Ladies' Home Journal

          The magazine I read was Ladies' Home Journal, I liked that they had a celebrity piece, hair product advice, what swimsuit best fits your body. I disliked that they had too much advertising. But I did enjoy reading the tips on swimsuits, hair products, and bronzers. The article I found interesting was The Vacation Nightmare That Changed My Life. This article was about a woman who was terrified to get on a plane but finally decided to go on vacation to Costa Rica with her family and lost her fear. But during they're vacation there was an incident where her husband had an accident and almost died from tripping during his run. Luckily they were able to rush him to the hospital and treat him quickly. He recovered in no time and they then were able to enjoy their vacation and do plenty of fun activities with their kids. After reading this article it made me what to plan a trip to South America or a tropical island. I also thought it would be interesting to follow travel agencies on twitter and look at flight packages to plan a trip for next year. 

Should the drinking age be lowered?

I think the drinking age should changed to 18 for many reasons. One of them being that so many teenagers do drink even though its illegal. Also so many people always say that at 18 you can serve for the military and have the right to vote why can't you buy alcohol and it is very true and it doesn't make sense. There's also so many other countries that their drinking age is lower and they have less underage alcohol related problems so maybe by lowering it, it may help increase underage drinking. And also by lowering it, 18 year olds will be drinking in public places so it will be supervised. If the legal drinking age were to be 18, colleges would be able to regulate alcohol use so students don’t get overly intoxicated. They can be monitored whereas when they are hiding and drinking you can’t really go sniffing their cups or making false accusations. This will also help

So I STRONGLY believe the drinking age should change for good reasons.

I read an article about a 15 year old boy drinking with his father and stepmother and lost consciousness and died 10 days later. I strongly believe that even though he was very young if they lowered the drinking age teenagers and adults will be more responsible and know their drinking limit. I also read another article in USA today about most teen drinking deaths aren't traffic related. It talks about how many parents are aware of the dangers from teenage drinking and driving but aren't as educated about all the dangers that drinking before age 21 can be related to. I think that if they were to lower the drinking age parents will want to be fully educated on the dangers and make sure that their kids are aware that they can drink but to a certain limit. 

It has been proven that in Europe where drinking age is lower than 21 there is less accidents than in the US where the age is 21. 

http://www.newser.com/story/124579/couple-charged-in-suicidal-sons-death.html


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/17/underage-drinking-madd-alcohol/2070405/

Love traveling!!!

Do you love traveling? I do, I would love to travel the world someday. I would love to go to different countries, meet new people, learn different languages, learn about new cultures do it all. Even though I haven't gone to many different countries yet, so far the only one I've been to is Mexico and I love it. For the past three years I've been going two to three times a year and I absolutely enjoy it not only because I get to spend time with my family but I love going to different places in Mexico. So far I've been to Mexico City, Morelia, Puerto Vallarta, Ixtapa, and Cancun and they have such beautiful places. And my plan is to go to all the beautiful places in Mexico and then go to more countries. My favorite part of traveling is packing I don't know why but I just get so excited to pack. I booked my flight to go to Mexico for New Years last week and I'm already thinking about packing all my stuff. Lol. Some tips I have for packing are make a list of all the stuff you'll need to take with you maybe a month in advance and then go through the list and see what you have and what you'll need and buy all the things little by little. And you'll want to pack an outfit for each day you're staying but also pack a few extra outfits just in case for any type of weather.

I read this article in the New York times that in Spain they had a hotel that would have guest hashtag certain things on twitter to meet new people and get hotel service . For example,  “Twitter concierge” using hashtags like #fillmyfridge; flirt from poolside Bali beds by tweeting numbers printed atop the beds, like “How’s it going #balibed10?”; and sip cocktails while checking their smartphones for a live feed of virtual conversations bubbling up from every corner of the hotel.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/travel/a-hotel-room-with-140-characters.html?ref=travel