September 1, 2005

• gotta hate September.  Ugh.  Even though I don't have to work until the 6th, I feel school started already.  You can smell it in the air.  Its getting a little darker.  Summer's over. .

  
  

  Had my annual retreat to good ole Pine Bush, NY.  Pics and story to come later.

  
  

  Here are the rest of the Canada pics and the activities we did:

  
  

  My mom would always go "social dancing" for fun.  For those "younger" people (including myself, its not like the Electric Slide or the Moonwalk. Its old people music like the Waltz, Cha-Cha, Swing, etc.  Anyways I got a lot of experience in that since they were 4 aunts and my mom and only me and my uncle as dance partners.  The ratio was always 5:2.  It was quite a learning experience to say the least!  (Sorry for the small pics but when I enlarge them, it gets fuzzy.)

  
  

       
  So my III-eee (the one in purple) was trying to teach me most of these dances.  I kept repeating "1..2..3..4.."
       
  Once I kinda got the hang of it, we were all partying like its 1999...or 2005...whatever, you know what I mean!
       
  me and III-eee                     Me and Ma Dukes              Me and Ma Dukes II           That's the Twist right thurr!
       
  Me and Christy                   Me and my Grandma          Grandma, part Deux             Here's a 'lil flava for ya!
  

  
  

  
    (look how serious I look)
  Though, it was not my typical dancing, it was fun to learn.  But those dance halls are serious man.  I was with my grandmother doing the Waltz and when we accidently bumped into someone, there were grilling us.  Hardcore.  Apparently you're supposed to dance in a circle.  Who knew? .  But it was nice that everone got down and danced.  For my grandmother to do that was especially nice!
  
  Then of course we had to do a little bit of what Chinese families do best....KARAOKE!
        adults
      kids bored
  
     so I took over...
     with my uncle...
  
  Then we did what Chinese families do best as well...MAHJONG!
   okay, so I got bored.
  How about Jenga Mahjong?
      

  
  

  Last but not least, a challenge was bestowed by the "kids" to the "adults" to see who would win in a game of bowling.  Well apparently, my cousin David said he could bowl a 200 no problem so we gave the adults an extra person.  Long story short, my mom ( a very bad bowler) beat David in both games.  I guess the writing was on the wall when his first 3 frames were gutterballs. .  Yeah, we lost both games by a wide margin.  Sheesh.

  
  

     
  
   me and my "200" bowler, David.
   my righty but "lefty"bowler mom.
   Winners and Losers
  
  Good Times! .

  
  

  
   
  
  
  Next year in CALI baby.

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