The Difference Party Caterer Dallas Can Make for Your Next Event

Celebrations are meant to be special occasions for a certain person or a group, and choosing the right party caterer Dallas can help to give the gathering the finishing touch it needs to make it something truly exceptional.

Whether you choose a banquet restaurant Dallas to hold your celebration, or you have experts come to your location, you’ll know that you’ve provided the appetizers or the entire meal that you want to match the theme and mood of the event.

Whether it’s for a birthday, an anniversary, Christmas, a wedding or baby shower, a retirement, or another important occasion, hiring a party caterer Dallas makes sure that you will be offering tasty and enjoyable food to your guests, without having to spend all of your time in the kitchen or making sure that the hors d’oeuvres haven’t run out.

This gives you the freedom to spend time with your guests and enjoy in the talking, dancing, games, and other entertainment. By choosing a great banquet restaurant Dallas, you’ll also know that everything you need has already been supplied, from food and drinks to the tables and chairs and perhaps even the music and stereo equipment.

With the right party caterer Dallas, you should be able to compare a number of different packages to make sure that you can find all of the options you want, and at the right price to suit your event budget. All of the preparation work will already be done for you when you’ve chosen the best company. This means that a busy schedule won’t get in the way of your ability to throw an outstanding celebration that everyone will remember for years to come.

Before making your booking, just make sure that you can provide the company with as accurate a guest headcount as you can. They will need to know how many guests will be attending in order to provide the right amount of food and drinks and to supply a room of the right size. By working together with the business you choose, you’ll ensure that everything goes exactly as planned.

Lightweight, Dependable and Convenient Delsey Helium Breeze

Delsey Helium Breeze is a luggage collection that is offered by innovate luggage design company, Delsey. There are different trolleys to choose from to suit the diverse needs of many travelers. There are carry-ons, garment bags, duffels, totes, and diverse suitcase sizes. Therefore, no matter what you may require, there is a bag that will accommodate your travel requirements.

This luggage is stylish and classic looking in appearance and available in different colors. However, what makes it truly impressive is its construction. Delsey Helium Breeze has been carefully designed to be lightweight and is lighter compared to most luggage brands. Furthermore, its exterior fabric is highly durable and is made from ballistic nylon. This travel gear was created to last a lifetime.

The different pieces in the collection have been carefully developed to provide travelers with convenience, functionality and quality. There are pockets on the inside and outside of the luggage to offer plenty of organization and convenient access to items. Furthermore, many of the trolleys in the collection are expandable, allowing for additional space when needed. The practicality of the Delsey Helium Breeze combined with its diverse carry handles, including a recessed telescoping handle system with one button operation and inline skate wheels, makes traveling to and from a vacation or business trip a true breeze.

Travel Directory Travel Blog

It has indeed been quite a while since there has been a post on this travel blog.

Why has it been so long?

Back in March 2009, I started a new travel directory (all-travel-sites.com) and a a travel blog. Since that time, I have been using that blog as the primary place for all our travel stories...not that we have been doing much traveling.

So if you are looking for further posts about Lizzie's travels, check the link for the travel blog.

Online Marketing Conference in Chicago

We are planning our next trip and it will be to attend an Online Marketing Summit at the Hilton in Chicago on the 27th of May. Adam has never been to Chicago and I haven't been there in years. One of my best friends is from and still lives in Chicago with her husband and two dogs.

The conference is only one day, so I'm hoping to have some time to take Adam to see all the sights of Chicago. We'll be spending the rest of our time working with my girlfriends' husband to do more training for search and online marketing.

Lanzarote Spain - Lanzarote Holiday

The new Travel Directory Blog just published an un-compensated guest post about Lanzarote Spain, which is the eastern most Canary Island that is about 80 miles off of the coast of West Africa and has some amazing volcanic scenery.
Photo by James Mitchell Lanzarote Photography

The guest post has made me add Lanzarote onto the list of places that Lizzie and I must absolutely visit in our future travels.
Be sure to check out the post and to visit the site of the guest author if you are searching for information on hotels in Lanzarote.

Back From SES NY

Last week, Lizzie my wife and I, attended the NY SES for the Thursday March 26th sessions. SES or Search Engine Strategies, is the the conference that all the top SEO’s attend. Lizzie and I split up and attended different sessions. My wife attended the Issues and Answers Track and I attended the Social Media...read more about our SES NY Trip

All Travel Sites- Niche Travel Directory

All-Travel-Sites.com, a niche travel directory was just started to support the travel related aspects of our growing SEO business. As it turns out we have multiple clients in the travel business, so a travel directory will be a valuable part of those marketing endeavors.

The travel directory was set up using the PHPlinkdirectory 3.4 script. We have multiple directories, but this is the first directory using the 3.4 version. The user interface is very easy to use, as it does compare to the earlier versions that we have used. But it also has a lot of improvements.

The biggest improvement that I love is the use of blogging features, such as an integrated article directory and the ability to add comments to individual listings. I have been a fan of directories that use these commenting features for sometime, but this is the first one I have owned with this feature...All I have to say is...sweet.

Do You Have a Travel Site?

If you have a travel site I recommend that you head on over to the travel directory and add your site. For a limited time, free listings will be added with the "Nofollow tag" disabled for the first year. After a year the listing owners will have the option of upgrading or having the "Nofollow enabled".

Please feel free to add any travel related articles as well.

Penn State for Youth Hockey

Last weekend, Lizzie and I had an overnight trip to Penn State to watch my son play in several youth hockey games. Sadly his team did not do to well, having lost both games that we where there to watch.
We did however get to do a little cruising around the State College campus to include a visit to the Penn State Creamery, which actually sells ice cream that is made on the campus as part of their dairy educations program. Individuals and organizations from all over the globe come to Penn State to take the Ice Cream Short Course, to learn how to make fantastic ice cream. And I must say, the Chocolate chip ice cream was delicious.

We also had the pleasure to eat at the Mad Mex restaurant for our evening dining on Saturday night. I had the most delicious Thai Curry Burito which had rice, curry of course and lots of pineapple.

We stayed at the Hampton Inn, and were very please with the hospitality we received. The brown bag breakfast was un-expected but very welcomed.
All in all, I would say we had a very relaxing little trip to State College, and I am sure that we will be back in the future, as my son will with out a doubt, play hockey there again.

Park City Double Diamond

It was a sweet day of skiing on this Park City Double Diamond. The view was sweet, and the powder was so light.

Park City Action Cam

In preparation for the Park City ski trip, Lizzie got me an action cam..I can't wait to get some sweet action videos of me falling down the mountain.

Pumped for Park City Trip Video

Here is a video I made for the Park City Trip, which was in response to an email from my brother-in-law asking if I was pumped about the ski trip to Park City.

Park City Utah Prep

In preparation for our trip to Park City on the 25th of January, I am doing some online activities to promote our trip and the various sites and posts that will be developed for the ski trip.

Park City Ski Trip preparation activities will include creating and joining various groups on different Social media websites.

Flickr activity:

• Joined Park City, Utah and Park City, Utah! group.
  
• Created a Park City Ski Trip Set
• Joined a skiing group
• Joined All World Ski Resorts

Wrote Park City posts here including:

• Preparing for Park City Ski Trip
• The Park City Utah trip announcement.
  

We created two Park City Resort websites which will be developed as blogs, with a primary goal of being sold within 6 months.

• Park-City-Resort.com
• Park-City-Ski-Resorts.com

Joined several groups on Mixx.

• Winter Sports
• Joined a Skiing Group
  

Found some cool Park City Blogs including:

• ParkCityJournal.com
• From the Parkcityjournal's site, I found out about SkullCandy.com, which is a new Park City company that sells stylish head phones. I don't know about the head phones, but I love the name.
• Found the snow board site BadBoySodas.com..sweet site.

I am sure I will be spending some more time online in preparation for the trip. First I may want to find my ski gear. I maybe getting a new set of googles, and new bibs as well. We will be renting our equipment when we get to the mountain. Lizzie's bro has arranged for us to take some ski lessons on our first or second day. From what some people have told me, when skiing on the new shaped skis handle much more differently, and to be able to appreciate them you need to get a lesson so that you can enjoy then to their max. I have heard that if you ski on shaped skis like you were on skis pre shaped skis, it will actually take more energy. Well at any rate, lessons are in order, and we shall see how we do.

I should be posting exclusively on the new sites during our trip, but I will be putting posts about any excellent meals we have onto our restaurant review site, thegrubhound.com. I will also be make some videos during the trip and will create some groups on Viddler.

Preparing for Park City Ski Trip

In preparation for our ski trip to Park City at the end of the month, I decided it would be wise to do a little bit of exercising. Even before I decided to start exercising I came across this video, and thought it would make a good post for the pre-Park City ski trip.

A friend of mine, suggested that I do wall squats, or at least that's what I think they are called. It involves putting your back against a wall and then squatting down so that your legs form a chair, then lift one leg off the ground and hold it for 15 to 30 seconds. Then do the same with the other.

In addition to the wall squats, I'll have to start doing some of the exercises on this video and on the SkiExerciseWorkouts.com website.

Bunbury Australia road trip (ITPv20)

I just came across this video of a Indie Tavel who visited Bunbury Australia recently. It from the sounds of Bunbury Australia video, I think it would be a great place for Lizzie and I to vacation some time.

Australia is definitely on the list of places for us to travel to.

Park City Utah

Park City Utah will be our next trip in January 2009. We will be going for a week with Lizzie's brother who likes to go on a ski trip every year. I skied in Park City about 10 years ago which was prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics which involved pumping a lot of dinero into the local economy as well as improvements to the slopes.

How quickly time flies, its hard to believe that our last trip was in November to Waves of the Outer Banks (reminder to get some more Outer Banks posts done).

Even longer than that, the last ski trip we were on was with Lizzie's bro to Whistler BC back in February of 2006. That was some great skiing. As I recall, we were told it was the best skiing they had had in ten years. I do recall skiing in more powder than I had ever been in, including while skiing in Europe.

The Park City lodging will be at The Canyons, which has slope side access...sweet...

We will be arriving early enough on a Sunday to get the free day of skiing that is offered by the resort...got to love free skiing.

We also might be taking a ski lesson while there as Lizzie's bro wants to improve his abilities. I think that is a splendid idea, since I have not had a lesson since the last time I was in Park City with my father who was a ski instructor gave me some free lessons. I had also taken a weeks worth of lessons when I was stationed in Europe over twenty years ago, so I am sure a ton of bad skiing habits have developed since then. Speaking from experience, I can honestly say ski lessons really make your skiing experience much more enjoyable.
Well, I hope to do some blogging about our trip while I am in Park City, since Lizzie made sure that there is Wifi, blogging from Park City is very doable.

Future Park City posts should include:

• Where to eat in Park City?
• Where to drink in Park City? It is a dry town isn't it?
• Where to party in Park City?
• Favorite slopes in Park City?
• Traveling to Park City?

If you have been to Park City, what advice can you give me?

Waves Outer Banks

Our Waves Outer Banks trip was very relaxing. Being it was the out of season time, not much was happening. Many days I would go out onto the beach and be the only person for miles. Prior to our getting in OBX, there had been a storm that had washed a bit of the beach away and left a ledge that went for almost the entire length of the beach. It made for some interesting walks to say the least. Below is one of the videos I made of me playing on the beach.
as much too cold to go in..I did wade in ankle deep several times, but that was about it.

Outer Banks in November

The lovely Outer Banks is then next location where we will be venturing to in the not to distant future. Lizzie has a friend who is a Fireman(oops fireperson) in Chicago who invited us to hang with here and her husband for a little vacation. They are actually waiting to make reservations due to possible work obligations that could potentially show up between now and then.


Since November is not the peak season in the Outer Banks, finding a sweet deal should not be a problem.
Lizzie recommends staying out of the huge touristy areas like Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills and the like. She always likes to stay in the smaller communities like Salvo or Avon or any of the other smaller communities on Hatteras Island.

As the time for the trip approaches, and during the trip, I am sure I will be completing a few more posts of our Outer Banks trip.

Past Outer Banks Trips

Here are a few of the posts I did about some of our past Outer Banks trips.

• The Beach at Avon
• OBX to Convalesce
• A Salvo Beach Walk Video
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Maine Artist - Russell D'Alessio

My apologies to the Maine Artist, Russell D'Alessio for continually butchering his name, which I was continually plagued with...that is having my name mispronounced.

Last year during our visit to Bar Harbor, Lizzie discover and fell in love with Russell's painting, and for her birthday, she got to purchase one of Russell's prints. After several email conversations with the D'Alessios, Lizzie and I were invited over to Russell and Linda D'Alessio's home for wine and cheese while we were in Bar Harbor.

Linda and Russell's home is truly a work of art in itself. Russell's art work adorns the colorful walls of their country home, and Linda frequently says she comes home to find the walls have changed with the movement of his work.

Russell truly inspired Lizzie, because he did not start doing the kind of painting he enjoys until after their children left home. For years Russell made a living doing things such as graphic design, and painting Maine landscapes, which seem to be quite popular.

After spending several enjoyable hours with Russell and Linda, Lizzie and I left the D'Alessio's with a few additions to our D'Allessio art collection pictured above.

If you like contemporary art, check out Russell's site. You can also see Russell's work at the Pretty Marsh Gallery in Bar Harbor as well as other galleries within the United States.

Bar Harbor Inn

As part of our Maine Vacation, after my cousins wedding, we took a trip to Bar Harbor much like we did last year. This year however, instead of staying at the Ledgelawn, we stayed at the Bar Harbor Inn. Below is the video I took of our rather messy room.


I will be reviewing our fine dining experiences we had at Bar Harbor Inn, which included two dinners and two breakfasts, in another post on Thegrubhound.com.

Lizzie purchased a package which included two nights, two dinners, two breakfasts, and the cruise on the Margaret Todd, which is the four mast schooner that resides at Bar Harbor.

Bar Harbor is a great Maine tourist town which you should visit at least once. Bar Harbor is located on Mt. Desert Island and is surrounded by Acadia National Park. No trip to Bar Harbor is not complete with out visiting Cadillac Mt and Thunder Hole.

Things we Liked about Bar Harbor Inn

1. Great food. The crab cakes at Bar Harbor Inn got rave reviews from Lizzie and were named the best Crab Cakes for 2007. I myself will recommend any of their lobster dishes.
2. Cozy robes to sit on the patio while sipping wine.
3. Heated pool(didn't use, but its a great feature)
4. Spa(again didn't use, but if we stayed longer we surely would have loved a couples massage)
5. Beautiful view of Bar Harbor.
6. Large modern bathrooms.
7. Extremely helpful staff.

Things to Work On

1. Wifi was not free. tsk tsk.
2. TV was not a flat screen and very small...sorry we are so spoiled.
3. Other than those two, I can not say anything else that we didn't find acceptable.
   

The Bar Harbor Inn is a great nostalgic place to vacation, and if you have the opportunity, we both highly recommend it the next time you are looking for lodging in Bar Harbor.

Auburn Hilton Garden Inn

This morning I awoke in our Hilton Garden Inn room around 730am wonderfully rested and ready to go. After going down to the ultra clean work out room where I did a measly 15 minutes on the elipitical trainer, I headed up to the room for a shower.

We arrived in Lisbon, ME Friday morning at 515am, after my bro drove the night through with only one stop outside of Boston for a facilities break and gas. Being it was so early, none of our relatives were awake so we headed down to the the T&A for some breakfast. Yea, you got to love the name...it doesn't stand for what you think it does. T&A's is a relatively new general store/dinner that is located in the old NAPA building in Lisbon. I chose to eat some of their fabulous blue berry pancakes and Lizzie had the regular pancakes. After we had just gotten our grub, my cousin Gary, who works at a Lisbon, ME Landscape Company, was up early to get some work done, showed up for some grub before heading off to work.

The primary purpose for our trip was for the Wedding of my cousin Scott's wedding. Since the reception was being held at the Hilton in Auburn, guests were encouraged to spend the night. Lizzie, just loves Hilton, so we reserved a room for both Friday and Saturday nights.

Impressions of the Auburn Hilton

Lizzie:
great view, clean room, comfortable...slept better at this hotel than any hotel in a very long time. excellent cookies at the front desk. Good shower...wonderful water pressure(oh she likes a minimum of 4 large towels and we only had three)...kitchenette was really nice to have in a hotel room.

Emperor:
Love the desk chair...comfortable bed...great shower...very happy with the exercise facilities.

Both: Had great sleep. Food was ok, but you would do better to go out in the surrounding communities for some fabulous local fare. Lobster anyone? Both glad that the WiFi was included which made keeping up with Plurk and email a breeze.
Two thumbs up.