April 3rd: Favorite City and today's fitness

I'm starting in reverse tonight and going to post my daily fitness first since I have a feeling I may ramble for quite awhile about my favorite city.

For the challenges today I completed: 11 lunges, 35 squats, 12 sec lunge hold, 20 jumping jacks, and 20 deep lunges.
I also completed an arm toning work out: How to Tone your arms in 7 days

I also did 20min of yoga.

Now for tonight's blog challenge, favorite city. My favorite city is London. I have traveled extensively throughout the US and to England, France, and Italy. Of all the places I have been London is the only one that has ever felt like home, even though I've never had the opportunity to live there. I was lucky at 16 to be awarded a scholarship that allowed me the opportunity to study abroad. The majority of my trip was spent in England. I have been fascinated with the history of the city since I was a child so getting a chance to visit was a dream come true. Stepping off the plane at Heathrow was an experience unlike any I had had before. It was like a weight had been lifted, like I had finally come home after being gone too long. I spent hours during my visit just wandering the city and soaking up everything it had to offer. I think what I love most about London is the dichotomy of the city. It is a thoroughly modern capitol city, reaching ever forward to the future, but at the same time it fully embraces and elevates and drowns in its past. Walking those surrounded by those older buildings you can't help but remember all those that came before. Back to the days of Shakespeare, William the Conquer, the Romans and earlier. It is a humbling experience, and it makes you feel so small in the scheme of things, but at the same time you feel so utterly connected to everything. You realize you are standing where so much as happened and you know so much more will happen after you are gone and it makes you feel so alive! You become aware of how you really can do anything how all possibilities are open to you. That's what London did for me, breathed a breath of passion into my soul. The city itself has a heartbeat you can feel as move through it. It is alive and it makes you feel so much more. It is because of that passion that I will always hold out hope and dream that someday, someway I will get my chance to live in my beloved city.

Here is my favorite pic from my exchange trip.

Picadilly Circus