Mummy Dearest, may I please go to the Science Center?

A few Saturdays ago a friend invited me to join her at the Orlando Science Center for Science Night Live.

The main reason for going was to hear Dr. Heather Gill-Frerking speak about the Mummies of the World Exhibition. 

But mummies weren’t the only reason we were excited for a night in the science center!

We were also drawn in by the 12 drinks for $10 punch-card and the 21 and up sign.

Outfit for the evening

The science center was our play ground, with no kids in sight! 

We traveled all six floors, playing with toys, looking through microscopes, taking pictures, looking at planets through telescopes, gazing at laser light shows, and drinking all the beer and wine the bar stands would give us.

Pink Floyd Laser Show

When the clock struck 10, it was time to file into the auditorium to hear the stories of mummies from Europe, Egypt, and South America. 

It was fascinating, and the pictures were interesting, but sadly Heather did not bring any real life mummies with her.

As soon as it had begun, it was finished, so we sauntered out into the night and headed home.

Apparently the science center has a different event every month. If you are in town, you should check it out! I know I will!

P.S. I have so many more pictures and videos that I never post, but if you want to see them you should check me out on Snapchat!

Outfit Hacks: Maxi-mizing the Dress

So I've been searching the internet for new ideas on what to do with my old clothes.

On Pinterest I found the perfect outfit: A maxi skirt with a knotted up t-shirt.

It was adorable. 

The Inspiration:

My Issue:

I don't own a maxi skirt! Well technically I do, but it has a hole in it.

How I fixed the issue WITHOUT buying something new:

I had an old strapless maxi dress that I paired with a grey

Banana Republic t-shirt.

The Product:

A whole new outfit!

Kiss of Fire (Imdalind, #1) by Rebecca Ethington

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Description: Joclyn Despain has been marred by a brand on her skin. She doesn't know why it appeared on her neck, but she doesn't want anyone to see it, including her best friend Ryland, who knows everything else about her. 
The scar is the reason she hides herself behind baggy clothes, and won't let the idea of kissing Ryland enter her mind, no matter how much she wants to. 
The scar is the reason she is being hunted. 

If only she knew that she was. 

If only she had known that the cursed stone her estranged father sent for her 16th birthday would trigger a change in her. 

Now, she is being stalked by a tall blonde man, and is miraculously throwing her high school bully ten feet in the air. Joclyn attempts to find some answers and the courage to follow her heart. When Ryland finds her scar; only he knows what it means, and who will kill her because of it.

Kiss of Fire is book one of five, it is a Clean Young-Adult Paranormal Romance
Language: Low to None
Violence: Mild to Moderate
Sexual Content: Low to None

Stars: 5!!!!!

I absolutely loved this book! Reasons I loved this book:

1. I thought Joclyn's relationship with Ryland was adorable.

2. Even though Joclyn was a loaner (which I normally don't like) I found her to be extremely likable. She didn't push people away, she was just afraid of getting hurt.

3. The plot was entertaining and unpredictable!

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My onlyyyyyy issue with the book was that I spent half of it falling in love with Ryland and Joclyn's relationship, only to have it taken away :(. Needless to say, I will be reading the next one! 

A Hidden Fire (Elemental Mysteries Book 1) by Elizabeth Hunter

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Description: A phone call from an old friend sets Dr. Giovanni Vecchio back on the path of a mysterious manuscript he's hunted for over five hundred years. He never expected a young student librarian could be the key to unlock its secrets, nor could he have predicted the danger she would attract. 

Now he and Beatrice De Novo follow a twisted maze that leads from the archives of a university library, though the fires of Renaissance Florence, and toward a confrontation hundreds of years in the making. 

History and the paranormal collide in A Hidden Fire, the first book in the bestselling Elemental Mysteries series and semifinalist in the Kindle Book Review's Best Indie Books of 2012.

Stars: 3.5

I really liked this book but I feel like something was missing and I can't put my finger on it... The characters were great, the love story was hot, the villain was villainy, but something just felt missing. I think, maybe, my biggest issue with this book was that it was slightly unbelievable (well, as unbelievable as a vampire book can be lol). I guess I did not really understand why these books and poems were SO important to Gio. I also never figured out why Gio was copying a manuscript from B's library either. Maybe these questions will be explained in the next book? Also I feel like this book ended in such a way that I don't really feel a need to go buy the second book. If someone gave me the second book for free I would read it, but I'm not dying to find out what happens. All in all, this book was beautifully written but just seemed to be lacking somewhere. Check it out and tell me what you think! After all, it is free ;)