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Traveling OBYoga Water Bottle

The OBYoga Water Bottle (OBYWB) made its way to Cambodia with Lan Lan Chen (a yoga student and neighbor up the alley who stumbled across my business card while out walking in the neighborhood over a year ago).

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Above – On the grounds in front of the palace in Phnom Penh.

Below – On a boat on its way to see the Floating Village, also in Phnom Penh.

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And here, the OBYWB takes in the skyline at Stanley, Hong Kong.

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Face Painting

We stopped for face painting at the Zoo. The paint lasted all day & the kids loved it!

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The purple dragon fell asleep on the way home …

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Today – Nati’s with Pappa Bill.

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The Kids & friends

I stole this photo from Morgan’s Facebook page. As cute as they are, the bunnies are not staying …

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Maya making her list and checking it twice. We’ll all find out if she’s naughty or nice …

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Robb & Alo meet up with MMA great, Cyborg Santos, at Ortegas yesterday …

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And a little knee therapy to make the knees feel better …

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The Zoo Wednesday

Wednesday was a really good day for the Zoo. It was overcast and cool, and there were hardly any people there.

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I’ll save the rest for next time.

I’m still not feeling well. In fact, I feel pretty bad today. Need more rest!

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Waiting room

It’s quiet now after the morning rush of people dropping off their colonoscopy victims have left. Lots of people who don’t know how annoying it is to everyone else when they don’t turn their phones on mute at the doctor’s office. At least the tv isn’t on. Lucky us… we get to be here early because Bruce needs antibiotics first because of his alien body part.

I have my audiobook, Stephen King’s “Mr. Mercedes” which is a KILLER book (pun intended). I have 7 hours and 1 minute remaining (about half way through) of this detective mystery complete with SK’s twisted humor and mental twists, and I’m on an edge of my seat, can’t stop listening audiobook thrill ride. The reader, Will Patton, is the same reader of another book I listened to recently, “The Son” (highly recommend). He’s got the perfect voice for this type of narration and is doing a wonderful job of expressing the essence of the book.

It looks like I’ll be hanging out here in this waiting room until about 11:30-noonish while Bruce gets “scoped.” He survived the prep and, most importantly the night, so this is the easy part.

The wifi here is slow, so uploading the videos I took of Maya yesterday probably won’t make it to YouTube before I’m done with this post. Looks like they’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

But I did catch a couple moments in photos I can share. Throughout the 1 hour class, the instructor will gather the kids before moving to a different station. It takes a while before all the kids gather.

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And it finally leads to this …

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I really wish I could do that right here, right now in this waiting room! For reals … I’ve thought about it.

After gymnastics, Pappa always stops and gets Maya a fresh organic juice. Maya wasn’t sharing until she drank all she wanted.

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Later in the day Hogan decided to do a little climbing up the stairs. Here’s where I found him …

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Entertainment from the colonoscopy center … A poor old man had to come back looking for his dentures!!

Check in tomorrow for some gymnastics videos starring the one and only Number One Granddaughter!

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Lighting the Way

I’m in LA this weekend for a workshop and 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Iyengar Institute in LA, and my teacher, Gloria Goldberg, was presented the “Lighting the Way” award, which is a very high honor in the Iyengar Yoga community. Somehow keeping this a surprise for the past 6 weeks or so was a success even though everyone except Gloria knew about it.

On my drive to LA yesterday, I finished a 20-hour audiobook “The Emperor of All Maladies“. It’s a book on the history of cancer, its treatments, subjects and victims. If Evan hadn’t been diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer, I probably wouldn’t have given this book a second thought. But the book details which give an overview of the book sounded interesting enough for me to give it a shot. It turned out to be quite informative about many different types of cancer, case studies, oncological breakthroughs (and failures), among other topics. This book is well written and easy to understand for the ignorant lay person that I am.

It looks like Alo is doing a good job of taking over my chores while I’m gone …

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Whew! It makes me tired just looking at these pictures. It’s no wonder why he’s hungry for “more!”

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Don’t worry, it’s not all work. There’s a little time for play.

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Today – a morning workshop session followed by the drive home and the beginning of a new book. I’ve decided to delve into the twisted mind of Stephen King once again with “Mr. Mercedes“.

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