Sleepless in salt lake city

The title of this blog is stolen from one of my friends blog...

It seems my new time management skills are working and within weeks time I was able to get into my new daily routine.

After four hours of productive reading on Saturday morning I was suppose to go for marathon practice, but it's snowing in Salt Lake City. Can somebody remind Mr.Weather that it's spring time ? I dropped my practice and decided to update my blog.

Meditation, Yoga, Gym, running, Hiking , reading, Guitar, Rock climbing , Volunteering for non-profit animal organizations etc etc... and list goes on ... these are the things which are going on in my life currently and they are eating most of my time other than work time.

I am running short of time to achieve my goals in my life.I enjoy doing all these activities which I mentioned, but sometimes I think that I should not always do the activities which makes me happy. I need to focus on achieving my goals, for that I have to prepare myself to sacrifice some of the activities. It's really very hard :)

Other option is reducing 9% of sleep time and increasing 9% of meditation time which will give me an extra hour for my studies.....calculate how much hour I sleep ? haha well this is typical percentage problem for GMAT.

After increasing my practice in the meditation I am experiencing the benefits of it. This is helping me to become more organized and focused in my life. Hopefully if time permits I will be writing another post separately for Meditation in coming days.


Caio

Adam's Canyon Hike.

"No pain No gain" after crying whole summer because I moved to one of the beautiful place on west side & not able to go for single Hike in the mountain. Instead I was spending lot of time doing my physiotherapy exercise for my broken Ankle, reading the books instead of going to grant canyon & other places around, walking on the crutches instead of enjoying beaches, watching the movies at home instead of sky diving ...I did missed all the summer activities.
I was waiting for green signal from my physiotherapist to go on Hike...I was bit jealous while watching the pictures of my trekking group back in India



Finally I decided to skip the Fall color trip organized by my friends in SLC & decided to go for hike. I was very excited for this Hike. Almost after 1 year :)

Day was perfect, weather was perfect, location was perfect, Hike was not that hard.. I was little worried because of my ankle. We started around 1 pm. it was 5 miles hike both way at Adam's canyon.
It was really a fun hike..This hike reminded me about my Lohagad hike in Mumbai which I went with Dinesh & pradeep back in India.


I was having all the required things for the hike. Me & Kate went to the grocery store to buy some fruits in case we need some energy :) while shopping at grocery store Kate told me some very interesting stories when we were passing by a "weight loss section" in the store :) ..we picked up some fruits, Carrots, tomato, sports bars.

Scott was leading the hike...Scott knows every thing about this trail. He was telling all of us the stories of his old hikes, new bike group, his family matter & all ..he was showing all off the good spot for the pictures & sharing the mountain stories & future hikes.


We were moving slowly towards the destination enjoying the nice fall color around. thought out the hike there was a waterfall which was one of the best thing I liked about this hike. Trail was pretty clean but at some places there was some trash which Kate was collecting in her trash bag .. :)



when we reached at the middle of the mountain the view of the Layton & lake was awesome. You can see the lake touching the sky.


when we reached the destination there was beautiful water fall. we took some rest enjoyed the waterfall. After 2 hours of hike this "Walking talking Philly chick" was
keeps every one entertained with her non-stop interesting stories about her hospital, Politics,Yoga etc.. from where she got so much of energy ?

Daine & Andrea was busy enjoying views from different angle taking pictures & they got some interesting game called as Geotech ( not sure about the name ) it was something like treasure hunt. I need to find out more on this.

After a wonderfull 4 hours hike we decided to go to McCool for dinner. I was real hungry :) I wanted some enrgy for Garba..
After the hike I directly went to the Garba aound 8.00 pm where Sheetal & Snehanshu were coming all the way from San-Jose. Everyone was in traditional wear for Garba except me :( .. I did Garba till 10.30 in the night & My ankle was not at all bothering me..

Garba was really awesome .. the live band which came from Baroda they played all old songs like Khai ke pan banaras wal & Bhangra :)

It was real nice weekend .. I enjoyed..

I already have my next weekend planed .. for Boweling , Hunted House, Halloween Party & Another hike to big cottonwood canyon.