Wednesday - Blackbelt Training

Well, I am down to the last few days I have left to enjoy this beautiful city of Tempe, AZ!!

I love it here but I am definitely ready to relieve my house/cat sitter and get back home to see my babies!!!!

Here is Wednesday's adventures....we rented our bikes...this was my little gem...it is an off road one speed as it was the last one left....it was "old school" dirt riding!!! :-)




This is the whole group (minus Jeff C. he had to stay behind and work and me of course - I was taking the picture)...

This is the group with me included (green shirt)...Reza (our instructor took the picture)

This is a view from the top of a peak....

After riding around a few little mountains, we moved ot biking around the Tempe Town Lake...

Then the whole class went here for drinks and dinner - courtesy of Reza and SSA - YUM!!!!!

The next few are picks of the brewery part...pretty neat!!!!

Two of my classmates - Shawn from Pgh and Richard from California...

This was my dinner selection - NOT a healthy night!!!

And apparently the beer batter is made with this kind of beer (Kilt Lifter)...

Looks yummy hugh?!?!??!?!??!?

This is a class picture...all of us plus one classmates wife....left to right (Karen and Michael, Jeff T., Me, Dan, Shawn standing, Richard, Jeff C and finally Reza)

WHAT A FINE LOOKING CREW!!!

I am actually gonna miss these people!!!! Whata fun group of people!!!

Day Three - Tempe Class - Blackbelt Training

Hi all!!! I hope everyone is doing well, I am trying hard to keep up with blogs between all the activities and classes here in Tempe, AZ. I am so paranoid about my sweet babies that I am checking in daily with my house/cat sitter and I think she is sick of hearing from me! HA! However, she tells me that Angelica is doing great so far...I have the best sitter on the planet!!

This is the experiment we did in class today to learn about DOE or Design of Experiment....this class is awesome!! We have the greatest instructor ever in Reza - he is awesome and makes it soooooo easy to understand! This is a picture of Alka-seltzer versus generic...fun fun fun!!!


I have got to say right now that I am sooooo glad that I post to facebook!!! I posted the following two photos while I was kayaking and just realized that even though I took about fifty pictures while riding they are all gone from my phone!!!!!!!!! I have no idea what happened!!! So, the only copy I have are the two I posted to facebook...so, here they are.....

This is te rental place!! Awesome!!! Great people...great equipment - LOVE THEM!!! Only 15 dollars for an hour of kayaking (I was dying to try the Stand Up Paddle Board but was too chicken as I would have ended up spending most of my time IN the lake - HA!!!!!)



And another view from my kayak of Tempe....floating in the middle of the Tempe Town Lake....awesome experience!!

Hope everyone is well!!! I am going to run and read YOUR blogs now!!! Happy Tuesday!! :-)