The Balance - Page 14 of 17 - A Life and Style Blog By Teresa Desouza

Thankful

Happy turkey hangover day guys! Thanksgiving has always been one of my favvv holidays and mid-October is the best time for it. The weather is in the ideal not-to-hot-and-not-to-cold stage, we’re due for a long weekend (when was labour day again?) and there’s an abundance of food. Perfection, no?

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Minnesota Travel Diary

I’m going to be a little stereotypical here guys – the one about Minnesotans is true. I have never met a group of people so nice.

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Back To School Essentials

Back to school season is in full swing, and I couldn’t be happier. It is one of my favorite times of the year, like ever. Almost better than Christmas.

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Miami Travel Diary

WELCOME TO MIAMI (as Mr. Will Smith says)

Miami trips are an annual occurrence for
my family and I. We usually reserve a week in May for the visit, and
this time was no different (this post is a little late, but it’s nice to
reminisce).

We
love laying on the beach for a couple days, taking a dip in the condo
pool, enjoying some cool spots to eat and an overall relaxing mini-vaca.
Who doesn’t love tanning (melting) on the beach in 50 degree weather?

Growing
older, I am realizing how little time we actually get to hang out as a
family. So we always take advantage when we all get a little break to
kick back together. This year I was lucky enough to bring my boyfriend
along, which was fun – since it was his first time in Miami. It was also
our first trip with my family – did we survive? Yes, yes we did.

My
family actually really likes him, (I swear they would rather have him
as their kid than me) and we all ended up bonding and becoming closer as
a little unit. My family is SUPER cool – but really, they are actually
all amazing people and I am lucky to call them mine.

A few of my favorite spots in Miami:

A few travel buddies

Poolside

The greatest fish tacos you will ever consume ~ I enhaled them, from My Ceviche, the cutest seafood spot.

All the pretty palm trees

Beach polariods

6am sunrises

Perfect dinner at TiramesU

Raptors vs. Miami heat @ the NBA Playoffs

Lucky for us we were sitting w/ fellow Canadians – creating our own little Raptors section.

Harbour front dinner at Largo (basically more fish tacos)

Boating season.

Too hot to wear anything but a dress

South Pointe Park

My mom’s fav Italian place – we had to stop by

South Beach streets

BAYBREEZE boat ~ our ride for the afternoon