Back in the USSR

Hello everyone,

the blog is back up and running.

the film festival was enjoyable over the final weekend in NYC great company and catching up with great friends...got to spend time with Dean's daughter Alexa, (pictured below)...just couldn't resist posting a picture of the little cutie, she is funny and quite the stairs climber.

went on the Staten island ferry for the first time, a super cool free ride taking one from the bowels of lower Manhattan to the beautiful trash landscape that is Staten island....seriously the only side of the island I was privy to was very much a ghetto eye sore.

Nevertheless the trip was nice, it was also a quick jaunt to the Newark International Airport..... then it was 11 hours sitting in a plane.....next to a Russian Gymnist/Coach.

We tried to communicate a few times, it was difficult. My Russian being absolutely non-existent and her English like a stereotypical cold war movie depicting horrible Russian bad guys....or just the new Indiana Jones film.

Anyways.....decent selection of flicks....Spiderwick chronicles (I didn't hear much about this movie but it was pretty fricking cool, who knew tomato sauce killed goblins?) Fools Gold....blah blah....Penelope (cute movie with a good tandem of stars I really dig Christina Ricci and it had the Hollywood heartthrob from Atonement whatever his name is....but nice movie, about a girl born horribly disfigured like a grotesque pig, actually she looks better as the pig, but that is my own fetish I have to pleasure to deal with)

Watched a little House, which I think was the same episodes from the last time I flew....blah blah blah

Started reading the Life of Pi which seems like a pretty good read, I'm enjoying some witty arguments on the state of Zoo's which offers a different perspective.


Back to work, full schedule...of course two cancellations....one no show....

but most of the patients I know~ so it is less of a transition...the clinic looks better, she has cleared out the main room a bit, we hope to do some classes in the gym during our early or later hours, I want to teach one on the magnificent foam roller which is essentially like turning your body into a dough ball and rolling it out with the rolling pin - the foam roller.

The weather is so comfortable and breezy with lots of sunshine, the scooter- damned if it didn't just start right up and give me a little jolt of ebullience during a merry ride through the back streets of Alewa Hts...sounding like an angry bee of course.

The water looks beautiful, the mountains and the valleys are very green....

June 24th I'm going into the shark cage....

bye, I'll add a few picutures of the Kauaii adventure Next