Last night's class was most interesting. We started out with an obstacle/endurance/?? course. I don't like some of the things we did but I did them anyway. We had 5 cones set out in a box pattern--one on each corner, one in the middle. Started out running from one cone down the side, then run *backwards* to the middle, forwards to the next cone, backwards up the long side, forwards to the middle again (but don't go AROUND it, just go up TO it!), then backwards to the beginning. I don't run fast backwards, so I got caught up in the crowd.
The next step of the obstacle course was to do a bear crawl to the one cone, flip around ("on the fly"), crab walk to the middle, bear crawl to the next one and so forth. Then we had to lunge, then an "alligator walk" and "Inch worm" and finally bunny hops and hopping on one leg. It was an interesting series of exercises. The black belt who ran this warm up told all of us that we should be able to change from a bear crawl to a crab walk without stopping. He was going to make us practice it at the end of the evening, but we got out of that because Mr. B came in and took over the class.
Mrs. T and I worked with the S brothers on our Pyung Ahn forms. It was good to review and refresh our memories on the older forms. I truly miss practicing forms. I feel like I need a lot of work to refine the forms I know.
I did have fun before I headed out to class yesterday. I talked to my son and asked him if he really was enjoying classes. He says yes, so he's staying in. My daughter is another story. She earned her green belt, but she's telling me she's "disinterested". I'm afraid she'll just stop trying. Need to talk to Sa Bu Nim and see what he says. Her heart just isn't in it and I don't want her to feel like she's being forced. Tony and I need to talk about it with her and tell her WHY she should stay in (self esteem, focus) and see if she's interested in it at all. If not, we need to talk to Sa Bu Nim about getting her off the contract. At least one of the kids enjoys it, so that's fine.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
New day, new week
We went to Shreveport yesterday to meet some friends. It was fun! We were under cloudy skies until just before we crossed the border into Louisiana. Then the sun came out. We met our friends at what used to be the Isle of Capri but has since been changed to "Diamond Jacks". Interesting place. Very loud, very crowded, but fun. B and I played the one armed bandits (which, incidentally, still have one arm but are now computerized!) while our hubbies played table games upstairs. We looked for the penny slots. That was interesting, to say the least. I did fairly well...had an amount given to me by my hubby and I managed to double it. I wasn't complaining at all.
When we got tired of the games, we went to dinner, then found our way to another casino, the Horseshoe. Very ritzy, very big, also noisy. I think they all are! Anyway, when we walked in, we saw a BMW in the hotel lobby. They were having a drawing for it at 10:00, so we registered for it. Of course, you had to be present to win. We left early, so we knew we weren't going to win. LOL!!
That casino wasn't friendly to any of us--we lost money, so we left. On our way out, we talked about the fact that the casinos are all on boats. There's some weird law that Louisiana has that says their casinos have to be off land. Don't know why, but that's it. When we walked into Diamond Jacks, we walked up a ramp and then onto the boat itself. You could feel it move a little when we got in there. Of course, the boats are permanently docked and aren't anything more than for show. It's how they get around the 'can't be on on land' thing.
Coming home, we saw a lot of lightning in the sky to the southwest. We first thought it was just heat lightning, but it kept getting more and more pronounced. We didn't have any way to check radar, so we winged it and just watched the sky. At about Marshall, the skies simply opened up and a LOT of torrential rain poured out. There was a lot of hail and it was too hard to see for the combination of lightning, rain and hail. There wasn't a lot we could do--we went from driving 85 miles an hour down to 30. Anyone on the highway last night was taking cover under whatever overpasses they could find. We got off the road and found ourselves under a garage awning...sat there for about 30 minutes, just talking, until we thought we'd be able to make it out again. The rain was still pelting the cars, but it wasn't as bad as it had been. We didn't get up to 80 again until just before we got to Dallas.
When we got to our friends' house (their kids, who are teenagers, watched number one son. Number one daughter was at HER friend's house last night!), it was 11:00. Number one son was STILL awake although the assorted parents were exhausted! We packed him up (had to collect video games, memory card and book and clean up his mess--games and game systems all over the living room floor!) and came on home. Got in around midnight. The storm decided to follow us and found us around 1-2 am. Good thing we weren't driving!! I know I didn't like that at all! I'm glad I wasn't behind the wheel.
We're going to have to plan on going out there again sometime soon. I truly enjoyed myself.
When we got tired of the games, we went to dinner, then found our way to another casino, the Horseshoe. Very ritzy, very big, also noisy. I think they all are! Anyway, when we walked in, we saw a BMW in the hotel lobby. They were having a drawing for it at 10:00, so we registered for it. Of course, you had to be present to win. We left early, so we knew we weren't going to win. LOL!!
That casino wasn't friendly to any of us--we lost money, so we left. On our way out, we talked about the fact that the casinos are all on boats. There's some weird law that Louisiana has that says their casinos have to be off land. Don't know why, but that's it. When we walked into Diamond Jacks, we walked up a ramp and then onto the boat itself. You could feel it move a little when we got in there. Of course, the boats are permanently docked and aren't anything more than for show. It's how they get around the 'can't be on on land' thing.
Coming home, we saw a lot of lightning in the sky to the southwest. We first thought it was just heat lightning, but it kept getting more and more pronounced. We didn't have any way to check radar, so we winged it and just watched the sky. At about Marshall, the skies simply opened up and a LOT of torrential rain poured out. There was a lot of hail and it was too hard to see for the combination of lightning, rain and hail. There wasn't a lot we could do--we went from driving 85 miles an hour down to 30. Anyone on the highway last night was taking cover under whatever overpasses they could find. We got off the road and found ourselves under a garage awning...sat there for about 30 minutes, just talking, until we thought we'd be able to make it out again. The rain was still pelting the cars, but it wasn't as bad as it had been. We didn't get up to 80 again until just before we got to Dallas.
When we got to our friends' house (their kids, who are teenagers, watched number one son. Number one daughter was at HER friend's house last night!), it was 11:00. Number one son was STILL awake although the assorted parents were exhausted! We packed him up (had to collect video games, memory card and book and clean up his mess--games and game systems all over the living room floor!) and came on home. Got in around midnight. The storm decided to follow us and found us around 1-2 am. Good thing we weren't driving!! I know I didn't like that at all! I'm glad I wasn't behind the wheel.
We're going to have to plan on going out there again sometime soon. I truly enjoyed myself.
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