I found some cool belly dancing videos on youtube tonight, and since Debbie wants to be able to find them again I'll put them here!
The first ones are of Rindala doing a really amazing routine. It takes 3 videos to see the whole thing (for some amazing back bend moves see the 3rd one) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0SFcIfdz7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ubj_hjLdVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqbv_gFkDTQ
Lebanese belly dance has a bit of a reputation for being experimentative... and a little out there at times.
Here's another lovely Lebanese dancer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBncb92rz70
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Saturday, April 14, 2007
International Travel
1. Go to google.com
2. Click on Maps
3. Click on "Get directions"
4. From New York
5. To Paris
6. Read line # 23.
2. Click on Maps
3. Click on "Get directions"
4. From New York
5. To Paris
6. Read line # 23.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Easter Weekend Doings
I was fortunate enough to have a 4-day weekend for Easter, so I took advantage of the situation for an outing to Edmonton.
On Friday I drove there with Debbie's friend Brian. He provided interesting conversation and I drove. We stopped in Grande Prairie for an hour: Starbucks, unsuccessful hunt for a geocache, then grabbed some grub for the road. Next stop was in Whitecourt for gas. That was the second full serve Petrocan station I've found since I got my discount credit card for that company. First one was earlier in the morning in Dawson Creek. (While the guy pumped my gas and washed my windows, I checked the oil... Guess I wanted to show off I wasn't dependent on full service!) Anyway, the next stop was Edmonton to find Brian's hotel downtown. No problems there. Then I drove off to Fort Saskatchewan to the hotel where Jay and I stayed. The GPS receiver sent me down the first street that would get me to Fort Sask from Edmonton. It wasn't the way I had intended to go, but I got to see an LRT station so if Jay and I stay in the same place in June we'll be able to avoid crazy parking for The Police concert. Anyway, I made it to the hotel without problem. Jay wasn't in town yet, so I went off to buy a few things to put in the fridge in our suite. Then when I came back he called me on my cell phone. I met him over at his sister's apartment and we visited with her and his nephews for a while as they decorated Easter eggs. Then we returned to the hotel room and . . . watched TV . . . all night . . . honest . . .
The next morning we 'rested' some more. We spent pretty much the rest of the day at West Edmonton Mall. It was the first time I had been there in about 21 years. Man, I still can't believe I spent nearly 9 hours there! Jay and I wandered around, I did a little shopping, we watched kids at the petting zoo, we watched the sea lion show, I did a little more shopping, we went to Booster Juice, then we met up with Brandi and Michael to go mini-golfing. It was fun to hang out with them again! After the game we went to their place and played on their Wii for a while. It was cool to play video games standing up and moving around! Eventually it got late and we went back to the hotel where I crashed pretty much immediately.
On Sunday we slept in a little, ate breakfast in the lobby, cuddled a bit, checked out then we went to Sobey's to visit Jay's sister and I bought a few groceries. We had a prolonged good-bye in the parking lot and then I was off on the road again. I left Fort Sask around noon and made it to Dawson Creek about 10 hours later. It is not a 10 hour drive, but I decided to geocache on the way! I found 6 caches, drove by 2 others without trying because of deep snow, and couldn't find 3 more. Those 3 were in Grande Prairie, making me 1/5 tries at caching there. It just doesn't seem to be my town. One of the caches I found was an infamous lampost skirt cache (although technically this was a flagpole skirt cache). Some posts have a part around the base that can slide up, so people have been known to place small caches inside of them. People who have been geocaching a long time tend to hate these, feeling like people who placed the cache there have no imagination because they've seen so many. It was okay for me though... only my first one. I guess they tend to be all over larger urban centres in the States. Anyway, I made it home safe and tired.
Monday I did basically nothing but hang out on the computer logging my geocache finds and planning for more geocaching! No wait, I watched a movie too!
On Friday I drove there with Debbie's friend Brian. He provided interesting conversation and I drove. We stopped in Grande Prairie for an hour: Starbucks, unsuccessful hunt for a geocache, then grabbed some grub for the road. Next stop was in Whitecourt for gas. That was the second full serve Petrocan station I've found since I got my discount credit card for that company. First one was earlier in the morning in Dawson Creek. (While the guy pumped my gas and washed my windows, I checked the oil... Guess I wanted to show off I wasn't dependent on full service!) Anyway, the next stop was Edmonton to find Brian's hotel downtown. No problems there. Then I drove off to Fort Saskatchewan to the hotel where Jay and I stayed. The GPS receiver sent me down the first street that would get me to Fort Sask from Edmonton. It wasn't the way I had intended to go, but I got to see an LRT station so if Jay and I stay in the same place in June we'll be able to avoid crazy parking for The Police concert. Anyway, I made it to the hotel without problem. Jay wasn't in town yet, so I went off to buy a few things to put in the fridge in our suite. Then when I came back he called me on my cell phone. I met him over at his sister's apartment and we visited with her and his nephews for a while as they decorated Easter eggs. Then we returned to the hotel room and . . . watched TV . . . all night . . . honest . . .
The next morning we 'rested' some more. We spent pretty much the rest of the day at West Edmonton Mall. It was the first time I had been there in about 21 years. Man, I still can't believe I spent nearly 9 hours there! Jay and I wandered around, I did a little shopping, we watched kids at the petting zoo, we watched the sea lion show, I did a little more shopping, we went to Booster Juice, then we met up with Brandi and Michael to go mini-golfing. It was fun to hang out with them again! After the game we went to their place and played on their Wii for a while. It was cool to play video games standing up and moving around! Eventually it got late and we went back to the hotel where I crashed pretty much immediately.
On Sunday we slept in a little, ate breakfast in the lobby, cuddled a bit, checked out then we went to Sobey's to visit Jay's sister and I bought a few groceries. We had a prolonged good-bye in the parking lot and then I was off on the road again. I left Fort Sask around noon and made it to Dawson Creek about 10 hours later. It is not a 10 hour drive, but I decided to geocache on the way! I found 6 caches, drove by 2 others without trying because of deep snow, and couldn't find 3 more. Those 3 were in Grande Prairie, making me 1/5 tries at caching there. It just doesn't seem to be my town. One of the caches I found was an infamous lampost skirt cache (although technically this was a flagpole skirt cache). Some posts have a part around the base that can slide up, so people have been known to place small caches inside of them. People who have been geocaching a long time tend to hate these, feeling like people who placed the cache there have no imagination because they've seen so many. It was okay for me though... only my first one. I guess they tend to be all over larger urban centres in the States. Anyway, I made it home safe and tired.
Monday I did basically nothing but hang out on the computer logging my geocache finds and planning for more geocaching! No wait, I watched a movie too!
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