If you're there for the river dyeing and noon parade, which actually happens this Saturday, you'll want to start your morning at Rock Bottom's Kegs and Eggs event. The microbrewery will serve a buffet packed with scrambled eggs, French toast, bacon, and, of course, homemade brews, from 9-11 in the morning, giving you plenty of time to get your fill before heading to the river, which turns green at 10:45 a.m. Cap off a long day spent outdoors with a gourmet dinner at Mrs. Murphy and Sons, which serves upscale Irish fare year-round: among its offerings are a fish and chips salad, shepherd's pie topped with buttermilk mashed potatoes, and whiskey marmalade barbecue ribs served with Guinness mac and cheese. On the big day, head to Frasca for dinner. This much-loved pizzeria and wine bar is a spot that unsurprisingly skews more Italian than Irish-most days of the year, but on March 17 it'll serve a wood-fired Guinness Pizza that features a Guinness crust topped with potatoes, béchamel, and white onions. End the night by grabbing a few pints of Harp a few blocks from the hotel at Celtic Crossings, a bar that's as Irish as they come.

With its bevy of enticing storefronts, Main Street is the obvious first stop on your Park City shopping adventure. Crosby Collection (No. 419) is a jewel box of Native American treasures. You'll find Navajo weavings, Pueblo pottery, and loads of turquoise. For cute clothes (ladies and babies only), stop in at Mary Jane's (No. 613), then satisfy your inner cowboy at Burns Saddlery (No. 363). For lunch, head off the beaten path to Park Avenue. This quaint, quiet road that runs parallel to Main Street is lined with adorable miner's homes that date back to the 1880s. At No. 703, the High West Distillery and Saloon is the perfect place to warm up with a hearty burger and a highball. The brand new restaurant, housed in a hundred-year-old garage, is the first whisky distillery to open in Utah since the 1870s. After lunch, satisfy your sweet tooth a few doors down at Sugar Buzz (No. 651). Just be sure to stock up on enough jelly beans to last through the rest of your stay at the luxurious St. Regis Deer Crest Resort. It's going to be hard luring you out again from this cozy retreat nestled among the high peaks of Utah's majestic Wasatch range. Although a glance out the window is all the incentive you'll need to get back out onto those impeccable Deer Valley slopes.

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Your first order of business in LA, after checking into the Westin Los Angeles Airport, should be to head to Cupcakes Couture in Manhattan Beach. The shop creates some of the fanciest cupcakes I've seen, including such treats as the "Sunday Mimosa," (pictured) a champagne sponge cake filled with orange curd and topped with citrus frosting and blood orange "caviar," and the "Little Miss Sunshine," a strawberry cake with strawberry jam, vanilla frosting and topped with a vanilla macaroon.

Sweet Revenge, a few blocks north of the Four Points by Sheraton SoHo-Village, knows its customers aren't kids: it offers wine and beer pairing suggestions for its cupcakes. Try pairing the decadent "Dirty" with a Peroni or another pale lager.

Up in Seattle, you can order online from Cupcake Royale and have a dozen delivered to the W Seattle, or have them waiting for you when you swing by the Capitol Hill location. Sadly, it's too late to get the "Deathcake Royale," but the chocolate mint gets high marks and is available all year 'round.

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A staple of Destin's historic inner harbor for 25 years, AJ's Seafood and Oyster Bar brings the outdoors in, with deck seating on two levels that give you a close-up view of the action: watching the town's fishing fleet haul in the day's fresh catch. But there's plenty of action happening at the oyster bar, where gems from the Apalachicola waters are shucked right before your eyes and served with homemade cocktail sauce. If raw is a little too adventurous for you, give the Oysters AJ a try - six jalapeno, bacon, and Monterey Jack-topped oysters, baked on the half shell.

Literally located steps from the hotel on the boardwalk on Okaloosa Island, the Fort Walton Beach location of the Crab Trap Seafood & Oyster Bar offers spectacular views of the sunset, assuming you can take your eyes off of what's on your plate. Start with oysters on the half shell and a rum-filled CrabTrap Punch before moving on to Bourbon Street Shrimp cooked in a spicy butter sauce.

Finally, serving only the best Apalachicola oysters, the Boathouse Oyster Bar is an award-winning local favorite. Oysters come raw, steamed, or for the very brave, as shooters. You can also try two baked versions: the Baked Action, topped with butter, bacon, onions, and mozzarella; or the SOB, a spicy mix of cocktail sauce, nacho chips, cheddar cheese, and jalapenos.

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After a stint in the Army, Guyton returned to his childhood neighborhood to find it in an astonishing state of devastation. So he started enlivening the vacant houses with bright colors, painting rainbow hued circles, and attaching whimsical scraps to the paint-chipped shingles and porch rails. Over the years, the project has met with lots of controversy, and a couple of the city's mayors have ordered the destruction of several neighborhood houses. But the handful still standing are certainly worth a gander. Take a stroll or a drive down Heidelberg Street and see "The Dotty-Wotty House," "The House that Makes Sense," "Numbers House," and "The House of Words." You might even catch site of Guyton himself, painting and nailing away among the dirty plush duckies and baby blue hubcaps.

In New York, the clear leader is Doughnut Plant. Made from scratch (even the jelly fillings) fresh daily in decadent flavors such as dulce de leche and crème brulée, a second location will be opening this spring a couple blocks from the Four Points by Sheraton Manhattan Chelsea. If bagels are more your thing, Brooklyn Bagel & Coffee Company has you covered.

San Francisco's Dynamo Donuts has flavors that'll really help groggy colleagues wake up: varieties include a chocolate donut dredged in chipotle sugar and a lemon-filled dusted with Sichuan spices. Ask the concierge at the St. Regis San Francisco to send someone to pick up from this Mission storefront. Closer to the hotel, Blue Bottle's French press coffee service will help make sure the jolt from the spicy donuts sticks.

Keep their eyes from glazing over in Chicago with an order of Glazed Donuts, available by catering or subscription(!) only. The flavors change weekly, and range from classic apple cider to bing cherry balsamic and maple-bacon-chocolate (pictured). Pair them with coffee from the Intelligentsia near Millennium Park, and you'll be the hippest meeting runner the Westin Michigan Avenue has ever seen.

A company called Classic Walks leads a guided tour of pivotal French Revolution sites, four days a week, from March through October. The two-hour excursion begins outside the Tour Moubourg metro stop, a lovely 20-minute stroll across the Seine from the elegant, Art Deco era hotel, Prince de Galles, Paris. Amicable and knowledgeable English-speaking guides lead the group to monumental attractions like Les Invalides. The former ammunition depot was looted by revolutionaries, who used the weapons to storm the Bastille on July 14, 1789, officially kicking off the French Revolution. Events like this, as well as major figures such as King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, are discussed as the tour winds its way through the streets of Paris, stopping at other important sites like the Tuileries, where the royal family were kept under house arrest, and the Conciergerie, a holding pen for hundreds of French aristocrats en route to the guillotine. Once you've got a clear picture of how this extraordinary era of French history went down, mull it over with a slice of cake at Le Procope, a 17th century restaurant where Robespierre once dined.

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