Family memories

I love my brothers and sister, really love them. Living in Aspen is really amazing, but makes me realize I'm really far, FAR away from my Quebecoise Family. I had such a great childhood surrounded by them. Can't wait to see them in May. Ben has some great amazing pictures of his childhood as well.

I love the smile and the pure joy of life kids have. It's just so cute :)

Raw food diet

My 2 week Raw Food Diet Challenge

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Thanksgiving being over, I decided to start a 2 week raw food diet which consists of a diet based on unprocessed and uncooked plant foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweed. I'm almost done with my third day which was pretty easy.....well more than I thought. I just keep telling myself it isn't hard at all. Working at Bruneslleschi's makes it a little harder though with all those different smells in the air. Pizza and pasta sounds great to me right now!! Oh, I served Melanie Griffith yesterday afternoon and I felt really lucky once again :) Lance Armstrong was pretty amazing as well... I was asked to serve him about 5 weeks ago. Awesome! It's pretty amazing how celebrities are just like everybody else at the end.....Back to the main subject! hehe

What are the Benefits of the Raw Food Diet?

That diet has numerous health benefits, including:

• Increased energy
  
• Improved skin appearance
  
• Better digestion
  
• Weight loss
  
• Reduced risk of heart disease

Let me tell you that the Raw Food Diet shows the results really fast when combined with Power and Bikram Yoga. So I told Ben I didn't wanna see the scale here for 2 weeks and he took the batteries out of that evil machine until Sunday, January 10th. It's alright, I'm just doing an experimentation on my own body. I don't have weight to lose, but I really needed to detox after our 2 week honeymoon and all the food we ate last week for the Holidays. Ben and I were on The Raw Food Diet last summer for about 2 months straight, and it felt awesome. It makes you feel so light and so great. It brightens your mind and your life, everything just becomes better. Something to try if you feel like it. Oh, wine is raw which makes everything better :)

Wish me luck :)

Married

So Ben and I got married in Costa Rica at 4pm on Sunday, December 6th. It was wonderful. The ceremony was held at a private beach in Los Suenos....the most amazing beach there. A few celebrities have houses there....so beautiful! We also had a perfect pink sunset that God sent to us as a wedding present.... everything was amazing!!

The hotel manager Brian cooked us the dream dinner. He set a table on a balcony overlooking the entire Docelunas property. It's was so yummy. We started with a bottle of wine and about 20 minutes later, the server brought us 2 ceviches as appetizers, then we had 2 huge lobsters with GARLIC BUTTER...I so love garlic butter :) After all that food, we were stuffed to the ears...(french expression). We were hoping dinner was over....but nope! As the SECOND main course, they brought us a enormous red snapper. It was like 18 inches long, no kidding!! I had a bite and Ben had like 3. Maybe they thought we were too skinny or something!! Or could they expect us to eat all that! I was seriously feeling just right after the ceviche and I still ate a full lobster. So, we gave the rest of that huge fish to the staff, which was amazing! Everybody was so nice to us. We were treated like kings and queens.

We got back last Tuesday night from our wedding/honeymoon. We had such a great time in Costa Rica. The weather was just perfect. We enjoyed it so much, too much. Besides the fact that we got mugged at gun point on our third day in CR, we tried to make our trip the most enjoyable as possible. We still had 11 more days to spend there you know. I was really scared to go to the beach again, it's like if Ben and I always felt in danger or something. I mean, the mugging incident happened at the safest beach in Costa Rica, and at 2 in the afternoon. Those 3 guys didn't even say a word...they just pointed that gun at us and robbed us. We were so pissed and scared afterwards. We were kinda confused also. Why? and what the heck?

So can you imagine how dangerous it is there at night....oh well! So, they stole our new $800.00 camera. I bet they were expecting to find cash in the camera bag, as well as our passports.....ha ha..suckers!!. Anyway, we survived and we still had a blast over there and we got MARRIED. I am now Christine Dorr!! Let me tell you that I totally look retarded every time I sign my name...I tend to forget that my name just changed :( Am I ever going to make it? Hope so !

So here are some pictures the photographer sent us already.......200 more are coming in 4 or 5 weeks...we can't wait :)

Love,

the Dorrs :)

Only in Aspen...

Earlier this year I had a face-to-face encounter with a brown bear at my jobsite. Today, at the same location, I encountered this fox. He had no fear and allowed me to get only a few feet away for some great pictures. Pretty cool.

- B

In love with the Yoga practice!!

Esak Garcia

So while we were in Boulder 2 months ago for the Yoga State Championship, Ben and I met the last year International yoga champion Esak Garcia and his wife. I was really amazed by what I saw that day!! :0 He's such the most amazing yogi ever!! His wife won the Championship in China a couple years ago. Just had a baby, and still looks perfection.....yoga transformed her body just like that!!....awesome!!

They are such a source of inspiration to me....it is just so incredible to see what people can do. Unbelievable.....I can't believe everything I saw that day....so many people going on stage to show what they could do! Even Ben and I were part of the competition.

Esak travels widely demonstrating the art of yoga, promoting yoga asana championships. Esak is married to Chau Kei Ngai, who was the 5th place International Ghosh Cup Champion in 2007 representing China. They live in Boulder, Colorado with their son Osiris. We actually met him too that day :) Here's the link if you are interested in seeing Esak and his pregnant wife doing some crazy yoga poses....it's pretty awesome looking. I can do a lot of those poses now even after only a year and an half of yoga practice......pretty incredible :)

http://www.esakgarcia.net/pictures/index.html

I'm really interested in going to Bikram yoga Teacher Training! It's pretty much $15,000.00....that's way too much money!!! 9 weeks, 2 classes a day + 8 hours reading and learning everyday. If you look at the pictures, you can see how many people go every year. It's usually between 300 and 350 people. And there are 2 teacher trainings a year....They actually have to turn down a lot of people because there is a maximum people accepted. The Fall training has just started in Vegas.....a lot of people were really disappointed with the location this year. Vegas sucks for such a Yoga Teaching Program because it is usually right on the beach in Mexico, Hawaii.....but Vegas...Seriously?? It's the total desert!

I really want to have my own yoga studio soon....so I'll have to sacrifice a lot to realize my dreams right? That's what we have to do in life to get what we want: Sacrifices

We'll, I'm working on it harder and harder everyday of my life. I've been feeling really weak this week. Maybe I pushed myself to hard by doing 2 classes a day. Waking up at 6:30 am, so I could catch the 7 am and the 9am in the same day. I did yoga for 16 days straight.....23 classes in 16 days straight actually. I started taking 2 classes of power yoga every week also which are making my muscles hurt like hell.......I'm taking the day off tomorrow, and I'm working a double anyway!!!

Well, all I can say about Bikram yoga is that it is the best thing that has ever happened to me!! I lost 29 pounds in less than 3 years. I just LOVE it!! That's what I wanna do of my life.....God bless you Bikram Yoga!! You're my life saver....BIG TIME!

Love
- Christine

Lovely weekend

Ben's parents were in Aspen last weekend and it was fantastic to see them. We all went to an
Italian restaurant called: L' hostaria. It was Ben's treat......so fabulously awesomely good!! Thanks babe!

Mark and Jo gave me tons of gifts for my birthday, and let me tell you that I fell in love with a pair of beautiful earrings!! I love them :) Thanks maman et papa Dorr :)

Rocky Mountain camping trip

So last week, Ben and I decided to go camping in the Rockies for the weekend. So, since I was working all day and all night Friday, Ben got pretty much everything ready for the trip. He's so great!!

We were supposed to leave right after the 7 am yoga class on Saturday...so, around 10 am, but Ben was invited to go golfing with uncle John, his brother Dave and Eric. I let him go for sure. I went to bed at 1:30 on Friday night so I could use a little more sleep.....so I woke up at 9:30 am and did the 10 am yoga class instead. It felt amazing like always.

I showered and got all my stuff ready before Ben got back home around 12:30. And we finally left the house. Cody was so excited to get in the truck not knowing where we were headed. It took us about 2 hours to get on top of the mountain , which was about the altitude of the tree line, which means where the trees don't grow because it's too high in elevation.

We went on a hike and Ben showed me around......we even discovered an old cabin. We could actually open the door and get inside. It was kinda gross in there!! 3 old beds were just decomposing in dust.....we thought hunters used to sleep in there maybe 25 or 50 years ago.

Anyway, after getting sunburned and after a little sweating, we headed to the camp area we had picked earlier and set up the tent and everything we needed. Took us 5 minutes! :) Then a number 2 was coming up, so for the first time I had to poop in a hole and then cover the whole thing with dirt!!! Ewww!! Ben said it was a safety thing all campers had to do so the bears would not come kill us. And YES, Ben dug the hole for me....hehe

So, at night, we made a fire and cooked up some food......there were so many mosquitos.....it was awful! I'm not scared of them, but I hate them......Cody was also trying to eat some.....he killed some butterflies and moths.....and of course he ate them. Good for him - lots of protein.

Eventually, we went to bed and slept horrible......shoulders, backs, everything was hurting since we didn't have a good mattress! Plus, it was awfully cold, so we didn't sleep much! We woke up, packed up everything again and started heading home. We pretty much wanted to sleep in our bed. I needed to sleep a couple hours since I was working a night shift on Sunday.

I would do it again, but next time we'll make sure we have all the materials needed to sleep tight :)

Here are some pictures of the weekend....short weekend!

The view we had from where we camped

The sunset

Climbed a tree wearing camo pajamas

Right after we set up everything

We went on a hike and Cody was so hot so, he found some snow and rolled himself in it for like 10 minutes

We took some pictures of a 100 year old silver mine

Ben, on top of a mountain....it looks cool!!

Nice flowers.....far away I am :)

The old cabin we found

Here I am , holding a disgusting broom and pretending to be cleaning the gross beds....yukk!

Ben was trying to fly I guess

Coco and I.....I love him

The end

Trip to Quebec!!!! :)

SO, I just got back from a 2 week trip in Quebec......which was so GREAT!! Ben got to be with me for the first part of the trip, and then I spent the rest of the time alone with my family. It was great to see everybody after an entire year living here in Aspen.

We got to see my dad, who I haven't seen in more than 5 years. We talked for a couple hours and it was a very positive experience. The same weekend, we all drove to Pohenegamook, the town I was raised in until about 5 years old. That was also nice because I got to see some more family including my grandparents.

All good things come to an END!!!

Now I'm back to RAINY Aspen, but I'm back with my wonderful, amazing, awesome, handsome fiance!!! Rrrrrrrrrrrrr :)

When I got here last night, I was really surprised because Ben got me flowers and redecorated the appartment!!!! So nice!!

Here are some pictures of THE trip.

This is a foot-bridge in Pohenegamook that separates Canada from the United States. It's weird because there are no customs officials.

A huge spider was just hanging out!!!

I risked my life and my mom was freaking out...hehe

Doing so yoga meditation by the river!

Ben and I, doing some yoga in my mom's backyard

Ben and my mom, Annie!!!



Dancing with my grandpa

My step-father Rock, Ben and I!!!

Family picture

Engagement pictures

We got our engagement pictures taken!!!