Back in North American

TT3 hoola hooping in Hayes Park, see the older gentleman who joined in :-)

Our trip to Australia was wonderful!! It was so nice to hang out with Sarah and Paul and their clan. We were lucky enough to catch Sarah on her days off the water and she was able to come out and play with us. We also had a nice visit with Travis and Lelia in Tasmania. We got to go crabbing with Rob Mengler! And made lots of new friends to go back and visit with the Australian Bike Friday Club. Margret Day has planted the seed and written the menu for starting the Canadian Bike Friday club stay tuned on that one!!

Our flights to San Francisco were pleasant and uneventful. We arrived in the morning and managed to stay up all day so the time/day change was a relatively easy transition. The week in San Francisco was spent in the warm glow of the Anusara Kula. Diana had classes with Sianna Sherman http://www.opentograce.com/ who I have been taking my Anusara Teacher Training with, this was TT 3 an amazing week with many of the same people who have been traveling along this journey with me.

Ian and I practice yoga every day at the Yoga Tree Hayes Studio with Darcy or Stacey or KK. On the weekend at Yoga Kula – studio’s to aspire to. Darren was in town for the weekend at Yoga Kula and MC Yogi was practicing with us too!!

Darren

Our friends Read and Arden were coincidentally in SF for a family holiday. We were able to have some visits with them. We are soooooo!!!! happy to be able to visit with Read since a few weeks ago he was caught in an avalanche in Colorado. He is getting around very well on crutches and his leg is mending well!!

Breakfast at the Squat and

Gobble with Read and Arden

While we were in San Francisco we also decided to fly back to the east coast instead of cycle to Vancouver and fly from there. There were lots of things we wanted to get done on the east coast still so why not give ourselves the time to do them without being rushed. So we managed to find relatively cheap flights with the usually nasty routeings of last minute flights Pittsburgh red eye, then to Ottawa and Ottawa to Charlottetown. Diana seems to have finally managed to learn how to sleep on a plane – not soundly or for really long but I did sleep some so I recovered quickly from the jet lag. It was pretty quiet in around the Pineau neighbourhood since John and Inez were holding the fort while everyone else was in the Dominican Republic at Kristen and Marshal’s wedding. Everyone came back with lovely happy stories and nice tans. From the photos it looks like it was a great event!

Last weekend we drove into Halifax for JR and Jenny’s wedding celebration. They ran off and eloped in January and we were honoured with their presence at our wedding so we were only too happy to be at their party! It was in the N Magazine at Citadel Hill. Ian had never been up there before so after the event we went for a wonder around the ramparts. It has always been a favourite place of mine and it was nice to be there again. After being a tourist in Australia for almost three months being a tourist in Halifax was kind of normal.

JR and Jenny's party

We went to the Dingle with Verity and Buddha – a place neither Ian nor I had been. I had been to the frog pond but not the walk from the tower to the Halifax Yachted Squadron which is very nice. We had been impressed with the stone work in Australia but Halifax has it share of impressive stone work too! It is fun to be a tourist at home.

We have been hanging out reorganizing our belongings here in PEI and planning what next. We are going to head to Ontario on the 29th or 30th and catch a workshop with Naime Jazzeny in Burlington then head up to Pembroke and look for a house then back to Toronto for a workshop with Christopher Wallis.

We will be back in PEI in May with a trip to NS in the mix. Then back to Ontario for the end of May and a White Water recert for Ian at MKC and the SPNHC and CAC conferences for Diana in Ottawa.
Then back east to try and paddle around PEI and visit folks until we head back for Ian's work in August.
Now this is all subject to change if Diana happens to get work with the New Zealand Antarctic Trust and need to go to Antarctica....

Till next thats all

Diana and Ian