No pictures today!
Only noteworthy thing I did today was my first time going to Ratner's.
The manager recognized me and even knew my name (for those of you who know it - that's quite a feat for an American!) and signed me in without problems. He gave me a lock but I did have to come back to get an explanation how it works - it wasn't quite like my locker back in high school and even that was a while back. But I did get the hang of it, got changed and first went to the "rotunda", that's the circle of exercising machines actually overlooking the lobby (you can see parts of it on the pictures of Ratner below). Almost every one of the thirty machines there has either an individual TV (yay, maybe I will get to watch 24 here!) or a screen in front of it, that makes riding the exercise bike feel more like a video game than a workout.
After about a mile on the treadmill I wanted to explore more of the place and went downstairs to the weight room. I trained a bit and then felt an itch to try if I could handle a basketball after 7 years of not having touched one.
I got my driver's license - the girl at the reception trading balls for IDs didn't seem too bewildered by it - and received my ball. It seemed small. The gym that I had seen people play basketball in when I was coming in now suddenly had a volleyball net and girls with volleyballs trickling in. Bugger .. the schedule next to the gym said "varsity volleyball" for this time slot. But the schedule also said "auxiliary gym". After a bit of wandering around I found the main gym which of course, also had six basketball baskets.
Not feeling ready to participate in the game right away, I shot some hoops by myself and was surprised to find that it actually seems like riding a bike.
After close to an hour on the court I had to get going, since Trillian was ever more likely to arrive back from her trip to town that she did today. I made a 15-minute stop in their sauna, but even though their thermometer showed 210°, it felt like no more than a warm summer breeze in there. Oh well.
The place rocks anyway.
Hope I get to go there during the coming weeks.
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