Another Whirlwind Weekend

This weekend was also crazy busy!  This time we traveled to Oklahoma to visit my brother's family and celebrate my niece's first birthday.  Hard to believe she was born a year ago!

We arrived on Friday evening just in time to eat some dinner (pizza for them, Panera for me) and visit briefly before turning in.  In the morning I was up early for yoga at SALT.

I tried to visit this place with my sister-in-law earlier in the summer...but no one showed up to teach the class.  Hoping this wouldn't be a repeat experience, I ventured out.  I was the first one there, but the instructor was the second one there.  Score.

I didn't have much opportunity for photos, but I snatched this photo of the room.  This was a sliding door (cool!) and inside, the room was long and narrow.  It would have very comfortably accommodated 16 yogis - four rows of four.  It would have mildly comfortably accommodated 20 yogis.  It would have uncomfortably accommodated 25 yogis.  But as this was a sign-up-online-or-just-drop-in-if-you're-too-lazy-to-sign-up place, there were 32 people crammed into this room.  I was as far back in the corner as I could possibly get - so far so that when I swung my legs up I hit the posts in the back.

Aside from the discomfort of being so crunched for space, I enjoyed it very much.  They use radiant heat and no humidity (instead of big blowers and humidity, like I'm used to), so the temperature was very comfortable.  It was probably hovering between 87-90.  The dude in front of me was drenched before we even started.  Poor guy - he would not have lasted at home!  The workout itself was fun and different.  This lady really liked the eagle arms and we went through almost the entire warrior flow with our arms in eagle.  Fun!  She also did the chatturanga flows differently, which I kind of liked.  There were no resting poses, but at the end she gave us five or so minutes to do anything we felt we missed from the workout (I did the one and only inversion I can do - the shoulder stand), and then we rested.

I snapped this picture on the way out:

This is a commonly quoted passage from the New Testament.  Cool that it seemed to be their inspiration for the name of their studio.

I returned to baby decorating in full swing...and a rambunctious three-year-old who didn't quite understand why he couldn't get into everything.  So Mom and I packed up the kids and headed to the aquarium.

The line was stinking LONG! At least they had cool sculptures to play on.

Not too sure about those sting rays...more interested in finding sharks.

Hmm...they look kind of like sharks, but not quite...

There they are! These ones are sleeping, but there were plenty who were up and active! And he especially loved that we got to go into the tunnel!

And take a picture in the shark cage

And then we went back to the sting rays.  She wasn't particularly interested, but she posed for the picture, and that's really all I wanted.

And Gigi sprung the $3 for feeding the sting rays!

We had a great time and returned to a house looking fit for a one-year-old's birthday!

Gluten free cupcakes!

I didn't get any pictures of the actual party, but it was adorable and everyone had a great time!  Charlie cried when it was time to go, but Aunt Molly strategically reminded him that we would see them next week in Colorado!  That perked him up quite a bit!

It was a lovely weekend!