Salsa Jam

Dancing has always fascinated me and I would watch from afar, I remember having Meringue and Street Latin classes in Uni with Lisa but all is forgotten ever since because we didn’t practice it afterwards. Recently a group organized salsa dancing classes and I registered. For some reason I was partnered up with a guy that was twice as tall as me (6’5’), it was hilarious. The class found it hard to concentrate because they were too busy laughing at us. These photos are priceless.

    

The dance classes went for an hour and we continued to practice our moves with people that regularly come to the place to dance. I got extremely hungry from all the dancing and for those that know me well, I eat a lot for someone my size and I had a whole heap of watermelon and pineapple. I left the used toothpicks on the table not knowing where the bin was and I stood next to the food table enjoying the atmosphere and there I see Brian using my used toothpicks to eat the food. Before I could say anything it was too late, I felt really bad and plucked up the courage (I think he used a few tooth picks by then) to tell him that the tooth picks he used was um…kinda of used by me already, poor thing. We laughed our heads off and so we tried to reenact the story. LOL.

 

Mountain Biking

I bought a mountain bike a few months ago and haven’t had the chance to ride it and so I joined a mountain biking group and finally headed out to Blanket Creek to ride. I rode the bike for the first time a few weeks ago around the neighbourhood and my butt was in pain for a week, it ached and it was hard to sit or sleep on my back. So I decided to buy a bigger seat with a lot of padding. I know that a lot of people laughed at me but as long as my butt is not bruised, I am happy. I rode on the easiest trial there was, it was flat and scenic, it got boring after a while so I might try the more advance trials next time. It’s a great sport because you sweat like crazy and it’s less impact on your joints.

I got a little cocky and wanted to push it a little and tried to climb a pretty large hump. I watched others ride really quickly to get over the hump and since they made it look really easy I wanted to try too. I rode as quickly as I could up the hump, but at the last minute I panicked and braked and of course flipped over backwards and fell to the ground. Due to a lack of the appropriate gear, my hands were scrapped and my whole body ached. 

   

Bypassers came by to help, trying hard not to laugh. I am not sure what was more hurt, my ego or my butt.

A company I deal with had some spare baseball tickets and asked me to join them, Allan (who works with me) and Matt came along as well. Matt and I met during a white water kayaking trip with the outdoors club that we are both part of. We had an amazing time watching Philly beat the Atlanta Braves. Matt was being his suave self and flirted with a couple of 70 year old ladies sitting in front of us, there was a lot of leg touching going on that night. There was a lot giggling and I was high on the sugar that was in my Southern sweet tea.