Moments D690: Dance, dance, dance!

Today the entire crew visiting Jamaica for my cousin's wedding joined in on a full day adventure with Chukka Tours.  The day started out with a rain storm.  It was fun to watch the storm cloud roll in, let loose upon us at breakfast and then pass through just as quickly as it came in.  We were thankful for the quick storm as we had all signed up for their catamaran cruise headed to Dunn's River to climb the falls.   There were over 20 of us.  It needed to be a good weather day and the universe was in agreement!

What a treat to enjoy a day with everyone.  It was a day filled with great moments, and today, I'm going to share a couple of them.  First, we cruised along and stopped for a snorkel.

After our snorkeling time (which was definitely dampened by the rain storm - the reef wasn't very clear!), we headed to Dunn's River Falls.

Walking up the falls wasn't much fun with the group as the tour guides originally had us all hand in hand, in hand, like a trail of kids.  It was like being on lock down when a world of excitement was just in front of you, teasing you for more action.  It didn't take long for EQ & I to split from the group and climb up the falls on our own terms.  What a treat that was.  What a ton of fun it was to play in the falls.

But truly, the best moment of the day was after lunch and on the boat ride back to the resort.  With rum punch in hand, we all rode the waves and sang and danced....and danced some more.  We all did!  All 20+ of us on the front of the catamaran.  With screams of fear (for some of our group fear motion like that!) mixed with screams of laughter we danced the afternoon away.

When we landed back at the resort, we continued to dance, sing, and laugh.  We managed to even catch some, actually a lot, of it on video!  How incredible to spend the day bonding with my family (and extended friends) and to be an adventurer with EQ.  

It was a day filled with dancing; dancing in the waves of the ocean, dancing in the river splashing up the falls and then dancing atop the catamaran.  Dance, dance dance!

Moments enjoying a day trip with the family.

Moments being extremely silly and loving life!

Moments D474: Mornings Dance Parties

Today is BFF's birthday.  We spent last night in, celebrating her special day early!  We ordered in TWO delicious pizzas (hello breakfast!), wine (white and a red we didn't touch), a sip (or three) of delightful high, HIGH shelf vodka and then onto the bourbon.  A few tears, many laughs and hugs later and before we knew it the clock rolled over to midnight.  BFF was serenaded promptly at the turn of the minute hand by both myself and EQ via Skype.  We crashed around 2am and we missed having our typical tipsy dance party as there were people sleeping already.  But that's just the back story.

This morning BFF was up and 'atter at 7am!  At first she told me to keep sleeping (I crashed on the couch) but she needed to make coffee (the special Hawaiian coffee!).  There was no way I was letting her get up on her own on her birthday!!  So I shook out the cobwebs from my brain, and rubbed the sleep from my eyes and sat up.

The early morning hours were much fun with BFF.  I watched as the texts, FB posts and IM's came in wishing her birthday love.  And before I knew it, we were doing what we do best....DANCE PARTY.  Just before 8 am in the morning, the stereo was turned up and her camping theme song played loud, loud, loud.   Yes!  We had our first dance party of her birthday day!   What a perfect way to start her birthday day!

BFF played DJ and we enjoyed a few songs in the early hours of the morning.  We ventured all over the genres.  It was a lot of fun!  We even revisited some ROOTS and LL Cool J.  We finished up the day with, of course, some BIG WRECK!

And one that you MUST MUST MUST SEE:  A brilliant cover of "Blurred Lines" with Roots, Jimmy Fallon & Robin Thicke.  ENJOY.  (see if you can find the banana!)

Moments setting up a brilliant birthday day!

Moments having a dance party with your BFF.

Moments D311: Dance off

Tonight was my baseball banquet. It’s been months since I’ve seen all of my team mates at one table. It was a merry event. Hugs, laughter, sharing of stories, food and drink. All around, it was great to see everyone and catch up on what’s been keeping them busy over the past 3-4 months.

And then, there’s the few of us that have connected a couple of times in between. There’s 6 of us (though we were missing one key player!). When the others started to slowly filter out of the pub, the 5 of us cozied in on the big empty table. More drinks, more laughter.

And then, the dancing. Oh sure, I danced, but that wasn’t the moment that stands out. The moment that most warmed my heart was watching two of my team mates try to out dance the other. Reggae style. To a karaoke styled Michael Jackson song. It. Was. HILARIOUS!

I haven’t laughed that hard in a long, long time.

This is why I love these guys so much. Our baseball team wasn’t amazing and we didn’t always win, but we ALWAYS had fun. We ALWAYS laughed. And now….we dance.

Moments with friends.

Moments getting silly with the music.

#moments #dancing #baseball #friends

Moments D277: DOCs & Soundgarden

Today was a slow start and not nearly as productive as I needed it to be (I’m sorry tomorrow, you are going to be a little more crammed now because of this!), but even so it was a good day and this evening ROCKED.

Literally!

My BFF and I went to see Soundgarden tonight at the Sound Academy. We were about to leave my place when she noted my footware and suggested that I go get my DOCs. Damn. I haven’t worn my DOCs in (ahem) over a decade. Hell, I thought to myself, why not. If not at a Soundgarden concert, when would I dust those maroon bad boys off? I smiled the entire time it took me to lace them up properly. The memories that flooded to me. Incredible really. I was 15 years younger all of a sudden!

It wasn’t long before we found ourselves in the Sound Academy. It’s a smaller venue and it was crammed with people tonight! I swear it was a sea of six-foot-something guys for I barely saw the stage for the entire concert! No matter, though as the SOUND at this venue is amazing and Soundgarden did not disappoint. Chris Cornell sounds incredible live as do his band mates. Such an incredible concert. Bravo.

So today’s moment, enjoying a blast from the past. Both my fun, well-worn, well-loved DOCs and one of my favourite bands from decades ago.

Easy to dance and sing up a storm with these guys!

Moments D204: Car Wash

Today’s moment is a silly one, but one I will share none-the-less.

I enjoyed my drive home post-volleyball singing my heart out to the radio. (In case you are curious, we split our matches. Won 1/Lost 1, but I had a lot of fun, played well and played hard and I was enjoying the energy high on the drive home.)

Close to home I stopped to get gas and decided last minute to take my Tink through the car wash. As the garage door opened to the car wash, one of my favourite P!nk songs came on The Truth About Love.

As I drove up to the spot to sit and let the car wash do it’s thing…I found myself totally into the song; totally seat dancing and singing along. It wasn’t long before I was throwing a bit of ‘tude into it too. And then, I realized that my tinted windows were saving me from the people outside the car wash. The angle was such that I had a couple (in a limo no less) looking into my wind shield! Oh yes. I had a wee giggle to myself and then I dug in a little deeper into the song.

Yes. I rocked it out. Right. To. The. End. And I loved every second of it.

Today’s smile getting caught dancing when you thought no one was around!

Moments alone.

Moments shared!

Moments - D43; Scarf Dancing, Barcelona Bags, and Random Flowers

Today's smile comes from complete randomness on my drive into work. Normally I wait until the end of the day to share the moment of the day, but I had two moments that brought smiles to me that I simply couldn't wait.

When I arrived into work and logged in, I had a lovely (digital) bouquet of peonies waiting for me from a dear friend. She knows I've had a couple of challenging days and even though she's just moved and has been busy she made time to reach out to me. Why have I not surrounded myself with people as glorious as this woman sooner? (Something to delve into perhaps in another type of blog!)

But, back to the randomness. As I drove through the Beach, I saw a lady walking a very cute pug with a black Barcelona bag, kinda like this one:

As I approached my office building, I saw another lady riding on a bike with the same bag. How random is that? How strange that I saw two people with the same unique bag in a 15 min drive. The pieces that had to align for that moment to occur astound me! What is the universe suggesting? Perhaps it's time to explore Barcelona? Hmmmmm.

The second bit of randomness was just before reaching my office building. There was a young girl, perhaps early teens, playing on the corner with two scarves. She was dancing and twirling and tossing her scarves. It was quite a beautiful moment. If only we could all remember to be so carefree.

Moments of love. Moments of alignment. Moments of beauty.

Yes, today I've already had many moments.