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the journey begins…
By heather | July 6, 2007
Today we left for a 10-day vacation. For so long I’ve been looking forward to this, that I’m not sure what I’ll do when we get back since the chunks of time taken up with vacation planning will be free.
First stop – Washington, DC to visit our friends Dick, Jeanine and their son Jake. Jake is almost 6 and we still have people who remember Jeanine as the one who was pregnant at our wedding. At that time, we didn’t have many friends with kids – ahh so young.
So anyway, DJ&J are getting ready to move. When they got assigned to DC it felt like we had forever to do things together and we have spent the last 2 years not seeing each other as much as we could have because we had all the time in the world. Even though they were packing and moving out, they were gracious enough to open their home to us to help us break up our trip. Jeanine likes to be organized and I have to say the house didn’t look near as chaotic as mine would have. Then again, some rooms in our house look like we just moved in and we’ve been there for 3 years.
Jeanine has recently gotten certified to teach Pilates, and bought her own reformer machine. So after a great dinner, including dessert, she hooked my up to the reformer and tried to teach me how to breathe using my abs. It was predicted that I would be so sore the next day that I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed, which wasn’t the case so either I’m in better shape than I thought, or more likely, was doing it wrong.
Pilates is definitely hard, and intricate, and should not be attemped with an instructor who isn’t as good as Jeanine. Jeanine, I promise I want to learn more about it, but I won’t try to teach it. We took pictures the next day, to commemorate moving on, and to compare them to the ones we took 5 years ago, when Jeanine was the first (of many) military friends to desert me by moving away.
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