The Zoo, a Book Cover and OMG BABY DUCKS!

I gave myself a four-day weekend. I was finished work Wednesday night at 4:00, went to power yoga that evening (hot power yoga, mind you) and woke up Thursday ready. I met up with a friend who moved to Delaware at the Philadelphia Zoo. Try to have a bad day at the zoo, I dare you. I borrowed my work camera in the hopes of getting some shots I could be proud of. I think I succeeded. Here are a few of my favorites:

I LOVE peacocks.

He was in the rare animal conservatory. I love his face and coloring.

My sister is writing a book about our mom and what it was like trying to find her. She asked me to do the cover for her. It'll be an e-book, available soon. She currently has a book of her poetry available for kindle called The Color of Dawn. She's an excellent writer, and I can't wait to read the novel.

Coconuts just bought a house, so I went to see it (it's super cute, btw) and we ventured over to Zern's-a big farmer's/flea/food market. A local pet store has a shop in there where they bring some of their animals. Friday it happened to be BABY DUCKS! And baby chicks. I totally could have had a Friends moment--but I didn't.

This is Alphonse. I should have bought him.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

What If Workout Programs Were Based On 90's Hip Hop?

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I needed a little Monday pick-me-up today, so I made a Pandora station based on Tone-Loc (I don't have him in my iPod (wtf, me?) and wanted some Funky Cold Medina to get me through the day.) I also had 2 coworkers make the station. I highly recommend it. 

So from that I decided I want to make a workout program inspired by the song that would be singing. I'd do all of these for the length of the song-or at least I'd try. I don't know if I could do that many push-ups in a row.

1. "Jump Around" House of Pain- Jump rope and jumping jacks. Note-this song reminds me of Mrs. Doubtfire. I might have to watch it-it's free on Amazon Prime.
2.  "Push It" Salt-N-Pepa- Push Ups or some kind of hand weight arm exercise. Okay, I know that's not the kind of pushing they were referring to, but whatever.
3.  "Walk This Way" Run DMC & Aerosmith-Walk or run in place.
4. "Baby Got Back" Sir Mix-A-Lot- Side bends and situps. Because he specifically asks us to.
5. "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" Big Willie Style- Don't act like you don't remember the dance.
6.  "1 2 3 4 Sumpin New" Coolio- "Get your booty on the floor. Gonna, gonna get up, get down." This song calls for squats and lunges. Probably alternate by 10's or 15's.
7. "Can't Touch This" MC Hammer-The running man/running in place. Probably with some side-to-side action. Check out the video if you don't know what I mean.
8. "Mama Said Knock You Out" LL Cool J- Punches a la tai bo.
9. "Tootsee Roll" 69 Boyz- This one's pretty self-explanatory. But I had to look up the video because I forgot.
10.  "End of the Road" Boyz II Men. Because you're done, and it's a slow song so you can cool down and stretch. And they're from Philly. Plus, I didn't have anything better in mind.

Happy Monday!