Thursday, March 26, 2009

This morning I woke up with a super swollen eye. I wasn’t sure if it was from drinking too much wine last night at Casa Papaya in honor of Jody’s birthday party, sympathy swelling for Cosmo’s infected eye, or if the poison from the insect bite/sting that I got riding my bike to Playa Avellanas yesterday had moved all the way around my eye. Based on the few bites that have surfaced on the right side of my eye today, it was indeed the insect sting/bite. We’ll see how yoga goes with a swollen eye today. Our guest of honor from last night will be teaching our yoga class today, as Gabby is attending a retreat in San Jose and driving back this morning. Can’t wait for yet another accent narrating our yoga practice – this one from North Carolina. Jody and Anja have been celebrating Jody’s birthday here in Playa Negra since last Thursday. Turns out, they celebrate each other’s birthdays each year with a cool trip! Thursday evening we all walked down to the beach together for the sunset and they told me the greatest story about being on Oprah. Apparently, two years ago for Jody’s birthday, Anja was trying to arrange a trip to attend the Oprah show. She was on the website looking around for tickets and other info. and left an opinion re: an upcoming show, when the co-producer called her to see if she could fly out the next day and appear on the show in two days! Anja said yes and arranged for Jody to come along (of course), so they were flown out, wined and dined, put up in a beautiful hotel, appeared on the Oprah show with her opinion about choosing to be single still at 40-something, and then flown home! They are sisters, are so pleasant and fun to be around, it was truly a pleasure to have met them.

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