the second phase is ending...

... and i'm all packed and ready for the third. guess what i'm gonna miss most is the big space i have here, living in a house. i got the master bedroom, with enough space to skip rope and do work-outs with my gym ball. plus, i got the biggest and nicest washroom.

did a quick recollection, and realized most of the fun stuff was done in the first half. seems like after all that, we gotten into a slow spiral of repetitive boredom. guess the best thing i did was to buy my bike. it re-sparked my interest in cycling, and i'm starting to get my fitness and shape back. Second best is probably the long road-trip during the Thanksgiving Holiday. We went to Manhattan and D.C plus a few stops in between. The highlights included visits to USNA, Fort Bragg, MOMA, Times Square, Ground Zero, running in Central Park (I now believe it when pple say it's the best place to run in the world), running up the steps to Lincoln Memorial, paying respects to the Kennedy brothers at Arlington National Cemetery, driving past the White House, Capitol Hill, among others.

Oh, another wonderful memory is driving to Clearwater to watch the Ironman World Championship 70.3 in Nov. it was such an inspiration just being able to watch and cheer these world-class triathletes. i even managed to squeeze in to the sidelines near the finish line, and high-fived some of the winners, haha...

Florida is a really beautiful place, with diverse wildlife everywhere. even in the man-made lake within our estate, there are turtles, birds of different kinds, fishes, etc. And check this out, took a shot of a man walking his dog:

Huge dog, right?? amazing.. wonder what he feeds his dog with...