Just back from picking Max up at the bus stop in Glens Falls NY.. It.  It was about 2 hours each way which is about the same distance whether we pick him up from the train or the afternoon bus,.. It still beats the heck out of driving him back and forth to NYC. He had a really good and productive visit down at Pratt. He really feels at home there… We missed him very much while he was away.       I ended up having to make the drive back down to Glens Falls only about an hour and a half after we all got back from Killington. We had a really nice couple of days down there.   We woke this morning  to about zero degrees and biting winds… I hadn’t been able to sleep much because of recurring sad/confusing dreams around Sam.  No one had any motivation to go outside and brave the elements. Instead, we had a quiet morning in the house.  Diane ushered about half of us downstairs for a yoga class to loosen all of our bones after the previous days boarding, skiing and snowboarding.  In the end, we almost didn’t even get to the yoga. Instead we started showing each other our favorite party tricks.. We spent about 03 minutes doing the two finger levitation trick. We used to call it ” light as a feather, stiff as a board” The idea is to allow your body to become both relaxed and stiff enough to allow a group of 6-8 people to lift you. using only two fingers from each hand. It’s an amazing effect. The first time they tried it on me.. they couldn’t lift me.. I was too skeptical. They tried again after I closed my eyes and did a bit of meditation.. on that next try I rose right into the air.

Gabe was so in to it that we all quickly got him to the ceiling with no effort at all..

 It’s such a cool feeling.  After that we did a trust game in which a person stands in the center of a ring of people. He/she closes his/her eyes and falls in any direction. The folks in the circle bump the person back upright. You have to have total trust to let yourself fall in any direction while keeping your hands crossed at your chest. I took this movie of us doing it to Gabe…   it’s a very cool feeling.

 After that we did  some partner yoga including Diane’s favorite cascading downward dog.. It was a perfect start to the morning

 

After yoga we spent an hour or so cleaning the house.. It was amazing how fast.. and how much fun it is to clean a house with 15 sets of hands…Check out time was 12 noon. At11:50 the last crumb of food was cleaned away. and we were ready to leave.. We grabbed one last picture of the group..

thought you can’t see it here.. Sam was in the picture too. I boosted Gabe up the stone wall to place a SamStone in plain sight up in the rock facing.. We like to leave a little bit of Sam wherever we go

 

At 12 sharp we all left for home I ended up driving Kevin and Nate back to Richmond.. On the way back I got a lecture on ‘Steez’ which is snowboardeeze for something like style… as in ‘that guy has steez’ it’s some blend of talent, attitude and fashion style, I think. I got an hours worth of who had steez.. and how didn’t.. I also learned that there are different kind of steez..   It seemed to me that everyone had some sort of steez. I was told that  had ‘science steez’..   Jen said I had ‘immature guy in grownup’s body steez‘  

   One thing we all agreed on .. Sam.. you have major steez….

-jc

ps it’s about 16 below zero Farenheit.. right now  pretty intense for March !