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2024 Year in Review and Looking Towards 2025

Happy new year!

It’s 2 weeks into 2025 and I’ve finally completed my year in review post for 2024.

2024 was a huge year of travel for us.

Mostly they were road trips across Canada and the USA.

I’ve easily added 2 terabytes of travel photos to my backlog in Adobe Lightroom.

By January or February 2024, we finally felt settled into a routine and rhythm for life in the USA. That gave us the time and energy to focus more time towards organising more ambitious trips and travel planning compared to the previous year.

It was not all smooth sailing in though…

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Lounge Review: Inside Amex Centurion Lounge Las Vegas Airport

Las Vegas airport Amex Centurion Lounge, entrance.

In 2021, the Las Vegas airport Amex Centurion Lounge was refreshed and reopened to the public.

We were in Las Vegas back in August 2024, but didn’t get a chance to visit the lounge when waiting for our flight back to Houston as the wait list for the lounge was 20+ people long.

In November, we were back at Las Vegas airport after a 11 day trip driving through Utah, Arizona and Nevada.

This time it was a Monday and the airport (and lounge) was much quieter! No waitlist to get into the lounge.

We had about 30 minutes at the Las Vegas Amex Centurion Lounge before it was time to head to our gate to catch our flight.

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Turn Your Fujifilm Instax prints into a Personalised Photo Art For your Wall

Do you have a bunch of Fujifilm Instax or Polaroid film prints laying around the house (or stowed away in a box)… never to be seen again?

The best way to gain joy from our photos and bring back great memories is to see these photos frequently. That means making it as visible as possible.

So here’s a fun way to showcase those Instax you don’t know what to do with.

Turn them into a framed piece of wall art for your home.

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Flight Diary: Flying on Qantas Airbus A330 Business Class (Perth – Sydney)

Last year, in August 2023 we made the big move from Perth, Australia to Houston, USA.

It was a long journey hopping across multiple time zones and taking three medium-to-long haul flights to get to the literal opposite side of the world.

Around 21 hours of flight time and 5.5 hours of airport layovers.

In a previous blog post, I shared my flight experience in United Airline’s Polaris business class from Sydney to Las Angeles.

Today, I want to dive into our bittersweet moment of leaving our hometown of Perth, albeit temporarily, to have a once in a lifetime experience of living and working in another country.

We were fortunate to be flying in business class on my husband’s company dime for the all segments of our journey to the USA.

We flew in the Qantas Airbus A330 business class cabin for our 4 hour flight from Perth to Sydney.

So lets dive into how it went.

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Lounge Review: Inside Air New Zealand International Lounge, Sydney

Air new zealand international lounge entrance

There are two Star Alliance business class lounges at Sydney Airport—Air New Zealand International Lounge and Singapore Airline SilverKris Lounge.

Last year, when we flew United Polaris business class from Sydney to Las Angeles for our move to the USA, we got the chance to check out both business class lounges.

Today, I want to talk about our experience and first impressions of the Air New Zealand International Lounge.

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