ok so maybe i should provide a little more background on the video below. it was an activity at miraval called swing and a prayer and i like to call it scream and a prayer (or for the love of god are you serious?). it was by far the scariest challenge activity for me (clearly). there are no physical aspects to it. you get hoisted up about 35 feet and then you let go of the rope when you are ready. i did it one other time prior to the video taped one and i so hated it. so of course, i had to try it again! ;)

so i guess i'll take the time to bring everyone up to date on my miraval adventure. spending a month there was the best thing i could have possibly done. i am so happy and loved every minute of it. i got to do all kinds of cool challenge activities (i'll be posting photos of those soon). quantum leap was climbing up a 25 foot telephone pole and then getting yourself on top of it and balancing yourself on a piece of wood about the size of a dinner plate. then there is quantum leap 2 - climbing up a 35 foot telephone pole and balancing yourself on a 3 foot by 1 foot platform and then helping another person get up on it with you. i already mentioned swing and a prayer and the last one was out on a limb. that you climb up another 35 foot pole and then walk across a log to the other side and then half way back. you get to jump off all of these things when your done and then get lowered to the ground. they were all completely amazing and fun. thank goodness for chris, the challenge dude. he made all the experiences brilliant. he knows when and exactly what buttons to push if you start to pansy out. he rules!

and then of course there was the fabu yoga. i got to push myself a bit and learned (rather tried and busted my ass on) some new poses (warrior 3 is my new fave). all of the yogis were fabu teachers and i had such a great time doing yoga almost every day. i so loved restorative yoga with mary grace and dream yoga with joe. lazy yoga rules! oh and womanly yoga with natasha ruled, too!

and then of course there were the spa treatments which were all divine. i got the ever fabu jared many times as well as peter and david for massages. the lovely miss lolita did the most amazing reiki treatments on me. and my fave new treatments were the seaweed detox wrap and the aqua latte bath. highlights were getting all the gossip and hearing funny stories from the kids while laughing my keester off. they all totally rule and i miss them mucho!

i also tried the climbing wall and got to climb on top of it with john (he's fabu as well!) and then we went out to windy point on mt. lemmon one of the days and i got to climb up a 60 foot rock. when it came to rappelling i was a big baby and john had to rappel down with me. such a sweet little dude, i bashed the crap out of him!

i did have a ton of epiphanies and became aware of many personal truths and all that but i'm not going to bore anyone with those details at this point :)

we are going to be planning a return visit in june for anyone who is interested. i think we'll be getting a really big crowd to go so it should be a lot of fun!

i stayed an extra week in tucson and it was a blast. i got to go to dinner and lunch at ra quite a few times (an amazing sushi restaurant that rules!). bunny and i went shopping down 4th street and i got the coolest black cowboy boots with white stars on them. we had a hilarious drinking game night (someone lost their cookies on the couch - gross!). i went to the sonoran desert museum and that was awesome. for my b-day we went to poca cosa and i got a little too wasted on their fabu cosmos. so much so that i locked my purse (with keys inside) in the trunk of my rental car. we then went to the gay bar and the goth bar and it was a lot of fun. i continued to drink and get even more drunk. i remember trying to recite plant names that jared (mega botany nerd boy) kept saying but it was a little pathetic.

i am now in phoenix at my cousins house and i'll be leaving for vegas tomorrow and the salt lake after that.

so that's that. it may have sounded a little boring but i'll space it out from now on and try to make it a little more sassy and fun.

hope everyone is well. love and miss you, MWAH!

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