Swami's gurlz

Friends of ours love Swami Kaleshwar. (http://www.kaleshwar.org/en/index) He recently made a brief visit from India to his temple in Laytonville (about 2 hrs north of here) and much to our delight, we became the Swami Way Station for travelers from SoCal on their way up North to be with him.

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Top row, left to right: Kimberly Jeanne, Jennifer, Catherine

Bottom row: Ted & Peg

All five of us wore sweet pea flowers in our hair ... okay Ted's was on his ear...

WhoooWeeeDoggies! These girls are FUN!

We had them for one giggle-icious night, shrieking over "Legal Midgets", "Bed Bugs", "Mother Fat", and Kimberly's spontaneous "If I Died Today..." soliloquy that had us crying with glee. (Ya had to be there.) Oh, and go to http://www.urbandictionary.com/ and enter your name for the funniest self definitions ever. Scarily right on, in some cases, and kept the Laugh Fest going strong.

A few days later, after the Swami had come and gone, cousin Shelley and dear friend Christinea (who lives in India at Swami's ashram) stayed the night on their way back down to SoCal. We met them with long time friends (also Swami folks) Diana, Sky and Johanna at Café Gratitude in Healdsburg (raw foods mecca here in wine country: http://www.cafegratitude.com/images/Cafe_Gratitude/Posters_Fliers/menuhh4.10.11.pdf).

Top photo, left to right: Peggy, Shelley, Christinea, Diana, Johanna

Shelley is starting a new business, Life to Dying Guide and Coaching, and a more open-hearted Angel of Death you'll never find. She and Chris and Ted worked on her website (coming soon) most of the time they were here, and it will be beautiful. You'll see.

That night we watched the Lady Gaga Monster's Ball on HBO (http://www.hbo.com/lady-gaga-presents-the-monster-ball-tour-at-madison-square-garden/index.html), singing at the TV screen, and dancing around the room like crazed fans. Paws up Little Monsters!

But yeh. The fun had to end sometime (why?), and we took Chris and Shelley to the bus station to grab a shuttle to the airport for their flight home. Safe journeys dear friends. We had a blast with y'all!