Sunday, January 25, 2009

Just For Fun

Photos by Josh

Last night, instead of resting up for the big 10K that we ran today, Josh and I went to meet Danielle and friends at a place called "Teu Lloc Galeria." We were not sorry to have made this choice. This restaurant/bar/contemporary art gallery attracts a hip clientele for its eclectic music and great atmosphere. Out of the back patio entered the band Zaiko Circo, winding between tables, through each room of the restaurant, and out onto the stage. The group included a trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, flute, snare drum, baritone, violin, and bass drum player. And three people on stilts dancing around the tables. They were all dressed in vagabond-type costumes and had painted faces or masks. They played original scores until the end, when they played Hava Nagila, a Hebrew folk song, which got everyone up dancing.


And the 10K... you are asking, how did it go? While triathlons are actually enjoyable to us both, this running race was not quite so. We both went out hard, and both had moments where we thought we were going to pass out. Was it the altitude? Too little sleep? Was it the long and gradual hill- that we had to run twice? Whatever it was, we biked home afterward and crashed on our sofas, vowing to hold off on another for a while.

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