the canyon, the mirror and zumba

we look forward to the weekends so much because we get to spend a lot more time together. lance had a lot of late nights last week, and this week will be even more. (for instance, today he didn't have to go in to work until 11 a.m. but he won't return until after the sun comes up. not exactly sure what time. boo. but i am proud of what a hard worker he is - he puts in crazy hours.)

every weekend has been packed full of amazing memories since we've been married, and i love it. this saturday we went to providence canyon state park, which is about a 45 minute drive away from us and known as "georgia's little grand canyon."

the weather right now is PERFECT, so we are trying to do as many fun things as we can outside before it gets disgustingly humid for the summer.

i really am sitting on the ledge of an overlook at the canyon here, not photo-shopped in like it looks. i should probably take some pictures of us not hiking or hanging out at home so you don't get the impression i always look completely disheveled. i also do not wear black all the time. in fact i've started wearing more bright colors, because that's how southerners roll and i like it.

lance LOVES a good pun. any pun, really.

when we hiked to the bottom of the canyon it looked like it was going to be really sloppy, muddy, red georgia clay that we weren't sure if we wanted to walk through - but it was actually just a firm damp sand. phew.



hmm, already tired and our adventures had only just begun. ha. driving home from the hike i suggested we go pick up the floor length mirror i'd spotted on sale at a store. (i didn't buy it at first sight because i wanted to make sure lance liked it.)

lance loved it and thought it would probably fit in our car. it's about seven feet high and three feet wide, so lord knows it would fit in a truck or suv just fine, or maybe even a decent sized car. but not a dodge neon. 

i sincerely wish we had video to show you the process of us trying to fit this thing into the neon, because i was cracking up at our clown car antics.

we rolled the seats down and slid it through the trunk- not fitting. pushed the front seats all the way up ... and it was still sticking out the back. off with the cardboard protectors on the ends. closer, but still hanging out. "if we just had our bungee cords or some string to close the trunk ..." "what about my hair tie!" so mr. knot-tying-expert finagled the trunk shut with only a wee bit of the mirror sticking out.

 we could barely fit in the front seats and i laughed nearly the entire ten minute (usually only five but we had to take it slow) ride home.

to top off the adventure, while we were unloading the mirror to carry it inside to our apartment a woman was puking in the parking lot.

now at last, the mirror looks lovely in our living room. were it a video-recording mirror i would already have clips of lance doing lots of push-ups and me doing zumba moves in front of the mirror. we are goofy.

i only did zumba a few times in lancaster, but i've been getting into it here and going a few times a week. i am the ONLY white girl at zumba here. do you know what that's like? it is everyone suddenly being an instructor, trying to help you. and it is getting cheers from the rest of the people in the class when you finally start catching onto the routines. you feel silly being new at zumba in the first place, but among a group of all rhythmically inclined dancers the silly feeling is more than a feeling. sure, some white people can dance, but i am not one of them.

lance said i'm getting a lot better. but i was showing him this one move that i cannot get the hang of, and when i looked over he was practically not breathing he was laughing so hard. i mean i knew i looked ridiculous but i had no idea it was that bad! yikers.

here's to being goofy and trying new things anyway - because it's fun! and now i have a way to make lance laugh in an instant.