More pix of OBXtreme adventures

The weather is OBXceptional!

Paul and Jeff and Ryan and Evan and Ben are here and we anxiously await Sean and Liz and Mark and Dooray and Bob. Myron and I are good at barbecuing and making margaritas!!! Oh yea and stocking the fridge for this hungry bunch. The weather is terrific, the water warm and the drinks cold. Heat lightening at night is beautiful and the moon is almost full. Myron tried the ocean kayak and did pretty well for a senior citizen. He had the senior citizen discount with the boys pushing him up and over the surf. He didn't make it back to shore without dumping it in the surf and banging his elbow... margaritas have an anesthetizing effect!!!
Horseshoes with other revelers on the beach, frisbee and swimming find us older folk in bed by 10:00. But the young men come in after sunrise!!! I think they sleep a little on the beach!!

This pix is Myron on the Kayak before the dump.

A & M

More OBXstacy

These images are from top to bottom : Ben and Evan with rainbow on the deck of the beach house. The "Bronze God Jeff". Paul the firefighter, fisbee king. Paul riding the surf. The guys on the buried Trampoline.

OBXcstacy

We are having a wonderful time at the beach house in OBX NC...the Outer Banks for those not accustomed to the native language.
The weather is great and so far Paul, Jeff and friends Ben and Evan have arrived. Ryan is due in tomorrow and brother Sean and friends Liz, Mark and Bob are due in on Saturday.
Margarita time is always at 3pm after kayaking, swimming and girl watching...
Mom Anna is the resident cook and finds that cooking for all these guys is quite a feat of magic. So far so good! Soft shell crabs, tuna steaks, rib eyes, lasagna and tonkatsu chicken have been successful.... one night dining on dungeness crab and king crab was also a highlight.
Myron and Anna are also successfully managing to go to the local club and workout to keep up the good work initiated by there personal trainer David.
Here is Anna on the kayak.

On to Chapel Hill and UNC

After much angst, trepidation, and downright fear... I took the plunge.
I am taking the position of Learning Management System Administrator at UNC Chapel Hill.
Even though the position offers less money than what I am making now, I will be in a nice area, and have an interesting job with opportunities for advancement at a prestigious hospital center.
The cost of living is much less and we are looking at apartments right now. A 2 bedroom 2 bath beautiful apartment with pool, tennis courts, fitness center and w/d in the apartment is around 850.00 per month!!! Oh and did I tell you I could walk to work and I am only 3 hours from my beach house!!!
So duh a no brainer to be sure.
Myron and I are apt shopping this weekend and the hope is to move on Aug 31.

Love ya all
anna and myron

Yoga for Myron?

Yes. We went to a Yoga class on Saturday morning.

You may ask why. So I will tell you.

We started a physical fitness program with a personal trainer last week. Our goals were 3...lose weight, lose inches and get more fit. We both run and exercise quite regularly. We even watch our caloric intake and our carb of choice is a glass of wine, but age is becoming absolutely determined to keep the pounds on so we decided to try out the personal trainer route for one month and see if we see a difference.

So...3 days a week at 7:30am we work out for 90 minutes with Dave...our holistic, spiritual, natural food consuming personal trainer. He informs us that fitness is a combination of flexibility, endurance and strength. OK we get it.... so we begin..
He has us doing these core exercises that has us shaking, sweating and grunting on mats. He has Myron balancing on funky wobbly things with his eyes closed! Ha... you should see this...it could cause a grown man to cry. He has us doing nasty planks and other core exercises that look so easy and hurt so bad.
But that isn't even the worst... He has us eating Manna bread which is sprouted grains with spelt and flax and hemp and such... Myron puts cream cheese on his and I put butter on mine!
We have moved on to red wine versus white.

But Dave suggested that we do Yoga to help our flexibility, especially Myron... he has difficulty stretching and feeling one with the earth!

So you should have seen us doing: downward dog, little cobra, sun salutations, the dolphin, camel, tree pose, happy baby, and "f****ing" tired!!! But the best was meditation after the exhausting impossible stretches... Myron was ONE with the EARTH!!! He had an outer body experience and I was hard pressed not to laugh out loud...

Keep posted for more ramblings of our rebirth!!

Anna and Myron