Friday, July 20, 2007

Costa Rica!

hi girls!
sorry i'm so bad at keeping up with the blog :( i just returned from Costa Rica for a yoga retreat and wanted to share a little about the trip. i've always heard such great things about costa rica, so my expectations were high. bottom line - i was amazed. about a month before the trip i saw a flyer at my yoga studio "bodhi yoga" about the costa rica retreat. i'd been wanting to take a trip this summer, so i pulled the trigger. there were about 20 of us that met up at tierra de milagros http://www.tierrademilagros.com/. i learned to surf and cant wait till the next time i can practice. i repelled down 150 feet of waterfalls in the jungle and climed a strangling fig www.centralamerica.com/cr/gallery/photo5.htm 120 feet in the air with a climbing harness and jumped out into the canopy. my rope burns are just now healing. if any of you get the urge to go to costa rica, let me know, i'd love to get down there again sometime.
as for good books, i'm reading a couple and would highly recommend them both. "wind up bird chronicle" by haruki murakami and "tibetan book of living and dying" by sogul rinpoche. next on the list is "shantaram" by gregory david roberts (i heard from 2 folks in costa rica that it was their all time favorite book).
love you guys and miss you!
ct

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Weird Dogs




I ran across this story about an Arnold Schwarzenegger dog (actually a whippet) and thought it was hilarious. It prompted me to find of some photos I'd seen of the world's ugliest dogs.

Both of which surfaced the unsettling memory of Leffie's suggestion that someone have his "puppies".