Eat, Pray, Love: The Drinking Game For Travel Girls During Lockdown

Hold on to your floppy hats and grab your favorite drink, it’s time for the Eat, Pray, Love drinking game designed just for our travel girls currently staying at home during lockdown.

If you’re heartbroken over having a trip cancelled due to the pandemic, you are not alone! Instead of wandering the cobblestone streets of Europe, travelers are lazily snacking by the fridge. We’ve traded our swimsuits at the beach for sweatpants on the couch. And instead of excursions, we are binge watching Netflix.

While we do the important and necessary work of staying home, there is no shortage of movies to fuel your wanderlust and get you daydreaming about travel again. And there is no travel movie as iconic as Eat, Pray, Love. If you haven’t read the book about a woman who leaves her husband and embarks on a healing journey to Italy, India & Indonesia, you should. But while you’re killing time in the pandemic lockdown, you probably also have time to watch the movie. And while you’re at it, we’ve put together a little Eat, Pray, Love drinking game to help pass the time. Pour yourself a drink and let’s get started!

The Rules

Drink anytime Liz eats

Whether it’s pasta, gelato or pizza- this rule will have you polishing off your first drink in no time.

Drink anytime Liz does a voiceover

With plenty of flashbacks and internal narrative, you’ll be busy sippin’ your drink anytime her voice plays over a scene to describe her inner feelings… any voiceover at all!

Finish your drink when Liz arrives in a country you’ve traveled

Have you traveled to Italy? Finish your drink when Liz first touches down. India? Gulp, gulp. Indonesia? Bottoms up!

Pass out 2 drinks to another player anytime Liz goes to a tourist attraction you’ve visited

You’ll see plenty of famous landmarks and tourist hotspots. This list includes but is not limited to the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Bali rice fields and more!

Drink anytime Liz prays

From the heartfelt first prayer in her home to the ashram in India. Let’s included mediating in this as well. Any spiritual practice. If Liz prays or meditates- you drink!

Drink anytime Liz speaks in another language

Pay attention! Anytime Liz greets another character or thanks them in a language other than English, take a drink. When Liz practices her Italian in the bathtub or practices her pronunciation …that counts as well!

Drink anytime Liz mentions another country (and drink twice if you’ve been there!)

Italy, Aruba, India, Indonesia… the list goes on… If she mentions it, you drink! If you’ve been there, you drink twice.

Screenshot for your Eat, Pray, Love drinking game at home during lockdown:

Where can you watch Eat, Pray, Love?

Eat, Pray, Love isn’t available on Netflix at the moment. But you can get it on Amazon, Youtube & Itunes.

Have fun drinking with Liz around the world! Let me know if you think I missed any rules. Stay home & stay safe!

Originally shared on MyLifesAMovie.com

More related to coronavirus:

• CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: TRAVELING HOME FROM SPAIN DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC
• BACKYARD CAMPING- MY WAY OF TRAVELING DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
• THESE HILARIOUS RECREATIONS WILL PROVE YOU REALLY CAN “TRAVEL” DURING LOCKDOWN

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Backyard Camping- My Way of Traveling During the Coronavirus Pandemic

After a mad rush to leave Spain and make it back to Minnesota during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, I found myself in a 2 week quarantine in my childhood home.

Read: CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: TRAVELING HOME FROM SPAIN DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC

As someone who spent the first part of 2020 hiking in Spain, snorkeling in Hawaii, living out of a campervan in Australia and doing a month long road trip across America, I was perfectly content to nestle up and do more “normal” activities like binge-watch a series on Netflix or sleep in on a Saturday. But as we entered the third…then the fourth week of quarantine, I was itching to get back to my usual lifestyle. Which involves a little more time in nature and a lot more adventuring.

Don’t get me wrong, the time spent at home has been a surprise blessing. It’s been a very long time since I’ve had such uninterrupted time at home or plenty of free time to work on my blog and catch up with friends. (Only over Facetime, of course.)

But I was ready to get back outside and having another adventure while still abiding by #stayathome

Quarantine Camping

So I decided I’d find new ways of traveling in my home state. That meant making s’mores over an open fire in the backyard. Driving to lookout points nearby. Going for a walk in the woods. Even setting up “van life” in my car!

Now I realize not everyone has the luxury of having a backyard. (For those of my friends and family quarantined in small city apartments- I feel you! I wish there was something more I could do.) But here in Minnesota, backyards are wonderfully common. So it’s a good state to have to self-isolate in. And despite the snow on the ground in March, things have finally started to thaw around here as we tiptoed into April.

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Sunrise and Sunsets

When I’m traveling, I always make a point to go watch the sunrise and sunset over an epic location. Some of my happiest travel memories have included watching the sunrise over the Pyramids of Egypt, the Spanish Steps in Rome or from a mountaintop in South Africa. But when I think back to all the years I’ve lived in Minnesota, I couldn’t remember ever getting out of bed to go watch the sunrise. I must have at some point. But I truly can’t recall even once.

Well if I’ve learned anything from two years of being on the road, it’s that there is endless joy in seeing a place with a fresh set of eyes- full of wonder and appreciation! It’s easy when we are traveling to do this, of course. It’s harder to look with wonder upon a place we have been a thousand times. But that’s how I want to live my life. Whether I’m exploring an exotic tropical island or simply tucked safely at home in quarantine. There is no shortage of wonder to be found Even right here, in little old Minnesota.

Traveling has become more of a state of being for me. Appreciating and going through even the simplest moments of life as if they were a dreamy trip in a far off place.

While I look forward to being able to travel again, we can always seek out beauty, adventure and excitement anywhere in the world. No matter where we are or what we’re doing.

I mean, just look at this sunset! Totally free and no plane ticket needed. Thank you Minnesota.

Getting outside

While the parks are no longer open for camping, Minnesota still has countless parks in every corner of the state which are perfectly legal to visit so long as you practice social distancing. Go for a walk, kayak on the lake or take a picnic. If you have kids, the playgrounds won’t be open. But other than that, the parks are available for you to go enjoy. Rather than binge watching yet another TV show, go get some fresh air

Quarantined In A Blizzard

But earlier didn’t I say the ground began to thaw as we headed into April? Well, there were a few days of unsolicited heavy snow that dumped down on us Minnesotans. After a brief (but total) white out, we are back to sunshine and spring as usual. Although wasn’t the recent spring blizzard beautiful?

Self isolating on the water

There truly is no better place to self isolate than the land of 10,000 lakes. (But did you know Minnesota is actually home to more than 10k? It’s a whopping 11,842 lakes!) While kayak rental shops aren’t open, there are many affordable kayak options on Amazon. This kayak is less than $70. Best of all- it’s inflatable which allows for easy storage. And you don’t need a truck to transport it to and from a nearby lake!

Backyard Camping Gear

Set up camp in the backyard, take the kayak on the lake or go hang a hammock in the woods. There is no shortage of ways you can travel your own backyard during the pandemic.

Yeti Mug

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Hammock

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Sorel Boots

My favorite water proof boots!

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Tent

This tent sleeps two people and is fantastic quality for the price!

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Inflatable Kayak

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Stay safe and healthy!

And if you you need a laugh- check out these hilarious recreations of my travel photos.

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So imagine my surprise when I logged into Instagram and saw I had been tagged in a post entirely recreating my travel photos. And quite accurately might I add! These hilarious renditions were captured in a single afternoon- proving you too can travel the world with just a bit of creativity.

Scroll below to get some travel inspo during these troubling times. And I can’t wait to see where you “travel” whilst in sweat pants lounging on your couch on god-only-knows- what day of lockdown!

Enjoy, I hope you get a good laugh out of these like I did

Egypt

Africa

Mexico

Indonesia

Sweden

Stay safe and healthy during these times!

Read: BACKYARD CAMPING- MY WAY OF TRAVELING DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC & CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: TRAVELING HOME FROM SPAIN DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC

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