Tango!

We have been taking Tango lessons since November.. we continue to progress albeit slowly.
This weekend we attended a 3 day Tango workshop with Alicia Pons, an instructor from Buenos Aires, who is doing a tour in this country. Here is her website! Alicia Pons

Anyway we attended 2 Milongas, one on Friday night and the other on Saturday night. Milongas are social dances. We attended 2 days of workshops, 6 hours on Friday and 6 hours on Saturday! Anna's feet are exhausted from spending hours on the balls of her feet. Myron is exhausted from keeping a long chest and short leg and leading boleo's and gancho's which Anna sometimes follows.

Alicia continues to tell us that Tango is caminada or simple walking... But we remain neophytes..

Here the shoes rest from incredible workouts..

Tangueros and Milongueros
Anna and Myron

OBX in February

Hi All

This past weekend we went to OBX to do some purchasing for the beach house new season.
We needed to buy 2 new windows, a storm door, paint, new bathroom fixtures and tile. Oh and a new vacuum cleaner... a Dyson.
Anyway we went to Home Depot, Anna's favorite store in the world, and did the requisite purchasing and got to drive it back to the house in a TRUCK! Anna also loves to drive trucks! Sean and his friend Mark, will come down from Vermont in April and do all the work. They are tremendous construction workers.... fast and fabulous.

Anyway, after the purchasing, we made a fire in the fireplace, ate king crab and poached a neighbors hot tub.
On Sunday we walked 4.5 miles for an eclectic photo shoot which you can see in the flicker badge on this page or as a slide show here.
Eclectic slide show of photos
We simply had a wonderful time with warm spring like weather and sunshine.

See you soon
anna and myron

Skiing Vacation in Salt Lake City

Hi Everyone,

We had a glorious week of skiing at Snowbird, The Canyons, and Deer Valley Feb 2-Feb 9th
Paul, Sean and Liz, Jeff, Christopher and Keiran and the old folks, Myron and Anna, enjoyed a Bed and Breakfast for the entire week . Everyone flew in from parts east except for Paul and Jeff who live there!!
The B& B was tremendous. We had the entire place, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, kitchen and living room and hot tub... Breakfast was terrific and we were 20 minutes from Snowbird if the avalanches didn't happen. :-) It snowed 100 inches while we were there on top of a base of 300... Amazing.
Chris and Keiran, Liz and Sean snowboarded. Anna and Myron Skied, Jeff and Paul Telemarked.
The only mishap was that Anna broke her left thumb when she fell. Classic skier thumb injury. She is sporting a red cast for Valentine's Day
Pictures are coming soon!

Love you all
Anna and Myron

Yes it is true...

Anna and Myron are engaged to be married!

The old adage remains true:
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."

To celebrate, they uncorked the Opus One 1989; and drank it all; and...

December 2007 Acapulco Pix

Merry Christmas Everyone!

We finally got all the pictures uploaded to Flickr. CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO ALL OUR ACAPULCO PHOTOS You can view them from the link. Christmas shopping and traveling took some time! Anna went to Vermont to visit her family there. She had a white Christmas but delayed flights and lost luggage. But she was happy to see everyone including a few friends.

Myron and Anna are spending Christmas relaxing and eating.

Jeff's Haircut

Jeff, Anna's youngest son, came to stay for 2 days before heading up to Stowe, Vermont for 10 days during the holidays. We did the necessary shopping; boots, socks,etc. But the requisite haircut also occurred. The poor student can hardly afford to get his haircut and when his Mom offers to pay, not much really gets cut off as you can see from the before and after shots.

Anna heads up to VT to spend 2 days with Jeff and Sean and her parents and visit some old friends over Christmas, but she returns to work on the 26th to ready courses online for the new year. Paul remains alone over Christmas but has a new girlfriend!

MERRY CHRISTMAS
ANNA AND MYRON

Deep Sea Fishing and Birthday in Acapulco

We went to Acapulco Dec 2-9th for Michael's 60th birthday. Michael is Stephanie's husband. Stephanie is Myron's sister for all of you out there who don't know.
We had a blast with Michael, Stephanie and all of Michael's fishing buddies who also came out to celebrate.
The weather was great, the hotel superb and the fishing terrific. Anna caught a 25 pound Mahi Mahi and another 2 were caught by Karen and Angela. So the girls were awesome. We all ate them for dinner at a local restaurant. They were prepared 4 ways and the taxi driver and the Captain and his family joined us for dinner. The 3 Mahi Mahi fed around 20 people with plenty leftover for the taxi driver to take to his family.

Everything was simply amazing. However on one morning, Anna ate some Papaya that just didn't taste good. After the first bite, she mentioned it to Myron but took one more bite and then decided it wasn't good and didn't finish it. Within 5 minutes she started having a stomachache and with in 30 minutes after having increasing stomach pain violently vomited. She thought she was better but the pain returned with terrible sharp stomach spasms. After writhing in the bed for awhile and trying to throw up again, Myron convinced her to go to the doctor at the resort.
Bent over and in agony Anna went to the doc with Myron. His exam indicated she was food poisoned and required an IV of 3 medications: an antiinflammatory, antispasmotic and antibiotic.
Within minutes of the IV the pain was gone! Anna, the nurse, asked for the names of the drugs and only knew one of them. The other 2 were not FDA approved or available in the US. Oh well, this was Mexico and they worked. She has yet to grow a new ear or develop ESP. Because the food poisoned bacteria was unknown, she also had to have 7 days of oral Cipro. The doc suspected that it could have been Salmonella or E-coli so ......

Anyway not to let the problem affect her negatively, Anna got her bathing suit on and headed to the pool to relax for the rest of the day. She didn't feel like eating for about 36 hours but nibbled on bland stuff. She still went for a horseback ride on the beach anyway and was back to normal soon after.
We will attach more pix via flickr.
But here are some to get the preview.

Love
anna and myron