Tazim, Author at Celebrate Life's Adventures!

11 Exciting Festivals to Enjoy and Celebrate Winter in Canada

November 28, 2019 by Tazim Leave a Comment

When does winter start in Canada? Pretty much as soon as summer ends. And winter often doesn’t end until May or June in much of the country. With such a long winter, why spend your time huddled inside getting cabin fever? Sure, I like bundling up with a mug of something warm and a good book as much as the next person, but getting outside is not only good for one’s health and wellbeing, it can also be a lot of fun.

I’ve recently gotten into snowshoeing in order to be able to get outside more often this winter and plan on taking at least one skiing lesson – just to try it out. Another (perhaps less active) way to enjoy and celebrate winter is to head out to one of the many winter festivals happening across the country. So, don’t just stay inside and watch the snowfall and wonder when spring will arrive – enjoy and celebrate winter in Canada!

Here is a list of 11 festivals in order of the date they occur:

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Have More Joy and Challenge your Imagination at Heritage Park, Calgary

September 21, 2019 by Tazim Leave a Comment

Getting outside and experiencing a heritage village is way more fun than reading about history in a textbook, am I right? Heritage Park in Calgary is a step back in time in Canada’s largest living history museum.

Experience the joy of discovering how people lived way back when as you explore 1860 all the way to 1950. Unlike other museums where you walk through an exhibit and look at objects behind glass, Heritage Park is interactive, with costumed interpreters, historic buildings to peak into and wander around in, and working antiques to touch, smell, taste, hear and see.

The Park is set-up in four main areas:

Heritage Town Square: This is located before the admission gates, which means it is free to enjoy. There are a few restaurants and cafes, little shops with all kinds of fun things to check out and a 2-acre nature park to enjoy. You can also step inside to Gasoline Alley Museum, home to one of the world’s largest public collections of antique trucks, cars and gas pumps from the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s.
The 1900s Living Historical Village: This main area is open between May and October. The village is home to many of the exhibits including an antique midway with lots of rides, steam train, a working printing press and blacksmith shop, ice cream parlour, a very popular bakery, and costumed interpreters.
The 1880s Pre-Railway Settlement: Also open May to October, experience the homes, businesses, and lifestyles of the first new settlers to Canada’s West.
1860s Fur Trading Fort and First Nations Encampment: Also open May to October. First Nations, Métis, explorers, settlers, and traders, as well as others who travelled through Western Canada, are represented in this area of the park.

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Vancouver Staycation Guide

June 8, 2019 by Tazim Leave a Comment

Let’s face it – Vancouver is the best place to be during the summer months. A Vancouver staycation is a fun way to explore the city and surrounding areas while keeping the budget down.

While I fully support wanting to escape the city to go to far-flung locals or simply wanting to get some of that vitamin D that we all want and need by going to sunny places like Mexico, I think staying in and near Vancouver during summer is a great idea.

You can fill your summer calendar with fun, cheap or free activities to do every day of the week, if you’d like – or you could be more intentional with your time by designing your summer.

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Vegan Food Tips and Tours

January 20, 2019 by Tazim Leave a Comment

One of my favourite things about travelling is having delicious food (and food-based memories). I often think about the fancy vegan food I had in New York, the street corn in Mexico City, the Italian food in Bangkok and Kerala (India), the Ethiopian food in Rome, and the (out of this world) coffee and chocolate in Guatemala.

Vegan Travel tips

Before I leave on a trip (road trip or otherwise), I do a bit of research on what vegan food options are available.

When it comes to eating out during my travels, I generally do a combination of these:

-seek out strictly vegan or vegetarian restaurants

-have grocery store lunches (hummus, pita bread, and a salad)

-get food from a vegan-friendly restaurant or café

Or, if I’m really hungry and pressed for time, I’ll get a sandwich from Subway or another sandwich shop.

I also buy dried snacks to take with me for my trip—granola bars, dried fruits, nuts, and chocolate bars. [Read more…]

A Fresh Start Is Like Jumping Out Of An Airplane

October 11, 2018 by Tazim Leave a Comment

If you’re beating yourself up for not keeping up with your new year’s goals, this may be music to your ears: you can have a fresh start anytime of the year! If you’ve made a promise to yourself that you’ll go for a run twice a week, but you haven’t yet—start on Sunday, or now. There are a few times a year when I give myself permission to really, thoroughly review my progress and majorly change things up. These times are: January, June (my birthday month), and September (back-to-school). Spring is also a great time of year to have a fresh start.

In many ways, this blog is like a fresh start. I’ve been blogging for over 6 years now (!!!) and over the years (of my life and in my blogging career) I’ve really been able to figure out what’s most important to me. Celebrate Life’s Adventures focuses on my most favourite topics ever. Okay, there’s no category for love—which is such an important topic to me—but there will be plenty of self-love in the Self-Care category, and mentions of my favourite people (the ones I love) throughout all my posts. If you’re interested in what I have to say about the topics I’ll be blogging about here, check out my ABOUT PAGE.

Starting on a new adventure can be both exciting and scary at the same time—like jumping out of an airplane. I should know, because I’ve done so before.

No one told me that the first time you skydive, you aren’t supposed to go solo. Apparently the norm is to skydive with an instructor and then go solo. I had no idea. Skydiving wasn’t something that had been on my ‘bucket list’ for a long time, or something that I’d been wanting to do for a while. The idea of going skydiving just came up with a few of my friends from work, and it seemed like it could be fun, so I agreed to go ahead with it. I was young (18) and hadn’t really had any adventures in my life. That adventure was the first of many, both small and large. Sometimes, I feel like I have a boring life—but it only takes a second to look back and think about all the adventurous things that I’ve done. Each time, because of risks involved, it is a little bit exciting and scary. A Fresh Start Is Like Jumping Out Of An Airplane-2

This fresh start is my newest arena

If you checked out my about page (above), you’d notice how excited I am about the new site and all the great content I can share with you! At the same time, I recognize that something new is always a risk.

“An arena is any place in our lives where we would like to try on a new way of being that’s a little bit bolder and a little bit more honest and a little bit more authentic.” – Brené Brown

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