To Fresh Beginnings, Goal & Dreams!!!! MUCH EXCITEMENT!

These are some photos of Melbourne, a city that I would have no worries about living if it didn't get too cold! I love the white statue as it reminds me of a dancer and so very lovely and elegant at that. More photos soon!

Dear Ones,
How are you???? How is your February? It is almost over, can you believe it? Man these 2 months have gone so very fast, but so very full and filled with learning, exploring and opening.

I left Hobart to go up to North Sydney, I loved it up there, so very peaceful. I truly just keep falling in love with every place I go right now, it’s funny. It was just so relaxed there. Walking down the street with trees all lined up the street giving shade and a gorgeous green and yellow color surrounding you! Then there are the little outdoor cafes that have umbrellas over the tables that whether it’s raining or not people eat out there taking in the fresh breeze and the only the hum of the cars, the noisiest thing is the hiss of the bus that stops to pick up and drop off customers. The air is pretty fresh for that many cars driving around.

I sat in the most loveliest of parks with a water fountain that seems like every city has at least one of! I walked down the street, and though I’m in a city and the people are a little more aloof the people in the cafes and shops are just as friendly as in the country and it’s authentic. I walked into this café just to see what they had to offer and this woman asked if she could help me, I asked a few questions and within minutes I had the most delicious chicken schnitzel sandwich with avocado and tomatoes and other yummy things. I took my sandwich to the park where it proceeded to wake up my mouth, my senses and made my experience in the park just so much more lovely. Every bite seem to come alive. I could only eat half the sandwich it was so fulfilling!

I then just took in everyone around me, everyone was laying in each others lap, touching, talking, laughing and relaxing. The Auzzies are very publically affectionate when they are in relationship, they hold hands, make out with one another, hold each other in deep embraces and kissing often. It’s really lovely. I really like that, me being a touchy feely person.

I moved down into the city of Sydney, which was a good thing as I hadn’t really connected with Sydney and now I get it. I get why people love this city. I’m not a night person, but for a day person it’s a lovely city too. I love all the parks-Hyde Park, WOW, I’ve been there everyday reading, writing, taking in the water fountain with statues, watching the people, going in and out of the churches and listening to the sounds of their bells ring out after wedding-which I walked in on one right as the wedding march (as I call it) started up and got pushed out of the way as the bride walked by! I couldn’t imagine getting married in a church with tourists walking in. The churches here reminds me of Europe (wonder why??) big, tall colored glass windows and huge walks down to the front of the church and sun streaming in from the sky window, it was stunning!

So when I wasn’t walking around or sitting in parks, I was in a café listening to music, organizing my music for classes which has been so much fun and makes me so very happy. My heart starts pounding and I get so excited that I just can’t sit still. Then it hits me, the one thing I am so missing is DANCE. I so miss dance. I miss singing as well. I had so many opportunities in Asia, but here I share every room with someone so it’s impossible. I know I can sing with people in the room, but dance, some rooms, well lets just say it would be dangerous as they are sometimes so cramped!

So I made a decision…..YES I have!

I have been walking on cloud 9 for the past 48 hours as I had the thought to come home just a little earlier. That is right, life keeps changing each moment! And let me tell you, these past few days in Sydney have been amazing. But it’s time to go home, so I called just moments ago and I am leaving tomorrow, which means 2 days from now for most of you. I will be home Tuesday night. I won’t be able to move into my home for a few days but to be able to walk on familiar beaches, hopefully get my thoughts straight, see a few friends and get organized for work I’m very excited about.

I can feel the equal excitement for alone time as well as seeing friends. I’ve been sharing space for so long and now it’s time to have some in my room time or at least have the possibility will be so nice! But the real excitement is going for my goals and dreams. I’m thrilled to put my passions into action! That will be so lovely! Oh, yes lovely and beautiful are so much more in my vocabulary now that I’ve been in OZ. I love these words!

Tonight I go off to my friend Beenie’s and Kristi’s and then off to the airport in the AM!

If you are in LA, I’ll be seeing you soon! If you aren’t, you’ll know where I am if you’d like to see me, you have a place to stay!

I look forward to hugging you very very soon!!! Here comes a very excited Heather! Yes I know I maybe blown away by LA and want to turn and come back but I know that possibility and I’ll just have to deal with that, that is typical coming back from any trip-culture shock of the city and being stable, YIKES!!!!

At least I get to see you and dance with you very soon and hug my LA friends, Yummy!
Ok I’m out of here! Much love to you! Heather

KISS FOR YOU!!!!

This is me in Rishekesh. High on life!!! Just done chanting,kissing the world and now YOU!!!! Love, Heather

I'M IN LOVE WITH HOBART!!!!! Hard to leave it!

Dearest Ones,

Thanks for all your emails on the last one, how lovely!!!! I love hearing from you.

I have had the most glorious morning here. I had a great night sleep, woke up feeling great! And I mean Great! I got up, got dressed, no breakfast, just took off walking. The sun was out in full, I just needed a light weight shirt and headed toward the water. I didn’t know where I was going but it was stunning, the sun sparkling off the water, so warm and lovely. A perfect light breeze wisped by. I got down to the ocean which had a park, which later I realized once the dog walkers woke up was a dog park. Ozzie people love to get their dogs wet. It’s as if they insist on it, I’ve seen them do it and then the dogs are happy. So cute and funny all at the same time.

The architecture was just stunning. I loved seeing the homes with porches, with glass enclosed porches that they can work on, gardens, railings that surround around the door ways. Some homes are red brick and others old fashion, like the South East style in the US.

It’s like all my senses were alive. My eyes were constantly being fed and popping out of my head in love with everything I saw. I haven’t felt this alive in so long and it was just so great to feel so alive, curious and with such a great inner happiness that I just bounced down the street. I talked to a number of locals that were just in great moods.

I got offered a lift to Melbourne as well, on a boat. I would have taken it but it was going to take 3 weeks of hopping islands to get there. Let me tell you, if I wasn’t so excited to come home and have my date planned and if I knew I wouldn’t be hanging my head over the side of the boat (which I haven’t a clue how my body would handle a boat trip like that) I would have done it.

I loved seeing how people are in the dog parks, they let their dogs have their misunderstandings, growl at each other and verbally fight-they never physically fight but a nip here or there. They bring out water bowls for all the dogs and refill them daily so the dogs get fresh water. As well as some of the restaurants do this as well, especially in St Kilda they’d have water bowls for the dogs that their parents eat at their restaurants. It’s just lovely.

The ocean was so warm and so lovely to be next to, walk around and breath in, take in. Such great eye candy. Such delight and excitement, my heart pounded and was thrilled. Here it is my last day here, I’m sad to go. I have fallen in love with this crazy place of every changing weather, cold at times, windy and icy other times, but then there is no where you can where shorts if you so dare to trust the weather. I love laying in a park reading, relaxing, sitting in a café getting some work done before I get home as well as reading. I love taking walks around down and now at the waters edge, seeing how the people are just so lovely, relaxed and human.
I love the trees and the fresh air, the silence of the drivers, the peacefulness of this town-the largest city in Tas. I love I can go hiking just 20 minutes away by bus. I can get amazing sushi or any kind of Asian food within 2 blocks any where here in Tas. Tastes of India are every where, and tonight I am going out with Kristin for my last dinner here at her favorite Indian place!

My body is feeling great since the cleanse, it feels cleaner, I’m not eating as much, but highly aware of my ons and offs of wanting to eat and not, craving, or being ok with being hungry. I feel like I’m just feeling the effects of the cleanse now. My energy is now starting to come back, I’ve just been tired this whole time since after the cleanse. It’s like my body waited to be tired after the cleanse. Or maybe I was so busy during the cleanse I didn’t have time to be tired and now I’m able to honor my tiredness.

My goal is just to rest the whole next 9 days I’m here no matter where I go. I am reflecting and really seeing how much I love it here. I really get that now looking back. The people being so human, down to earth, friendly, making new words shorter or longer or adding an O to the end of words or ie or y-like Possy for position, Cossie for bathing suit, or Mossie for Mosiquito. I love that they are always walking their dogs, they don’t yell at their animals or at each other. They love just to have fun, be with their friends and they don’t stress about money, they know money is there to bring more happiness to their lives-as in if they want a coffee or a meal they don’t bitch about the price, they just get it, they don’t piss and moan much, they just accept “I want this and this is the price and it’s all ok”. I love that attitude. I love that the streets even in cities are relatively quiet without the honking of horns as they only use them in emergencies.

They also reserve the right to look inside your bag while checking out of any store to see if you have taken anything. Could you imagine how well that would go over in the US? They do it gently and factually, not accusatory at all, it’s pretty impressive really. Strange at first but they do it with such easy it’s not offensive at all but just what they need to do to keep everything on the up and up.

Oh, they have the best yogurt here. Oh my gosh it’s so lovely. I found this yogurt that has all the wonderful bacteria that the body needs to digest food well and it is just so yummy! I’ve been living on that for the past month that I was eating. OH my gosh it’s lovely. I’ll have to write the name down and see if we can get it in the US.

I am also so very in love with that fact that this place feels so safe. I watch people leave their bags, shoes, what ever, walk away and come back 10 minutes to an hour later and it's still there. The only thing I have had stolen from me is some gorgeous organic sheep cheese from the backpackers place and that is only in the past 2 days. Bummer but the great thing is someone has had the delight to eat that goregous cheese.

I will miss Hobart, it’s been so great, so relaxing, with nothing to do, no where to go. It’s just want I needed for part of the last few weeks traveling. It’s really shown me how easy it is to relax and to be. Just to lay under a tree and do nothing or stare out at the water and let it take the thoughts away and to be.

I have to say as much as I started to want to go home in January, these past weeks I have needed to really be excited to go home as well as the past 2 months have really shown me how to stop thinking of work and money all the time. In LA I got in the pattern of always thinking of work and it was draining, so now it’s time to go back and keep it as part of my life, not my life. I love the work I do but to always be thinking of it is too much. So I needed these last two months to calm that chatter.
I really got in touch with nature to a deeper level being up on Cradle Mt. It’s like something shifted, just taking in all that was around me was so magical it livened up my senses, and possibly being on the cleanse helped that as well.

So I am going to go enjoy the rest of my time here on my last day in Hobart and try not to get sun burned, as it’s so stunning out there. I send you love, Heather

TASMANIA PHOTOS! GORGEOUS!!!!

The little critter you see in the next batch of photos is a Wombat, it came up and smelled my foot, I am in love with Wombats, so very adorable. The mountain area is Cradle Mt, the ocean is one of the top 10 beaches in the world Wineglass Bay, just stunning. Dolphins came out to play with people and by themselves, it was just lovely. The lake is the lake I woke up to in the morning in Cradle Mt area.
Enjoy!!!! See you soon, Love, Heather

GUESS WHAT!!!!!

Hello Hello Hello,
It’s time……!!!!! I’M COMING HOME!!!!! I’m so very excited by this. It feels so very right! I want to see you (my friends at home), be with my friends, sleep in my own bed and wear my clothes that I haven’t seen in over a year-and probably have forgotten about most of, AND DANCE DANCE DANCE in my community of friends, hike my mountains I know and just be!

It’s time to come home to the people I know, the places I know and to go to be in my womb inside my home, be able to close the door and be alone, without listening to the snores of strangers inside my dorm room. I look forward to getting up without having to tiptoe around and be so quiet as to not wake anyway. I want to start the next leg of my journey-creativity-singing, dancing, sewing, batiking, cooking, baking, and throwing parties. I look forward to start teaching new classes and expanding in a stable zone. Yes I know this all means giving up the constant change, the newness, the meeting of new people daily and seeing different places everyday. But there is so much and so many around me even at home I have not seen or met and so maybe it’s time to see those places and meet those people.

It is so nice to come home excited, with a goal and dream. Before I left I felt I had no reason any more to be in LA but now I feel like I’m coming back with so much I want to give, do and be that it’s thrilling to me. This trip has gotten me so clear on who I am, who I want to be when I grow up ((I love that line) and what I want in my life. Nothing has changed, it has all been there, the same since childhood really, well except batiking which I only have known of for 9 years now. But it took time away, time alone to look inside to re-see and re-feel it again to live it.

I really want to create a community of people that are creative together, active together, cook, play, create dreams and fulfill dreams together, support each others dreams, and just being there for one another.

I will be able to hug you in person soon enough now. As I am coming home the evening of February 28th! It’s funny this date has been following my family around for years, all kinds of things have happened on this day but it feels like the date that has been calling to come home on, so that’s what I’m doing!
I look forward to seeing you

Love love love, Heather

WOW!!!! The Mountains! Cleansing, Trekking & the Beach!

G’day Mates,
How are you? I hope this finds you splendid, busting with life at the seems. For me, right now is a time of rest and letting the body heal. The last 13 days have been glorious! Filled with tremendous views, hikes, tours of the Cadbury Chocolate Factory, cleansing for 10 days, going through some beautiful emotions and not so beautiful emotions-but all needed and healing.

Before I left Hobart I went to the Cadbury Chocolate Factory, oh my goodness, the scent in there is just lovely. The hundreds of thousands of pounds of chocolate that is made there daily is just ridiculous! But how yummy is it to smell and take little tastes of. Do you know which country eats the most chocolate-according the Cadbury? Take a wild guess……Ireland. I guess with it being cold and well you know what they say about chocolate and sex…..hummmm……well…..Maybe Ireland needs a little something! ; )

It was pretty impressive to see these machines that can wrap 700 candies in a minute, while the fastest hand roller was 120 or 170 a minute. I can’t imagine, those are some fast hands. They give you a little box mixed chocolates at the end and plenty of time to shop in their little shop full of sweet delights.
After that is when Kristin had the Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, which left lots of left-overs in the house. But come Monday, only 2 days after the fiesta we started our cleanse. For me this is a time to get India out of my system, as it effects the body in strange ways and last time it took 5 years to get my toe nails back to normal. So off we went onto the Master Cleanse. Not sure if you know anything about it but it’s a cleanse you do for preferred minimum of 10 days to over 40 if you are seriously ill. All you intake the whole time is Bentonite (sp?), in the morning, with a tea to help you go!!!! Then you start with the real stuff of maple syrup, lemon and cayenne pepper in water-drinking 2-4 liters a day and that is your diet for 10 days, well repeating the Bentonite and tea at night as well. But that is it.

This process was amazing, truly impressive to see where “hunger” starts from…..as we think our way into hunger. I so many times didn’t feel hungry but my mind wanted to eat. Talk about a mind control, to really watch the mind. Here you are getting all the minerals, vitamins and substance you need to live on, exist and your mind is going “I want this, feed me that”. But since Lemons and Limes are the two most healthy things you can eat and the minerals in the syrup is so comprehensive to keep you going and the warmth and vitamin B and C in the Cayenne is so good you being well fed through a liquid diet. It’s just retraining the mind to know you are fine, you don’t need “food” to exist and function.

There were many times I didn’t feel hungry, and other times that I couldn’t get enough of the stuff-on the strenuous days! The great thing about this stuff is it tastes great. I didn’t think it would but it was lovely, I never got sick of it-well except one day when I had to put less syrup in as there was no store for 2 days away and I wanted to extend my stay in the woods, then it got a little bitter!!! ; )

So that was cleansing and clearing and lightening of the load of the toxins in the body and bile and a little weight.

After getting used to being on the cleanse, 3 days in I took off for Cradle Mountain…..this is the place that everyone goes to, to do the Overland Track, which I had decided not to do as I didn’t want to be part of the human highway. I got up there and already to go up to the Scott Kilvert hut for a night or two, excited to be backpacking-first time on my own, what an exhilarating feeling to do this on my own! I loved it.

But what I was ready for is this trail that was recommended to me to go up-which I found out later is the hardest trail in the whole National Park. On no food, only a liquid diet I went up by foot, on hands and foot, and hands and knees, around cliffs, up cliffs, over mountains, next to lakes and sweated up steep jagged edges, and panted up with my 40+ pound pack (I was loaned some pretty heavy gear), nursing a sore knee, to get to the hut 5 hours later. I don’t ever recommend doing this on a cleanse, I call it crazy. I had no idea what I was in for as I took the hardest trails, but then I always love a good challenge, just preferably not on a cleanse! I will say being in nature is the best place to be when you are on a cleanse though, it really makes you closer and more at one with nature and I felt more alive!

But the views made it all worth it….Let me start with where the trail starts from. Lake Dove. Take my breath away….here you stand before this gorgeous lake with the back ground being these 2 jagged mountain ranges jutting out of no where behind them. They are ragged, sharp, pointed, and gorgeous! Green all around them but them being this brown jutting out from the earth with the blue lake in front of them. I just didn’t want to leave from the lake. But with every bend, with every turn, they got closer to them, they kept beckoning me, reaching for me, taking me in , drinking me in with each step closer. It was a grey day but it was still stunning that day.

I got up to the view point of Cradle Mountain and what can I say….there really aren’t any words to express how strong, bold, knightly, and brilliant this mountain is. I felt so at peace and happy in the presence of this mountain. It’s as if it talked to me. Maybe I was here once before in a past life, maybe not, but this mountain called to my body and talked to it and my body loved it. I never wanted it out of view. I never had this feeling with a mountain before. So on I went, forging forward past Crater Lake which is huge and glorious with it’s mountainess edges and deep slices cut into the sides of the mountains surrounding it. At this point I was on the Overland track, which is the most easy part of the whole trail….it is actually so well maintained even going up hill it’s an easy track to take.

You can’t believe how heavy lemons and syrup are until you take them on a walk with you….I don’t recommend that walk! ; ) I just laugh at myself now for doing such a crazy thing but live and learn I guess.

I got the base of Cradle and decided that because my knee was in so much pain by this time and I was getting tired and I had at least 2 hours left to hike, not to go up, plus it’s a pretty dangerous trail up there and even worse coming down.

So I went on to the hut, which took 2 ½ hours, losing the trail at one point, almost going down a cliff, but instead realizing the trail was straight up the cliff side. YIKES! I had rain, sleet, hail and stuff I called slail as it was between sleet and hail, I had gusting winds and a little bit of sun. And though I was tired and cranky I still sang as I went along-the strangest songs you find you know when you trek, things I didn’t even know I knew….a strange thing in nature what pours out of ya! Coming off that steep mountain trail my legs were shaky and I was pooped, so I copped a squat for a bit (took a break) and just rested with the lovely surroundings of great green valleys, mountains and the scent of nature all around me. Luckily from there it was most all down hill. I got to the hut and I was alone for the first bit. The lake the hut sat on was just lovely.

I got in set up, had my “food” and rested. That night was filled with 3 others showing up, talking, them eating and thinking I’m crazy to be not eating and doing this-I agreed. But with my hot water bottle in my sleeping bag I went out and slept very nicely, after I got over the sounds of the craziest snorers I’ve ever heard in my life, so erratic, no constant anything, just all over the place different sounds coming out of this woman’s mouth and the man at least was pretty even with his snores.

I got up to the most gorgeous morning in a long time. I didn’t need my 5 layers, my fleece hat and my hiking boots. So off I went outside to the lake and did my yoga, meditated and wrote, as the sun came up over the lake and shown it’s brilliance of life on me and the earth. As I sat there all I could think is “this is how I want to get up every morning, to a lake in my back yard and the sun in a clear blue sky warming my whole being”. The only things I’d change is I’d like the wind to be warmer, a kayak for the lake and preferably a place a little closer to a road so it’s easier to get the food to the house, oh and central heating and a larger pot belly stove!

I finally had to tear myself away from the lake so I could get down the trail. I headed out a different trail out and had some more just stunning views of other lakes. But I have to say with my knee being cranky it wasn’t as nice as it could have been if my knee was feeling better. Luckily it was a pretty good trail out. I got back down and got a great little wooden shack with 3 bunks in it all to myself for $17.00 and went off for a tiny hike and came back to the kitchen that was warmed by a large fireplace to just read, relax, have my drink and some tea and pass out. I was wiped out.

Over the next two days I went on some great hikes and got to see wallabees every where (I see them as little kangaroos) and the best thing happen that made me so very happy. I not only saw a wombat, but I got to follow it around and it finally came right up to me and smelled my foot. OH I was so excited!!! I was about to pet it but I saw the bus was coming and had to leave, and it scared the poor little critter. From a distance it looks like a pig but up close it has brownish/black fur about 1 ½ inches long, short stubby legs, about a ¼ of foot from the ground, long and round-a little chubby with a angular face and round beautiful beady eyes. It kept its head down eating as it walked and had a little tail as well. OH it was so cute. I just wanted to pick it up and take it home with me. I now want a wombat, wallabee and a koala in my yard as wild pets.

The next few days I just relaxed as I went on my way to Coles Bay and hiked over this hill to Wineglass bay, which OH MY GOSH! I now know why it is said to be one of the top 10 most beautiful beaches in the world. It is stunning and not only just the white sand that is so soft to the touch, but the water is so clear AND the best thing is a whole group of 10+ dolphins came and swam, played, jumped out of the water straight up and splashed down. A few people actually swam out to them. The wind was way to cold for me to be getting in that cold water-no way!!! YIKES! You have to realize the wind comes straight from Antarctica and it feels like ice air. I think it is actually colder here in Tassie then in New Zealand. Not sure how but it’s what it feels like. But the dolphins came for a very long visit but once 5 people got out there the dolphins left. Well for a while, they came back to play a little more and then they were off again.

So now I am back in Hobart to relax, I got a ride from a fellow coming here from Coles Bay, the drive was just stunning. I am back, I am starting to take in a little food, after doing a day of orange juice and my body is not so sure about this solid food stuff. It at first felt like a lump in my stomach and it’s getting a little used to it. But I’ll tell you, I have never felt so full from eating a half of an avocado! It sustained me for a good 3-4 hours. I did some research on these lovely fruits to find they are one of the easiest digestible foods there are and we are to have 3-6 a week and they are the perfect thing to eat while trying to come off meat as they have so much protein. So just in case you want to come off meat, this is a good substitute. This website I found told you so much about them it blew me away. Thankfully I love these lovely fruits.

So the next week will be adjusting to eating again, gently and easily and resting. I hope you are having a brilliant time in life, your heart is opening and living your dreams. Heaven knows my dreams are growing by the minute and once I am home I’ll happy to put them in motion. Yet right now I’m living a different dream! Much love to you, I send you all hugs, Heather

The Day for Love.....

The Day for Love…

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

This is the day that is set aside for expressing love, love for partners, lovers, married couples and friends. Remember in school when you’d write out all those little Valentine Cards and give them to your friends and the cute boy/girl that sat in the corner or back of the room? How lovely it was to send out those little hearts as well with the cards to show their sweetness! What sweet and delicious times.

Funny we have a day to express love as it would be much better to celebrate this daily. Maybe that would be a nice wish……just lovely.

I wish you a loving day, full of inner love for yourself most of all, peace, love and comfort with all around you and full expression to share your love with them as well as treat yourself with love always. Being patient with ones self and others is one way of loving, being generous with ones time, giving hugs every chance you get and really receiving them back. Feel the connection with your friends, your own heart and life around you, even the strangers walking down the street-they need love too, today and everyday. Maybe just giving that smile will brighten someone’s day or save someone life, you never know, doing random acts of kindness does lovely things to ones soul-to the receiver and giver.

Know that this isn’t the only day we get to share love, and do special things for others, every day is for this…how lovely to know if we accidentally skip sharing love with someone on our list of people we love we can do it tomorrow.

Lend a hand, a heart, an ear….slow down for just a minute, touch someone you don’t know in the grocery store as you reach for that box of chocolates and give a warm smile, see how this is received, but don’t expect anything….some people don’t know how to handle touch, but we all so very much need it.

I’ve met people in my life that are not touchy feely people and I’ll just hug them as they giggle uncomfortably until they learn to love the touch, the hug, the embrace, as scary as it is for them, they do love it in some way.

So for me, I am sending you love, I am touching you as well as I can today, taking my two arms, reaching them out to both sides of me as far as I can and I am wrapping them around you so HUGELY and hugging you, sending you so much love and tenderness and this glorious day of LOVE. I am there with you in your heart and supporting you in anyway I can to allow love to be there stronger every day. I know it’s hard to feel love at all times, but we can all work toward that and eventually it may just be upon us.

I feel blessed to have you in my life, to be able to touch you, to share my life with you as well as hear about your life, your stories, and your heart. Thank you for being a part of my life. I send you love and one day real soon I’ll be giving you one great big hug! HAPPY LOVE DAY=HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
Love, Heather

Yummy Kanga!!!!

Hey ya lovely friends,
How ya goin? I’m good! I’m here in lovely Tasmania, staying with my girlfriend Kristin & family, who I haven’t seen in 5 years and it’s been a great! She has truly been amazing letting me share her home, play with her son-who is just a beautiful 4.5 year old and be part of her family.

My first day here I went around gathering info on the Overland Trek, but after a few days my traveling companions canceled as we found out how costly it was going to be, just go to TREKKING! I can’t blame them, I was thinking the same thing, but wanted to go trekking so I thought to go anyway. After talking to some locals here I found that that trek is a human highway and if I wanted peace and nature it’s not the trail to go on. So I have let it go and now I have found a million other trails to trek that don’t charge a huge fee to go on! So that is the plan. I have never trekked alone but it’s time for an adventure and something new, or I’ll meet up with someone along the way!!! ; ) It’s all good living day to day seeing what gifts this life will give.

So Kristin took me on some gorgeous hikes up in the Mt Fields National Park and it was just stunning. She loves to hike too so we had a blast hiking, catching up and exploring.

I absolutely love being around her son. This past weekend Kristin had a Cinco De Mayo Fiesta!!!! They don’t celebrate this so it didn’t matter that it was in February and they had to dress up Mexico style!!! They came with great costumes and we had tons of guacamole and chips, her friend prepared some lovely food, not sure what it was called but yummy, fried quesdias, Margarita’s and everyone was happy with the Coronas. The great part was when it came Sunday morning everyone was a little tired and I laid in bed with Ollie, her son, as he played with my hair and cuddled with me and watched Shrek II and later The Incredibles-man I love cartoons! He was just adorable curled up in my arms and entangling his little hands in my hair. Just precious.

I had Roo! Yep that is right, as much as I protested I did not want to eat these hoppity hop hop animals, I broke down when Kristin said how she liked it better then any other meat as well as it healthier then other meat. So I had Kangaroo at her house, it was lovely! It had the texture of steak but had the flavor of liver and steak mixed but better. Luckily I like liver-though I haven’t had it in years, but it wasn’t a strong flavor of liver, but just enough. There was no fat on this thing at all, just pure really red meat. It was so good, filling and you didn’t need much to fill ya. Yummy!

We went on another hike in the sprinkling air on Sunday and it was just as lovely even in that weather. It’s nice hiking all around this area. It’s also nice there is nothing to bite cha, but snakes that are highly poisoness. They actually take the cat in at night so it doesn’t kill birds and night critters. Whereas in Cali we worry about what’s going to eat the cat.

So Kristin and have found refuge at Starbucks from time to time, reading and just letting life be and enjoying the moment. It’s nice to have a little piece of home from time to time.

I decided to finally cleanse, I’ve talked about it forever now, but I have finally started and Kristin decided to join me. So we have been drinking our diet the past two days now. The first day was hard as I was cold, didn’t do much and hungry with yummy food that is very bad for me in the fridge. But I was good, I got out and hiked, had no food and went to bed feeling really great and slept like a baby! Today’s been great as I got up, went straight for a hike, clearing my thoughts and breathing in the trees and smelling nature and now I’m in town trying to choose which trail I’m going on! This is the difficulty with having such a lovely hiking island, how to choose. But luckily after some calls, found out many don’t have water, and so I won’t be going there. The idea of trekking with water has no appeal to me.

In the next few days I’ll be off for some trekking and exploring Tas. It will be nice to see some more of this lovely island between the mainland and NZ. Funny many feel that Tas is it’s own country, they can keep saying it, but it’s not, it’s still part of OZ.

I am learning more of the language here as Kristin and I talk about it all the time. It’s so fun. They love shortening things but then sometimes they lengthen words by putting a “y or ie” at the end of a word.

I am good, I’d love to hear from you, see how you are. Keep smiling, stayin’ positive and cherishing each moment. I send you great big hugs. Love, Heather

Photos!!!!

Hello there,
Here are photos!!!! The first one is of me in Rishekesh, near the Ganga where I'd chant each morning! Then the Ocean is in Bryon Bay, so beautiful! My feet in the Suds at Lennox Head with my as Monkey toes!!! :) The card is something I just loved and had to take a photo of, Creating our own life-it's what we do each day, it's within our power everyday! There are other cards that aren't so inspiring that I may put up one day so you can get the OZ sense of humour, one day anyway! And then there is the archetecture of Sydney, very beautiful. In fact much of the homes here have those grates, metal railings, I think it's beautiful.
Much love to you! Keep creating and I send you many hugs and wish you love, joy and happiness! Love, Heather
PS. Also if you are interested in the coming Chinese New Year animal-the rat and finding out how it may effect your year (which I always take with a grain of salt, but I think is fun) go to www.proastro.com. Enjoy!!!