YoChi Evening with Addy & Joseph

Most of our crowd takes Yoga or Tai Chi from Addy Hernandez, and we have been doing it for about 5 years. Addy and her husband, Joseph, own and operate KI Fighting Concepts which is a comprehensive martial arts business. The business includes the studio where we do our Yoga but also their home where they do martial arts retreats, corporate training, video & on-line training, and various publications (see kifightinconcepts.com) . With all the martial arts work, we in the YoChi Group have complained that we need equal treatment. Consequently, we were invited to their home overlooking Lake Chelan for a wonderful evening. The view of the Lake from their house is amazing!

The house and grounds were very special. They have lived here for over 20 years and have worked hard to make the home and grounds their own and the result is very "Zen Like." We all loved their house and felt amazingly comfortable there.

Addy and Joseph are very fit as you would expect from martial arts masters but with this gym I think we would all do better with our fitness.

Our group works with Addy and we had not met Joseph prior to this evening. I think that initially Joseph was wondering 'what the Hell' Addy had done to him, but once Susie started us on a "bodily function" discussion he decided that we were pretty cool!


We want to thank both Addy & Joseph (and Blue, the Chocolate Lab) for a wonderful evening at their home!

Day at Lake Chelan

This past Saturday Marylou & Terry Johnson invited a lot of us to their place on Lake Chelan. We started off with an excellent Brunch around 11 AM and then went wine tasting at a couple of the many wineries located around the Lake. We started at Benson Winery where Susie and I purchased half a case of wine and the picture below from Bob Ogburn is at Vin du lac Winery where we had lunch and listened to music. If you look closely you can see Mac under the table looking for anything we might have dropped, and consequently, he missed the picture but did not miss the good times. We returned to the cabin around 4 PM and hung out until Marylou & Terry made us a wonderful Salmon Dinner. It was a great day and Mac slept all the way home. It is such hard work being cute all day!

Olympia Trip

Central Washington Hospital is in the process of issuing bonds to help pay for a new patient tower we want to build. We had a major roadblock with the State and had to travel to Olympia to ask the Washington State Health Facility Authority for an exception to its policy. Steve Jacobs, CFO, Mike Romine, Controller, Si Bautista, Board Chair, and Marc Heminger, Board Member all traveled to Olmpia where we met John Woodward from Merryl Lynch to represent our waiver request. We were successful so we are almost there with out financiang and a wonderful new tower!

Bay Area Weekend with Family

Susie and I got to spend the weekend with some of her brothers and sisters and their families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of course it was all about the nieces so we attended a dance recital and then ate and drank too much. It was a great weekend! Of course I did not have my camera so these pictures are all from my cell phone. We had to have ice cream and Zoe really enjoyed hers.




Here is Zoe in Granny Jo's walker.


Spending the day shopping and eating and shopping is really tiring.

Saturday was the Dance Recital and our little Zoe was the star!

I have other nieces who are also cute and nice, but they were not as coorporative when it came to picturs. Here is Alex smiling for me.

Although when they do smile they are really sweet and attractive!