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05/14/2009

This UpTake "Spa Girl Getaway Contest" Is So 40 Whatever!

Silverado-resort-spa-lady  One of my most fun writing gigs is for UpTake, the travel site that searches over 5,000 other sites, making it one-stop-easy to plan a vacation. With a couple of clicks you can search through restaurants, hotels, attractions, and even full vacation packages, anywhere in the U.S. 

In addition to my dazzling and occasionally over-sharing contributions (hey, that maid didn't see anything!) to the UpTake Hotels blog, you will find many familiar and well-loved bloggers there, like lovely Gudrun Enger at the UpTake Attractions Blog, and the urbane Sharon Castellanos at the UpTake Restaurants blog. Of course, if you're visiting UpTake, you'll want to stop by the UpTake Vacations blog, helmed by the dangerously funny (don't read and drink unless you like to snarf) Whit Honea.

Right now the UpTake Lodging blog is running an amazing giveaway with the Silverado Resort in Napa Valley, CA: a "Spa Girl Getaway" for four lucky ladies who get to hang out by the pool at the swank resort, drink wine, and have a spa treatment.

I have decided to win this contest.

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40 Whatever Approved

Things to Do When We're 40 (The Not Bucket List)

  • A barbecue tour of the South
    We'll start in the Carolinas and end in Texas and sample the best barbecue America has to offer. Why? Because we like meat.
  • Hotel Living
    We like: mini bars, movies, and lounging around in our pajamas with our laptops right where they are supposed to be. We'll bring running shoes to pretend like we're going to work out, but really, who are we kidding. You see where this is going?
  • Knock some sense into dumb people
    We'd love to be the camp counselors on a show like the Real World or Rock of Love.
  • Eating Dinner in a Vineyard While the Sun Sets
    You know those scenes of a dining table set in a Tuscan or Sonoma vineyard dressed with beautiful linens and people sitting around it drinking wine and eating and laughing while the sun goes down? We want to be those people.
  • Yoga Retreat in New Mexico
    Some of our fondest memories are of spending time doing yoga together. Do other wannabe yoginis spend the entire class laughing together? We do.