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The temperatures have finally dipped below 100 degrees in Austin, so it feels like fall is just around the corner. Since it's labor day weekend, I plan to take advantage of the (vaguely) dwindling warmth by swanning around, perhaps taking a dip at the inlaws' swank hotel pool, and sipping on a frosty beverage.
I hope you all have a swell holiday filled good weather, good fun, and good company!
I'm really not one for long flights but I have decided that I would like to spend the next several days in Singapore at this hotel:
Huh? What? Is that a cruise ship on top of a building next to a lake? Maybe, but the newly-built Marina Bay Sands is home to the largest, and highest, infinity pool, which looks a little something like this:
I am such a sucker for a good swimming hole that pretty much all else falls by the wayside. I don't care that the outside of the hotel looks like this:
My concern lies only in that 150 meter infinity pool and it's view
Not too bad for SD$379 ($277.40 USD). For more info, check out the Marina Bay Sands Site here
To celebrate Ike and Connie's shared birthday, I'm setting aside my usual irreverence and posting something... nice. It's such a magical day that I can almost feel the corners of my mouth turning up as I type that. Almost. Sure I'm delirious from planning a first birthday party for a kid that won't even remember it, but I could swear that there are unicorns with sparklers dancing across a rainbow right outside my window...
But seriously, check out the work of Jeroen Koolhas and Dre Urhahn, two dudes who turned a frown upside down by painting a slum in Rio de Janeiro with the brightest palette imaginable. By painting favelas (Brazilian/Portuguese for slum), Koolhas and Urhahn transform communities through color as well as education. Locals are provided with training and pay while reworking the favelas.
To learn more about the Favela painting project or to donate, click here.
Back in black on Friday so enjoy the rainbow while it lasts...
[Link via Arch Daily]