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I decided to sign up for the Athletic club that I have mentioned before. Jim and I walked over there yesterday to go swimming, but we came sometime closer to 11 and by then it was pretty packed with both adults and kids, so we decided to do other stuff. J was at the gym most of the time and I spent the majority of the time in the dance studio. The floors were kinda dusty (next time I will ask for a broom), so I had to do a lot of sweeping movements to clear the floor and I looked like a fuzzball in the end:) Very nice to be playing around in a dance studio again though. I have truly missed it. 
There’s a new bar/restaurant with fireplaces, couches and cute lights that just opened up, so we went to try the food there. Wow, the plates were big and the food was amazing! I think we will be going back:)
We went to see the new Avengers movie yesterday too. I haven’t seen all of them prior to this so I didn’t know of some of the characters, I guess I have to watch them all some time. The movie was better than I had expected, but a little to much crying. It almost felt like a chick flick. 
Today we haven’t done much. J bought shoes, I found new coasters and now I’m doing laundry and J is playing games on his pc. Not very exciting, but the weather this weekend is pretty boring too, cold and rainy. Oh well. 

My husband joined an Athletic Club near our apartment. I went to check it out with him a few weeks ago. He got a free week and then decided to sign up for a monthly membership. He has been looking for a place to play basketball and this place has a basketball court, swimming pool, saunas, dance studio, gym, yoga and cardio classes etc. We have a gym in our building but this place offers things we don’t find anywhere else for a good rate.
I started my free week on Friday. We walked over there together to try an evening class, but that class happened to be cancelled. So Jim and I worked out at the gym for awhile together and then I enjoyed some time in the dance studio. It might sound strange to someone who’s not a dancer, but I spent 10-15 minutes just touching, feeling, sweeping my hands and feet on the floor, like if I met the floor for the first time.
I’ve always seen the floor as my partner. There’s a communication between the floor and myself that I can’t explain. There’s something real about it. I feel safe, I feel cared for and I almost feel like it’s my obligation to dance on this floor, it wants to be danced on. I’m rusty, I don’t remember everything that I used to, so I needed to take these minutes to just get back to the feeling, be familiar with it again. I dance in the gym in our building all the time, I’ve been in yoga studios, I have been teaching, but on Friday when I walked in to this studio that had flooring similar to what I grew up with, it felt amazing to just have a moment with the floor and become real good friends again.