Busch Gardens’ Food & Wine Festival 2014: Menus and Pictures

Busch Gardens’ second annual Food & Wine Festival is going on now through June 29 on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Guests at the Williamsburg, Virginia theme park can purchase sample-size portions of native food and beverage items from a variety of countries and regions. Most of last year’s culinary regions have returned. Austria is one […]

Free Iced Coffee Day at Dunkin’ Donuts in Select States, Monday March 31, 2014

As a way to welcome in spring, Dunkin’ Donuts is offering coffee connoisseurs a refreshing treat. FREE Iced Coffee! Yes, you read that right. Absolutely free. During normal business hours, participating Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and northwest Florida are offering free small (16 oz.) iced coffee all day long on […]

‘Be More Tea’ with Lipton Tea and The Muppets

In a world buzzing with lattes, espressos, and all of their coffee-coated cousins, the lowly tea leaf can get overlooked. If coffee is the outgoing party person of the beverage world, then tea is the laid-back listener chillin’ on a lounge chair. Lipton has that very theory in mind with its new “Be More Tea” […]

Celebrate Your Super Disney Side with a Walt Disney World Vacation in 2014

My favorite Super Bowl ad is always the one where some revered player says “I’m going to Disney World! (or Land as the case may be). The folks at Disney sure know what they’re doing because that is always the time of year that I most want to be in a Disney park or resort. […]

Life is Good Introduces new Coffee Collection

I talk about tea a lot. I even write about it once in a while … like here … and here. Iced or hot, I always have time for tea. However, I know a lot of you out there enjoy a nice hot cup o’ joe, so this one’s for you. Partnering with The J.M. Smucker […]

Fitness and Nutrition Tips: How to Get Fit and Stay Motivated with ‘Got Milk?’ in 2014

With the new year, a lot of folks have made resolutions to get into better shape and shed unwanted poundage. In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a fitness kick (Get it? Fitness….kick….) myself. Check out how to win a FitBit Flex and the runDisney Princess Marathon Weekend in particular. I’m on […]

Get Your Bits Fit: Win a Fitbit Flex in the TEAS’ TEA Sweepstakes

Who doesn’t start out the new year by vowing to work out more, weigh less, or improve themselves in some way or another? While intentions may be good, they invariably fall by the wayside. We all need something to get us motivated to keep moving. The folks at TEAS’ TEA had that very thought in […]

PEEPS Dessert Recipes from Great Wolf Lodge

It’s just not a holiday until the PEEPS® come out. Those sweet, cute, and incredibly yummy marshmallows themed to every special day from Easter, Valentine’s Day, and Halloween to Thanksgiving and Christmas have been making the world a happier place since 1953. I’ve even seen 4th of July PEEPS® … or perhaps that was just my wishful […]

Busch Gardens’ Christmas Town 2013: Blogger/Media Preview

From pine-scented pathways and colorful conifers to whimsical wreaths, sparkly garlands, and more than six million lights, it’s all in the details at the fifth annual Christmas Town event at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. An all-new decorating tour, animal encounters, joyful musical shows, and the park’s always delicious food and beverage choices enhance the thrills of […]

Ocean Spray brings its bog to the 2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival

I’ve had a craving for cranberries for as long as I can remember. Always my favorite food at Thanksgiving, it took me a while to figure out that you can buy cranberry sauce year-round (I’m sort of a slow learner), but once I did, I ate the stuff constantly (just ask my roommates). That was […]

Howl-O-Scream 2013: Busch Gardens ups the ante for Halloween events everywhere

  How do you take an already great Halloween event and make it even better? If you’re an ordinary theme park, you add themed dining to the venue and call it a day. If you’re Busch Gardens, you add themed dining and insert amazingly talented actors into it for an extraordinary dinner theatre experience. Oh, […]