Culture Nuggets 🌍

So, I've been apart of a Spanish Meetup group for the past 3 years. They always have a summer beach party, but this year was different. This year we combined out summer beach party with a local Peruvian group to celebrate The Independence Day of Peru. It was an amazing experience. Not only did I get to speak Spanish with native speakers, I made new friends and learned so much about Peruvian culture, politics and agriculture. The BBQ was amazing, I threw a few impossible burgers and ears of corn on the grill and played Jenga with a free children I met there. I'm actually meeting up with one of the maybe speakers that I met there soon to practice Spanish. I've been looking for a native language partner to months so I'm super excited! Yesterday I was in bilingual, extrovert heaven!! Happy Independence and 200 year anniversary Peru 🇵🇪🎉 

May 22, 2021 was the best day of my life. I got married to the love of my life that day. My mother in law decorated the church and made it look like a princess fairy garden, just what I always imagined!! My two best friends sang a duet as I walked down the aisle, our military friends performed a sword ceremony, we jumped the broom and we danced and took shots with the wedding party back at my house after the reception. The next day we went on a road trip to Indianapolis, Indiana where we got real adventurous. We went to Painting With a Twist where we painted a portrait of a tree, axe throwing which was very fun but physically challenging, the Escape Room where we looked for clues to escape from a simulated jail cell, horseback riding where we met another couple who also loves to travel and Cirque Italia where we saw a cool acrobatic tricks. Our honeymoon was very adventurous but it was also very romantic. We went to a couple's retreat for 2 days that had a hot tub, a steam room, a ...

Here in Troy, Michigan is a new sushi restaurant. It's really cool because its set up like a traditional Japanese restaurant. The pricing is great for the amount of food you get and a wide variety of sushi, made to order. The food comes out on a conveyor belt, which you can pick the food up from there as it floats by you. There are other food items like ramen, rice, soups and desserts on the menu that can be special ordered. They even give you prizes once you've consumed a certain number of plates, which was a surprising treat!! We had a blast. Check out my YouTube video above to see how we liked it at Kura Revolving Sushi Bar. 

I love church and I love singing, My pastor asked me to sing during service so I decided to sing, "I can only imagine". Check it out!

A very special Christmas!! So my beloved boyfriend decided to surprise me with the ultimate Christmas gift on December 25, 2020.  My mother and I joined his family for Christmas dinner. We all prayed and ate the holiday meal together as we shared laughs and funny stories. Then we decided to take a few family photos. We took about 4 pictures on his sister's phone. The camera on the cellular phone counted down from 10 to 1 each time. During the last photo, we all posed and smiled as the camera counted down. By the time the camera got to 4, my boyfriend Omari jumped out of his spot. Everyone stared at him, yelling and asking him why did he move. Then he dropped to his knee and asked me to marry him. We all screamed in awe of his random act of love! We were all shocked and very excited to say the very least. Check out everyone's reaction in the photo below....                                ...

  So, while I was in California back in September 2020 I purchased  some turtles! They were only 2 weeks old when I first got them and they are growing pretty fast! So far they are very sweet. Check out this video to see some turtle action!! Oh and don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel ;-)