It’s been a while since I’ve updated the recent happenings in the Magin’s world. I turned 35 on the 22nd of January and well…it was quite anti-climatic but fun all the same. I’m officially half way through my 30’s. Cool. I had a few dinners to celebrate. I got some really nice gifts from some very lovely people. Thank you all. This a photo of my friend Merritt and I at a fabulous restaurant in Camden Town. Very fun! That’s actually a mint tea made with real mint tea leaves on the table, not a a Mojito. We enjoyed champagne as our drink of choice that night. I used to drink real mint tea like that all the time in LA, so it was a real treat that they actually had fresh mint tea at the restaurant.

We spent New Years with our Friends Dave and Eva eating lovely Italian food. We then went to the center of London to watch the fireworks. Well we got there a bit late and only got to see them on the TV screens that were set-up in Trafalgar Square.  We could have seen the event on our TV screen but we wouldn’t have had the pleasure of feeling the energy of the crowd,  pushing us out of the tube station onto the crowded streets of London. We would have only seen the spray of champagne we felt as the the new year rang in. We also couldn’t have so easily walked over  to the actual site of the fireworks after the show concluded just a short ten minutes later. It was a cold night but a really nice walk non the less. This is what we saw.

The week after New Years we went to the coast to do some body boarding. Well Kim did the body boarding I did the photo taking. He actually had many photos taken of him that day. There is a surfing site called magicseaweed.com and someone took photos of this very day of Kim body boarding. Here is another great body boarding shot- Well done KIM! Below are the photos I took.

The sun rising over the ocean. The clouds did actually clear as you’ll see below.

Kim body boarding his way through a tube of water about 6 feet in height. He’s shaded but we were enjoyingthe sun!

He’s happy to have gotten the chance to ride. I am happy as we’re on our way to lunch. Are you sensing a theme here? I am eating my way through 2009. Besides that I’m busy running more often as well as doing a lot of yoga and I’m beginning to teach again as well. I found a few gyms very close to our house to teach yoga at and a really great Pilates studio with the proper equipment to teach on just around the corner from my house. The weather has been a bit all over the place and the recession has slowed the process of getting anything going here, even for the already established.

This year is looking to be a year of major changes for many of us. We have a new president. The people of the world are as happy as we Americans. Much of the world is in a recession but is seeking ways to counter this. It’s like a company going bankrupt. The owner can only look at ways to rebuild and restructure in a better way. The world can only but benefit from reflecting on how it got to where it is today. What better a time than now, in the winter, when even mother  nature is contemplating how she will regenerate herself come spring and always in a seemingly effortless manner as well. We could all learn a lesson from her process, allowing the time in which life passes and the occurances that take place during that time to be the only effort needed to make the necessary changes.