Another Amazing Day

I have been down in the Keys for a full 2 weeks. Life is great. Mark and I are trying to get in shape and have dedicated our selves to P90X. P90x is a work out tape that can be done at home. We are now both addicted and quote, Tony, the instructor endlessly. My typical day starts with a morning walk with the dogs. Then a quality hour of P90X. Followed with breakfast and some relaxing activity (ex. napping/e-mailing/ reading, watching swim videos). Take the dogs to the park. Then Mark and have some lunch together and lpay with the dogs some more and then head to the pool. We start lessons at 2:45 and coach till 7. When we return home, Jess has a delicious meal cooked for us. In exchange for a meal all I have to do is clean up the dinner dishes. Not a bad trade. After our meal we all hang out and then we are all in bed by 9:30-10 o'clock. Not bad. Sometimes we throw in some variations on the day just to mix things up. Basically life is great. We all workout, relax, hang out with 3-13 yr olds, not too bad. One of the kids was ecstatic because he figured out that if he looked through his goggles he could see me blow bubbles from the bottom of the pool and wave all at the same time. He couldn't believe it.This also the same little kid that refused to put his head in the water and insisted that he couldn't hold his breath. Now he doesn't want to take his head out of the water. Coaching the little kids has been so rewarding. After two weeks of the learn to swim clinc we are finnally drawing some attention. We have parents approach mark and I about there young kids swimming everyday. We are making a big impact in the Key Largo and Islamorada communitys and slowly making our way up to homestead. South Florida watch out!

The Keys

I have been down here in the Keys for a little over a week and life is great so far. I am starting to settle in to daily schedule a change from the past 4 months where about every day brought a different city or state and bed. I have slept in the same bed for over tens days. A new record this year. I work Mon, Tue,Thur, Fri teaching 3-8 year old and then after my lessons end I help out with the 12-14 year olds for an hour and a half. Wednesday, my day off, is private lesson day and just help out with the older kids. Then I have Sat and Sun off. Because Mark has early morning and Jess starts her day early as well. I have fallen into there daily routine of bed between 9:30 and 10. and Mornings start as early as 6am. I started swimming some of the Masters practices here as well. They are headed down to a ocean water swim in Key West in a couple of weeks and so they are trying to persuade me to join them. We did a practice open water swim in the bay last week. Basically it was snorkeling with goggles on instead of a snorkel and there were no waves. I tried to explain to the other masters swimmers that in a real open water swim there would be tons of people, waves and no one should focus on the coral or fish in the water.
In an effort to get into better shape Mark and just started a new workout routine called P90X. We are on day 2 and both dying already. We will have to see how we do in a week. It does make it easier to have a work out buddy.
Mark and Jess have 2 amazing little dogs. Lola and Marley. They are so cute. I am either playing with the puppies, exercising or working. I am exhausted thinking about my schedule. I got to see my first Florida Lightning storm last night. It was a excellent one. The sky was fillled with lightning bolts and flashes, nature put on quite a show. I will try and post some new pictures soon. This weekend I think we are going to try and go to the Bird Sanctuary and then just stay out of tourist populated place this weekend. It is supposed to be a mess down here for the weekend.

Life in the Keys

I am going to start updating my blog again. I am in the Florida Keys till the end of June. New Posts comming soon!!!