Arizona

Some more travels! Last month was to the Grand Canyon and Sedona.

The Fuzz Speech

Finally!

Inauguration Day

While I am at work, here with TV's in the background, I am still overwhelmed and speechless! The emotions that are spilling over; I can hardly imagine what this feels like for African Americans who have lived through segregation, who have heard the stories from their grandparents of slavery. 

All I can do is send a blessing to all. Be blessed and have compassion this day and all days after. 

Japanese Friendship Garden, San Diego CA

Japanese Friendship Garden

Driving down to San Diego, CA

Laguna Beach, CA

No more driving PLEASE!

Whew, I feel as though I drove a million miles today. We went to Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and ended at Venice Beach. Again, tons of photo's but can't upload them. :(

I wish there was more time to get away from the typical tourist crap and explore some National Parks and such but we head home tomorrow. At this point, I hate to say it but there is no desire to come back here. Honestly, I have never seen so many homeless folks and drunks staggering about then I have here in CA and that comes from someone who spends a fair amount of time in NYC!

The large homes you see on the hills are fabulous, the beach front properties amazing. The roads are in bad shape (and I thought PA had the worse roads) and folks that live here.... SLOW down! WOW! I thought I was a fast driver. 

We stayed at Ayres Hotel and I have no complaints. Perhaps one, the shampoo and soap have much to be desired. But the room is spacious and quiet. Only some traffic noise from the highway right outside. Free wi-fi and a nice continental breakfast including hot food. The room has a microwave and a refrigerator which is handy for our left overs. Most the time I can not sleep well at hotels but from the first night, no problem! 

I also got a 10 minute massage from some Asian fellow with a stand at Venice Beach and I gotta say, it was good. I had such tension in my neck from the plane and stress of everything. To bad he can't be there when I need him tomorrow! 

Promises to post some photo's when I get home, back to Marley who is missed so badly. 

Quick Pic

We went to Balboa Park in San Diego. On the way back we went to Laguna Beach. (My traveling partner loves the show) I took countless photo's and will post the best ones later as I forgot the cord to upload the photo's onto my computer. But here is one I took with my phone.

Earthquake!

Here I am in Los Angeles CA on a mini-vacation and I get word that there was an earthquake back home! 

LINK

We were just discussing and reading the hotel manual that tells you what to do in the event of an earthquake here in CA. It states there are thousands of those little shakers here every year, luckily most the time no damage. 

The one in Lancaster and York didn't produce any damage either, thank goodness.

We are off today to San Diego. WooHoo! 

Happy Holiday!

Orkut Wishes.com

May you be stress-free and happy! Here's hoping that you enjoy time with friends and family and forget about the materialism that accompanies Christmas. 

Take a moment to donate to a charity. 

Above all, be thankful for all we have and love everyone around you!

Peace!

Marley loves the park!

Here he is resting after play. Eventually I hope to get a good photo of play time.

Here you can see just how large this off-leash area is. This is one of 3 at Canine Meadows, located in John Rudy Park in York, Pa.

Hope to see you there!

Mindless entertainment

Two websites that I have come across that are interesting.

Give this one some time to load..... totally worth it.

HEMA

This one you can't let the cat out.

CAT

ENJOY!!!!!

Fresh new look!

I have searched and tried a million, give or take, templates to update the look of my blog. Blogger sure has slim pickings so I had to look for outside help.

Links to my favorite blogs will be added ASAP!

What do you all think?

And I got it!

So I ordered the Haiku bag from Zappo and they have fast shipping. I ordered Friday morning and got it Monday morning. This bag is so functional I can't wait to take another day trip to NYC to carry it around. It is being used now but I have found its to big for my daily use.

Luckily my next trip will be in 3 weeks when I go for a Qi Gong lesson! How exciting!

The bag I searched for in NYC

I Like:

To- Go Bag Calligraphy
by Haiku by Sharon Eisenhauer

The train....update.

4 hours and 45 minutes on the train. 30 minutes of sitting because of storm damage. A train ride that takes less then 3 hours. Had I not just had acupuncture, I imagine I would have been fit to be tied. 

But some photo's:

This was taken early evening. We were near Philadelphia and trust me, it should have been nice and bright out. This was a pretty fierce storm.

My daughter goofing with the camera settings.

Train tests my patience!

This is one heck of a day. We got up early to catch the 8:30 am train to NYC. The traffic to the train station was bad and I really think I got the last parking spot there. Big sigh!

We head to an outdoors store because I wanted one particular bag (more about the bag later). We go out of the way, find the place but no Haiku bag!!! :(

Off to get acupuncture and no doubt that was great!

We figured we would take an early train back home. Honestly, we missed Marley. I pay extra to change the reservation and we are set to go. Next thing, all trains are suspended. SIGH! Our train was to leave at 5:10. It left at 6:15. Penn Station was a madhouse! Now the train is running slow and we will probably get back at the original time! And I paid extra for this bull!!!

Everything happens for a reason, right?? LOL

The Massage room

Here is a photo of the room I work out of. It is a calming environment.

Come to York, PA and experience it sometime! :)

Strawberry Fields.....

Forever...