Thank you :-)

Hi all,

Thanksgiving is coming up tomorrow. I think this might be my favorite holiday as I really value the concept of taking the time to be grateful. Well, I guess there will be no turkey for me, ...but I'm sure I'll find some other goodies ;-) Yellow mangos, sweet pomelo and fresh coconut water is even better! ...and I've also found out how to make raw chocolate :-)

Last weekend I was at a raw-food demonstration day at one of the health food stores (Erewhon Market). There were lots of food demonstrations and samples, and I got to taste some new raw stuff and meet some of the movers and shakers of the raw food craze.

The movie "Fast-food Nation" was disappointing, but watching James Bond at the graumans auditorium at the China Theatre was a big experience. This is the most famous movie theatre in the world with it's forecourt (read: the Mecca for anyone who loves the movies) with hand- & footprints of the Hollywood Stars set in cement. Grauman's Chinese Theatre was built in 1926. Since its opening the Chinese Theatre has been the site of more gala movie premieres than any other theatre.

I also went to see a brilliant and original animation movie about singing and dancing penguins. It was very funny and the animation was sooo cute. Irresistible! I would say the year's best animated film. So go watch the movie and sing a song ...or swing those Happy Feets! Just make sure you follow your heart.... :-) After watching "Happy Feets" my feets was screaming for salsa. It's a while since I've been out dancing now, so it felt great to shake that body a little.


Asgeir and myself enjoy trekking. We usually go hiking all year in Norway, and now Asgeir just bought a tent so that we can go camping here too. Actually we decided to go camping right away(!) ...and put up the tent in Asgeirs living-room. Another good thing about being a raw-fooder is that you don't have to take the risk about barbecuing indoors...


What other crazy stuff have I done lately???... Well, we went to Magic Mountain which is a theme park with a huge collection of rollar-costers. Basically this means standing in line for 2 hours to get a 2 minutes roller-coast ride (which is quite crazy by itself...).


At Magic Mountain you find the tallest, fastest, largest looping, longest flying roller coasters on planet earth! Among others you find Southern California's first floorless mega-coaster and the world's first four-dimensional coaster (riders race in vehicles that spin independently 360-degrees forwards or backwards on separate axis). You kind of get to Xperience the Xtreme! It's a "non-stop" high speed (85 miles-per-hour at the fastest) adventure looming 255 feet in the air (at the tallest point) with daring "butterflies-in-your-stomach" plunges like corkscrews, double barrel boomerang turns, huge sweeping spirals, zero-gravity "floating" hills and drops, and vertical loops diving into tunnels shrouded in total darkness... I don't know if that gave you a sense of what that 2 minutes adrenaline kick was like, but if you think you've experienced the giant among coasters before... think again!














We also went skydiving (without a parachute!!). They pulled us (I don't know if I have the guts to do it solo) up by a wire and we (read: I) were supposed to pull a string to cause the free fall (about 60 mile-per-hour). Hanging 150 feet above ground waiting to pull the string I heard the instructions from one of the matchstick men down there; "3, 2, fly!! .......or did they say "3, 2, die!"....?????? That's what I call fly at the speed of fair. Though it may not sound very pleasurable it really was a great experience feeling the freedom of hanging in the air. I might actually put wings on the list when writing my letter to Santa Claus later...
This weekend I'm going to San Fransisco. I'm really looking forward to going. With its steep, inclined streets and trams gliding by I believe San Francisco is a charming city.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Caïla

...listening to the funky local radio-station (fm 94.7 the wave - www.947wave.com) hoping to win a tour to Costa Rica or Hawaii...