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Learning Some New Tricks
I am trying to learn some new tricks & thought I’d share these sweet tutorials I found today 🙂
I’m not so sure I’ll be able to get the kick start, but I want to try the other 2 out tomorrow at Open Hooping. BTW Open Hooping is tomorrow night (and every tues. & thurs.) at the Tigon Academy in Watervliet, so feel free to join us!
Happy Hooping 🙂
Open Hooping
Lots of hooping coming to the Albany area in 2011! Not only did we have the first hooping fitness class at Maximum Fitness in Troy this past Saturday, there will also be weekly Open 
Hooping at the Tigon Academy in Watervliet! Open hooping will take place every Monday & Wednesday night at Tigon from 7:30pm – 8:30pm for ages 8 and up. Open Hooping is not a class, it is simply a time for hoopers to get together and learn, teach, and play with our hoops! It is open to everyone, even if you have never hooped before come give it a try! It costs just $5 per attendance for nonmembers of Tigon or $15 per month. Tigon is located at 711 3rd Ave. in Watervliet, NY. Hope to see you there!!
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Hoopy Happenings!!
There are some exciting things happening in the near future!! HulaFit starts up again this week, I will be attending the Big Apple Circus on Wednesday, and I’ll be hosting an open hoop happening this Saturday January 8th!!! The guys down at Maximum Fitness in Troy are nice enough to allow us local hoopers to use their martial arts room from 11 AM to 12PM this Saturday for open hooping and if we get even just a few people to come, it could become a regular..even WEEKLY event!
If you are a hooper in the Albany area and would like to join us it is just $5 for nonmembers of Max Fitness. Everyone is welcome, even if you have never hooped before. I will be bringing a few extra hoops so if you are interested in giving it a try please come! I am super excited to meet some local hoopers and share our tips & tricks & love of the hoop! If you are in the area and can not make the event, join the Albany Hoopers groups on HoopCity and Hooping.org to connect with other local hoopers and keep up with the happenings/events. If you are definitely planning on coming to Maximum Fitness this Saturday to spin with us (or have any questions), just leave a comment to let me know…hope to see you all this weekend! Happy Hooping 🙂
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Easy(ish) Mapley Treats!
Oops! I thought I had posted this weeks ago, but just found it in my drafts. This year was my fist Thanksgiving away from my family. I spent the holiday with Mark’s family down in Chemung, NY. Before we left I made some maple candy to bring to his dad. The recipe calls for pure maple sugar and his dad harvests his own maple syrup so I wanted to use his to make some mapley treats.
The recipe I used looked pretty easy, but it was my first time really using a candy thermometer and even though I paid close attention to the temperature it still didn’t turn out so easy. Sugar is tricky! They tasted good, but the candy started hardening up too fast and only got about 5 of the molds filled before it was too thick to spoon out. I heated it back up, but they came out looking a little frosty. Oh well, I still thought they tasted great! VERY sugary. It is pretty much like eating maple flavored sugar so it doesn’t take much to satisfy that sweet tooth. I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of them before they were all eaten up…I guess that is a good sign!
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I found a picture of my first attempt at making maple candy. The thermometer broke and glass got into the candy so it wasn’t edible, but I got a picture of it cooling off in the molds. Too bad they had to go right in the trash. 😦
A Day on the Farm
Recently we spent the day at Liberty Ridge Farm for their annual Farm Festival. I can’t believe I have never heard of this wonderful place before! They have so much fun stuff to do (mazes, pumpkin shooter, life size gerbil wheels, BUNNY TOWN) and Schaghticoke is sooo close to where I live. Although a lot of the activities were geared towards kids, Mark and I still had a blast at the fest!
My favorite part was the Rabbit Town of course. It was a little western town they built for their bunnies to live in with tunnels that connected all the buildings underground. It is super cute! I want to have my own bunny town some day. I’m thinking instead of a western town I’ll have a candyland bunny town hehe how cute would that be?! The camera on my phone wasn’t really cooperating with me that day, but I managed to get a couple pics out of it. I can only imaging what people were thinking about me taking a million pictures of the bunnies. I didn’t mind. I was too focused on the cuteness.
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