To celebrate the release, there is a collaboration with Roadtrippers to create an awesome "guide page" with road trip ideas inspired by the film, country music, and Hank Williams' life! Roadtrippers accounts are free, and you can access the guide page here!
This guide page inspired by THE LAST RIDE has tons of fun options for road trips across America with your friends or family this summer! Options include:
"The Last Ride" - the route depicted in the movie, coupled with landmarks from Hank Williams' life
Famous Music Venues
Honky Tonks
Historic Recording Studio Tour
Hank Williams Distillery/Brewery Tour
Top Tennessee Tourists Attractions
Country Music Festivals
RT66 Roadside Icons
Roadtrip Classics
Roadtrippers is a simple and intuitive road trip planner that helps you discover, plan and book the best places and experiences along your way, curated by local experts and travel writers. Eccentric roadside attractions, breathtaking natural wonders, or mouthwatering foodie feasts. Whatever your interests, you’ll discover your America on Roadtrippers.
Disclosure: All information provided to me by ThinkJam. No compsensation has been received. Informational post only.
Six Flags Great America is pleased to present the premiere of igNIGHT – Grand Finale, a mesmerizing and immersive nighttime spectacle bursting with energy, vivid colors, brilliant visual effects, lively performances, fascinating imagery, and pure imagination.
The groundbreaking new high-tech show — the most advanced show in the park’s 37-year history! — plays on all your senses, taking you on a wonderfully wild journey to a beautiful never-before-seen world. Watch in wonder as igNIGHT illuminates the dark night, magically bringing to life a phenomenal bright and vibrant multimedia universe filled with music, singing, dancing, laser lighting, and pyrotechnics right before your very eyes. Guest interaction along with advanced audio, enhanced video projection, and special effects round out the brand new show that is sure to stun and delight audiences of all ages.
igNIGHT – Grand Finale will premiere in summer 2013 and will take place in the evenings right before the park closes because there’s no better way to end an adrenaline-filled day at Six Flags Great America than with a big bang!
igNIGHT Grand Finale has a unique storyline that is going to begin with Frederick and Elizabeth who meet and are separated by the Great Chicago fire. In present day Lizzie and Freddy meet and go on an “adventure” not knowing that they are both connected to the Great Chicago Fire through their great great grandparents.
Fun Facts
The show will include video mapping using Six HD projectors. This allows us to project any different image on to our stage/set.
The show will feature a multilevel stage that has been specifically designed for optimum clarity and compatibility with our show.
igNIGHT Grand Finale will feature an interactive element by using a handheld glow stick that will light up in sync with the show.
Features songs from artists like Frank Sinatra, Selena Gomez, Kanye West, One Direction, and many more.
The experience will begin at 8pm in Hometown Square and include a DJ, costumed characters, a quartet and more. The preshow event will work up to the show starting at park close each night.
The production will involve ___ people.
The stage built exclusively for our park will be a multilevel stage spanning 75ft wide and 50ft tall.
Each and every show will include pyrotechnics, lasers, video mapping and fireworks!
Where: Hometown Square When: June 15th- August 11th How long; 30 Minutes
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Disclosure: all information provided by Six Flags Great America. I was given complementary passes to enjoy the igNIGHT performance. I was not compensenated in any other manner.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
I am always looking for ways to keep my children entertained and engaged over the summer months. As a homeschooling mom, I am able to sneak in some school work over the summer and my children really don't know that they are still schooling and learning. I heard about a wonderful program that I am going to sneak in to our summer days. MSI(that's the Museum of Science of Industry for you non-Chicago folk) is offering up an exciting science-fused solution to help kids stay engaged during summer vacation.
The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago is offering up a fun and free online science program — Summer Brain Games — to keep kids learning this summer and prevent the “summer brain drain.” Summer Brain Games is a great way to combat this by keeping kids thinking and learning over the summer in a fun and engaging way!
If your children are anything like mine, they crave science. I'm not kidding here either. My son begs me to "do experiments" with him. He's going to be a scientist some day and cure some wicked disease so I have no issues whipping up whatever his little mind can think up. My girls are just as excited about science, but in a total artsy way. Growing up, I was not the least bit interested in science and found it utterly boring. However, now that I am an adult and responsible for teaching my children this fundamental {core} and exciting subject, I'm just as interested and engaged as they are. Who knew science could be so fun!
I am so excited to participate in MSI's Summer Brain Games with my kids and can't wait to see what they send up each week!
Each week MSI will send out an email to those who are signed up {if you haven't signed up yet, go NOW! www.msichicago.org/summerbrain. When you register for this fun and free program, you’ll get pass to come to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for free this summer!} Each online kit will feature an experiment or science challenge that can easily be performed at home with my children. These online kits are created for children of all ages and will need a bit of adult supervision. The experiments mostly feature items that you can find around your home and it is a great way for families to spend some quality time together and for our children to get outdoors.
I find the MSI's Summer Brain Games to be a win-win situation for me all around. My girls will be having fun, my son's brain is filled to the brim with science and this homeschooling momma is delighted to be teaching and keeping my learning over these "summer brain" drain months.
The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is offering a fun and free online science program called Summer Brain Games. The eight-week program lasts from June 17, 2013-August 12, 2013 and features a weekly experiment or science challenge that can easily be performed at home with kids of all ages.
Visit msichicago.org/summerbrain now to register for Summer Brain Games and download your free Summer Brain Games kit. As an added bonus, registering automatically gets you a pass to come to the Museum for free this summer.
I am giving away a Family Four Pack (value $76.00), which includes tickets to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. (Tickets are valid through the end of 2013.) Please enter below.
Disclosure: I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Cascade. I received a product sample to facilitate my review and a promotional item as a thank you for participating.
I'm sitting here listening to the humming noise of my dishwasher and happy that I remembered to start it. I usually forget and end up having to wash my dinner dishes because my dishwasher is full up from breakfast and lunch dishes.
I'm even a tad bit happier because I know my dishes will be clean this time around. I have an old dishwasher (purchased in 2006) and it doesn't work the greatest. I sent my husband out in 2006 to purchase a new dishwasher as our other one had just died. I had just had a baby and had no interest in picking a new dishwasher, so I sent the husband. That was my first mistake. He literally walked into a home improvement store and looked for the cheapest model and brought it home. It has not worked well from the beginning. I have always had to pre-rinse and recently have had to pre-wash as well as I think this current dishwasher is on the way out the door.
On top of this issue, we have hard water as my husband refuses to get a water softener. I have been pouring vinegar in the bottom of my dishwasher once a month and this does help alleviate any issues I may have with calcium buildup. I am partial to the Cascade brand and have been for a couple of decades. However, I never paid much attention to the box I am pulling off the shelf month after month. I simply grab the same box because that is what my grandmother always used.
I was recently sent the New Cascade Platinum Pacs to try out and I have to say I am pleasantly surprised. I did what was suggested and did not pre-wash or pre-rinse my dishes. Guess what? The dishes that I removed from my old dishwasher were clean. Guess who doesn't need a new dishwasher? Guess whose husband said I told you so? Guess who will no longer be doubling washing dishes? Guess who may even give this chore over to her children now? Guess who is not going to be afraid to try new products any longer?
If you are like me and my children, food needs to look pleasing to eat. Top Chef judge and editor of Food+Wine magazine, Gail Simmons, is well aware of this. She has recently partnered with Cascade to discuss why presentation is just as important as preparation.
• From prep to plating: It’s more than just a great-‐tasting recipe, but also perfect presentation. Sparkling dishes, shining flat ware and spot-‐free glasses truly let you put your best food forward with culinary creations that pop!
• Gail recommends impressing with a Platinum Presentation: “The easiest recipes pop with unexpected, gourmet presentations. Drizzle bright sauces on sparkling white plates or layer desserts in crystal-‐clean glassware. Keep your presentation sparkling with Cascade Platinum, which keeps dishes perfect for anytime entertaining and impromptu guests.”
Want to learn more about Cascade’s partnership with Gail Simmons? Visit Cascade Facebook page and Cascade YouTube page.
Cascade #MyPlatinum Contest Details:
The Cascade “My Platinum” contest is a four week Instagram contest encouraging fans to upload photos related to the weekly contest themes. Show off how sparkly Cascade makes all your pots, pan and plates!
• Visit the contest landing page for information on how to enter and submit images.
• Each week, two contestants will be selected to receive a brand new Whirlpool dishwasher. Additionally, one lucky grand prize winner will receive a Platinum kitchen makeover!
To win, users have to both register and upload a photo with the #MyPlatinum hashtag and tag @MyCascade. Participants that have not registered will be disqualified from winning.
Each week will have a 6-day entry period where Instagram users can enter the contest with their #MyPlatinum Photo. Cascade will choose two weekly winners and one final grand prize winner after the entry period has ended. Please be sure to include both the #MyPlatinum hashtag and tag @MyCascade in your entries to the contest!
• Week 1: My Platinum Plate (Entry Period: 6/3-‐6/9) Show us your best dish styled from the sparkling plate up!
• Week 2: My Platinum Bite (Entry Period: 6/10-‐6/16) Show us your best bite and most creative use of sparkling silverware!
• Week 3: My Platinum Clink (Entry: 6/17-‐6/23) Show us how you serve up creative concoctions in sparkling glasses. Cheers!
• Week 4: My Platinum Table (Entry Period: 6/24-‐6/30) Show us your sparkling tablescape for your most special celebrations!
June 17, 2013 
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
