eastern seaboard.
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charming beaches, clear waters, a pleasant climate, verdant green surroundings, a affluent culture and history and an abundance of entertainment and things to do! Malaysia offers you all this and more! Malaysia’s one of the top holiday destinations in South East Asia because of its position, topography, amiable people and its warmth. Let’s see what makes Malaysia such a fun place to visit – – Location Malaysia’s in the center of South East Asia, bordered by Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Philippines and Indonesia. This location makes it easy to reach Malaysia from any of these five countries. Apart from this, Malaysia’s connected by air to all other parts of the world. The national carrier Malaysian Airlines and the low cost carrier Air Asia have their base in Malaysia. So the capital city Kuala Lumpur is connected to a vast network of cities in all countries. Get great deals on Kuala Lumpur flights from London, Australia and all countries in Asia on the low cost carrier Air Asia. Travel to Malaysia on board the friendly Malaysian Airlines from USA, London, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand or any country in Asia. – Accommodation Accommodation in Malaysia is very inexpensive when compared to other similar countries. You can book a good five star accommodation at less than $60 per night. And if you are a budget traveler, there are lots of decent low frills hotels available at very cheap rates. Most of the hotels offer free breakfast. The staffs are friendly and service is invariably good wherever you go in Malaysia. – Travel A holiday to Malaysia would be absolute if you visit all the important destinations – Kuala Lumpur, Langkawi, Penang, Johor, Malacca, Sabah and Terengganu. Your holiday to Malaysia should ideally start from the capital city Kuala Lumpur. To travel to other destinations in Malaysia from Kuala Lumpur, it’s ideal to use the public transport system which is very reliable. Take a ferry or flight to go to Langkawi. Taxis are very reliable in Malaysia. So it’s better to take a taxi to travel to your destination than driving on your own which can be tedious. – Places to see 4. Kuala Lumpur –The capital city of Malaysia has a lot of attractions to offer. Take a day trip and see the city sights –stroll through Chinatown, see the Petronas tower, visit National Museum, take the life to the top of the KL city tower for a superb view of the city and visit Batu caves. Spend a full day in Genting Highlands; get to experience the world’s fastest cable car and enjoy the theme parks in the “city of entertainmentâ€?. 5. Langkawi This is a charming archipelago of islands that can be reached by ferry or flight from the mainland. Make sure to book a resort for your accommodation here and have fun in the sun and the beach. 6. Penang Penang is a dream destination for a holiday with lush green mountains and lovely beaches. There are lots of things to do in Penang for the adventure minded like snorkeling, surfing, hiking, sailing and cycling. Visit Georgetown, Penang National Park, botanical gardens ad Penang Beach. Penang’s a great place for cheap shopping. apart from this, visit Terengganu for its marvelous beaches, the Royal Abu Bakar Museum in Johor, Mount Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu bird sanctuary in Sabah and ort Margherita and Sarawak Museum in Sarawak. Malaysia travel agents can get you a cheap holiday package that covers accommodation, travel and sightseeing. So, if you want a cheap tour to Malaysia, contact a travel agent and get holiday package details from him. Malaysian Airlines also sometimes offers some tour packages that offer a three night accommodation package for travelers to Malaysia. Make use of such offers for a great holiday at low cost . The internet is also a good source to obtain superb Malaysia holiday deals. You can get details of Malaysian travel agents on the net whom you can contact for the best travel deals. These agents should be able to provide with details of reliable Malaysian travel guides to direct you around all places of interest. So have a wonderful time in Malaysia, Truly Asia!
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Point Pleasant is the ultimate Jersey Shore family destination, offering exciting activities for a day trip, a week end, or as a summer vacation destination?
Point Pleasant Beach bills itself as family-oriented. The Boardwalk, one of the nicest in the state, stretches for a mile and has a first class aquarium, family amusements, rides, games of chance, arcades, food, live entertainment, and a one-of-a-kind Victorian-style ice cream parlor.
The beach is safe and clean where children build sandcastles and body surf in the ocean while their parents bask in the sunshine and cool salt-air breezes.
It has all the fanfare and excitement expected of a top rated beach town.
Downtown Point Pleasant boasts a shopping district with many unique shops and antique establishments, making the area a great location for all ages. And if shopping builds up an appetite, the many fine restaurants, coffee shops and cafes are there to satisfy whatever your taste is.
At night, the Boardwalk vibrates with colorful lights, exciting rides twisting with screams and music, and in the arcades you can hear the bleeps of the latest video games. For adults, several nightclubs with the latest music blasting away can be heard along with their dancing into the late night hours.
The commercial fishing industry is still an important year-round activity, and the sea-food restaurants and retail shops along Channel Drive and Inlet Drive are popular with residents and visitors alike.
Interested in becoming a resident, Point Pleasant was named the 3rd best place to live in the USA by the July 1997 issue of U.S. by Money Magazine,
Only a one-hour drive from New York City, or an hour and a half ride on New Jersey Transit, with a 15 minute walk to the boardwalk, this small town on the Jersey shore is a popular vacation spot for North New Jersey and NYC tourists, or “benny’s” as the locals call them.
Major Attractions
• JENKINSON’S AQUARIUM -Explore two floors of exotic fish, mammals, and birds. Facilities include a petting tank and a fossil room.
• POINT PLEASANT BEACH BOARDWALK Over a one-mile long boardwalk with arcades, amusements, entertainment, food stands and beach train. During the summer they also have fireworks and laser light shows.
• Point Pleasant Beach – clean beaches, accommodations, amusements, bathhouses, daily or seasonal badges, boardwalk, fishing, lifeguard on duty until 6:00, picnicking, scuba diving and surfing. There are both public and private beaches in Point Pleasant. A public access beach can be found at the southern end of town with an entrance on Ocean Avenue across from the Dunes Motel. It’s free, but be aware there are no lifeguards, so use common sense if swimming. Everything’s open from Memorial Day to Labor Day with lifeguards on duty from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.
• The Festival of the Sea – One of Point Pleasant Beach’s top events. Held Downtown in September as an end of summer gathering. Local restaurants and vendors provide the large crowds with delicacies such as crab cakes, shrimp skewers, paella, soups and bisques, lobster, and other seafood items.
• The Point Pleasant Beach race – Sunday September 9th 2007, is a major offshore power boat Race. If you are on the beach or in a boat between Point Pleasant Beach and Bay Head, you’re in for a treat as boats roar down the ocean at speeds up to 115 miles per hour.
• Fishing – Point Pleasant offers the opportunity to catch some big tuna, bluefish and fluke. For those who just want to kick back, tours offer the use of all their equipment, leaving you with nothing to worry about. Party and charter boats go offshore from the Broadway Basin or Ken’s Landing.
• Kayaking – In summer, at Point Pleasant Beach, the north end is a kayak zone with nice 3- to 6-foot curlers at high tide when winds are from the east. During the off season, on the north side of the Manasquan Inlet, Manasquan Beach has an off-shore break that’s great after the crowds leave for the season.
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THE PROMISE
By Sandy Brewer
There is something universal and transcendent about Christmas, an underlying harmonic that draws people together, sparking the potential for uplifting the human spirit. It’s not limited to a religious point of view. It’s broader than that and mystically amorphous – this possibility, this feeling, that all is well in spite of what might be going on. It’s an emotion that can be triggered by the colors of the season, the lights, the music – even the pathos – spreading from the ice skaters in Rockefeller Center to the pristine wilderness of western Canada to the beaches of Tahiti. Peace on earth, good will toward men. Women, too.
For me, it’s always been the music…
So, not surprisingly, last December I found myself seated front and center in the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, listening to it’s annual musical presentation, “Colors of Christmas.” Love Peabo Bryson! Later in the program Deniece Williams took the stage. Strobe lights danced colorfully all around her as she began her solo. “Oh Holy Night.” Her rendition was stirring.
Unexpectedly, awesomely, I was drawn into the landscape of my life…
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It was a long time ago, over half a century to be exact, when I sang “Oh Holy Night” for the last time in the Christmas Eve service as a member of the children’s choir of my church. I was in the eighth grade, and when I graduated in the spring, the powers that be were going to kick me and all my aging classmates out. Too big for the choir robes, I guess.
But for one last time, this was my moment. I walked solemnly down the side aisles of the darkened church with the other members of the choir, penlights held waist high shining up at the towering cathedral ceiling, as we marched around the back of the church and up the broad center aisle, forming a two-by-two processional making our way up to the altar. The organ blared with a strange sonorous triumph, as only an organ can do, and the packed congregation belted out “Joy to the World.” Garbed in long, sleeveless black robes covered with white, cherubic tops, we quietly shuffled ourselves into the form of a cross on the elevated altar. It was a big church, a big altar, and with penlights aglow we made quite a fine religious symbol, if I do say so myself.
The congregation completed their song. Miss Miller, baton in hand, stepped out to the center of the aisle, faced us kids, and with a mighty down-stroke of her right hand, we began my favorite Christmas carol of all time. “Oh, Holy Night.”
To the world of the fifties, I was just another kid singing her heart out at a Christmas Eve pageant on a blustery winter evening in the toddling town of Chicago. To my school I was an “A” student and president of my class. And in what I came to know as my “away from home world,” these were all true things. But there was a darker, sinister, totally secret world in which I was also forced to live. In my “at home world” I co-existed in the brutal underbelly of humanity with a sadistic, rapist father and a venomous, all controlling mother. Not that they looked that way to others. My father was a deacon of the church, and my mother, well, in truth, she was always a little crazy. Wall-papered kitchen, fluffy curtains, and pillbox hats notwithstanding, when the doors to my house closed every night, I was entrapped in a life-threatening, hidden world, dangerous and terrifying, like the catacombs of the sewers.
It was traumatic and cruel beyond words, but I survived as a child by being able to compartmentalize into my separate worlds. Yet sometimes these “compartments” came much too close to each other, and on rare occasions, like the Christmas Eve of my thirteenth year, they almost collided. As I stood at the altar, chiming in with gusto on the alto harmony of “Oh, Holy Night,” I quietly hallucinated. Right there, in that darkened church, in front of God and everybody. Although, at the time I didn’t know that was what was happening to me. I would sing a few bars and then suddenly I would be somewhere else. A few more bars, and, once again, this altered reality – a reality in which I had just given birth to a son. In a flash, I popped back to the altar, still singing.
Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angels’ voices
It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth.
Less than six weeks later, denial could no longer hold the physical forces within my body at bay, and I gave birth to a little boy, my father’s son. He died in my arms a short time later…
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I sat there in the darkened theater listening to Deniece, witnessing the dancing strobes, and watching from within a panorama of my life. There was no sorrow or regret, the healing had happened for me years before. Yet, except for when I wrote my memoir, PURSUIT OF LIGHT: An Extraordinary Journey, it was so rare for me to reference my current life with any part of my past. Yesterday had become like a past life – irrelevant compared to today.
And that’s when it struck me. It had been exactly fifty years (minus twelve days) since I had last sung that carol in the choir. In those fifty years I had gone through hell, and then rose above it to find the depth of my own being. Fifty years, during which I had journeyed from a child whose parents had literally tried to kill her to a woman who became a successful therapist, speaker, author, and advocate. A woman who is known for her laughter and passion for life. I looked at my husband, the man of my dreams seated on my left, and thought about my three adult children and outrageous grandchildren. I was filled with wonder! Fifty years ago I didn’t think I’d live to be eighteen, then I didn’t think I would live to be thirty. Yet here I was, a happy, prospering, fulfilled woman. I was stunned by the wonder of it! How a child, in the midst of horror, found a way to hold on to a spark of light of what she might be and keep that spark alive. How children and adults all over the world today in the direst of circumstances manage to breathe life into the possibility of themselves and a better tomorrow. The magnificence, the dominance, the power of the human spirit! My heart was filled with awe of what my journey had been and what possibilities still lay in front of me. Awe for others and what their journeys have been. What a privilege to have a life, and to be a part of a life force that will not quit, that perseveres for the promise of all that we can be both individually and as a collective.
It’s winter once again. Even in California you can tell. No snow, but there’s a chill in the air. Another Christmas rolls around. If this season finds you in difficult times, may you know grace greater than your pain, and love greater than your sorrow. For whatever our personal challenges are, the greatest aspect of our truest nature as human beings is love.
Peace on earth, good will to all of us whether we are Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or like me, none of the above. Peace on earth and good will in our hearts for all that we might be or might choose to become, no matter where we have been or what we have experienced.
Sandy Brewer is author of Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey, a rave triumph of the human spirit. An authentic, true-life page turner, horrific and inspirational, brilliant and compelling, filled with practical teachings of empowerment and compassion. Beautifully blending wisdom, humor and pathos, it profoundly demonstrates an uplifting pathway out of darkness into light.
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