Thursday, May 17, 2012

It's On Like Donkey Kong!

La Concha Restaurant at La Concha Resort
San Juan Puerto Rico / More photos here.

It's on like Donkey Kong. 

And you know why?  Because it's about to go down over the next several months and I'm super excited about it too!

In April 2013, The Passport Party Project is throwing a hip travel event in San Juan Puerto Rico at a hip hotel called La Concha Resort in San Juan's hip Condado District to celebrate the successful end to Part 1 of The Passport Party Project's first global awareness campaign and the start of the Expedia® contest that will give away all-expense paid trips to 6 lucky girls (and a parent or guardian) so that they can get their first passport stamp!  And you know what, if the parent or guardian doesn't have a passport, we're going to get them one too.  #boom

AND YOU'RE INVITED!
I'm inviting anyone and everyone who has ever been an advocate of The Passport Party Project to show up in Puerto Rico for a Wrap Party like no other.  Bloggers, non-bloggers, families, solos, couples, girlfriends, doesn't matter.  The idea is to have a great weekend full of festive dinners with fun surprises and a trip to Old San Juan for some scrumptious sangria coupled with culture, history and lively entertainment.  It's a celebratory weekend that you won't want to miss.  And you don't even need a passport!  (Although if you get your first passport ever between now and April 2013 and you attend the Wrap Party, I've got a little something for you.)


Chancie has something to show you.  =)
#PassportPartyProject #Austin
CALLING ALL MEDIA PARTNERS AND POTENTIAL SPONSORS

I'm hoping to attract media partners and sponsors who want to be a part of a travel event that celebrates giving girls a world view over the next 12+ months and who will be a part of making this a celebration we won't forget.  Kinda like Jet Blue did when they donated a set of roundtrip tickets to San Juan to be given away at random to one lucky person who is registered for the party.  #yaheard?

VIP REGISTRATION IS OPEN

To register, check out the dedicated Wrap Party page for both the room block (which opened on May 15)  and VIP registration link to secure one of 50 spots at the party.  I don't think you'll find a lower room rate than the one offered, but keep in mind that once the block is sold out, so does the low pricing.

Sisters Victoria & Viviana with their first passports!
#PassportPartyProject #Austin
WORTH CELEBRATING

To date, 30 girls have participated in a passport party and are on their way to their very first passports thanks to travel and lifestyle blogger volunteers and venues like The Miracle Foundation and Casa Moderna Miami Hotel and Spa and organizations like The Ann Richards School and The Honey Shine Mentoring Program.  In a few weeks, The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa will host another 10 girls from Smart-Girl in Denver and they will join the ranks; and by April of next year, there will be 100 girls with a new world view and what for some is a very simple tool; the tool they'll need to take their travel dreams to the next level:  A passport

I think that's worth celebrating.  Don't you?!?!?!?!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Capri, Anyone?

Capri Passport Cover by Tepper Jackson Online

Capri harbour, taken from Anacapri
Source: Wiki
Don't hate me.  I'm not talking about the Italian island of Capri in the Tyrrhenian Sea; well...not this time anyway.  I'm talking about the 40 beautifully bright Capri passport covers that were graciously donated to The Passport Party Project by Tepper Jackson Online, manufacturers of travel & cosmetic bags, accessories, loungewear and baby.  *Applauding wildly*  You must, must, must check out Tepper Jackson's offerings here.  #kuh-yute

I have decided to use these bold and bright passport covers (soooooooo pretty) to entice the first 5 girls from each of the remaining Passport Parties to be the first within their group to get their respective passports.  It might just be the very thing that keeps the momentum alive and encourages the kids to encourage their parents to follow-through with the process to get a passport.  #crossingmyfingers

I found out about Tepper Jackson when I was surfing the Web looking for cute passport covers for a Got Passport? blog post I wrote and never forgot about how vibrant their covers were, so when I reached out and they said yes to participating in this initiative, it was like icing on the cake. Thanks again to Tepper Jackson for being a part of giving girls a world view; but this time, in style.




Monday, May 14, 2012

A Smiling Seed


Daizia looks happy and ready to roll!
#PassportPartyProject #Austin

As I gear up for The Passport Party Project in Denver and then TBEX this June, I can't help but think about how wonderful it is for me to be able to do what I love.  And even though posts on National Geographic Traveler and in the San Francisco Chronicle lend a great deal of credibility to this traveling global awareness initiative fully sponsored by Expedia®, it is this picture of Daizia holding her very first passport that floats my boat. 

Simply put, it is what I live for...planting seeds and being a small part of giving girls a world view.  It's my legacy, I suppose.  Oh, imagine all of the possibilities ahead...  

                  From a small seed

                                   a mighty trunk may grow...

~Aeschylus