Saturday, April 18, 2015

Bina's QiGong and TaiChi Student Party

Bina has a party for her QiGong and TaiChi students a couple times a year. This party was at our home and had about 30 people attend. Great fun!

People were hanging out both inside and out.
I Performed honshirabe and asuma jishi for Bina's and her students.

Also one of Bina's students has done belly dancing for many years; gave us a wonderful performance.

 

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Saturday the 11th of April, Bakery Trip

I drove up to New York and Rockland Bakery today. Bina wants some of their very good bread, so my suitcase will have wonderful smelling bread in it!
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Friday, April 10, 2015

Friday the 10th of April New Jersey trip into Manhattan

A special trip for me when I come back to NJ, PA and NY is a day trip into Manhattan. I drove to Dover NJ from the Poconos where I've been staying and got the train to NYC. Elisabeth, a neighbor of ours from Arizona was in the city with her husband and we planned to do lunch when I came into the city.
^ This is the Dover NJ train station ^
Elisabeth is a long time NYC resident before coming to AZ, so I asked her to pick a place for lunch. We had lunch in a restaurant called "Robert" that is located on the 9th floor of the museum os arts and design. The restaurant overlooks Clombus circle and the south end of Central Park. Lunch was wonderful!
After lunch we walked along the west side of Central Park for awhile.
Elisabeth wanted to see a foreign film so after our walk we went to see the movie. It was a movie called "the salt of the earth". A very moving movie!
For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.
After the movie I took the subway down to China town and walked about for awhile before heading home.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Wednesday April 8th of my trip to New Jersey

I got to see my niece Theresa and her daughter Chloe this morning.
This evening I went to my friend Peggy's house for supper. When I got there my cousin Peter who is a farrier was there putting new shoes on her two horses. Peggy's husband and family were there and a friend of us both, Bonnie came by also. it was a lovely evening chatting about old times and catching up on what's new.


Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Tuesday April 7th, Family trip to New Jersey Harrison and Ben

On the ride down to pick up my grandsons, I passed this apple orchard took this and a few more photos of the trees waiting to bloom.
I took my grandsons to a virtual firing range. Their web site is http://rtsponline.com . They have a digital simulator that has many different shooting scenes. We did the shooting for about an hour, Harrison and Ben loved it.
We had lunch afterwards at The Randolph dinner in Ledgewood. A really great dinner and both the boys left happy and with full stomachs.

Monday, April 6, 2015

Monday the 6th of April seeing Naomi and kids

I helped Naomi drop off a rental car and pick up her car that had been worked on. After she got her car back we went out for dinner at a decent Italian restaurant. After dinner we went to a sports place that has batting cages.

Landon and Meadow took turns batting and then Naomi and I had a chance to bat. It's been a very long t Mie since a swong I baseball bat.

^ Meadow ^
^ Landon ^
^ Naomi ^

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Saturday April 4th 2015, family trip to New Jersey day one

My first day here my three daughters and a bunch of my grandkids all went to the ringling brothers and barnum and bailey circus in Allentown PA.
It was a great show and fun to watch the kids get into it.
Even elephants!