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Friday began at Auntie Lyba�s, where everyone woke up late at 9, which means I woke up at 11. We then had breakfast which consisted of an array of scrumptious pastries, cereals, and fruits. Today�s meditation was going to be out in the garden where we would be doing paper burning. We ended up writing 2 pages worth of negativity and burning it. The Aunties told us to drink lots of water so we wouldn�t get dehydrated, resulting into a vicious drinking contest which goes without saying that we had to stop a number of times to use the loo. Hitting horrible traffic changed our plans from going to Milwaukee to Lake Michigan. So we ate lunch at Subway, which knocked us back a while, meaning we got at the place around 5. It was a beautiful park overlooking the lake. We sat down and immediately got to the bhajans and giving realization. It wasn�t one of our most successful days in the number of people that received their self-realization. After a few hours the sun was setting so we hit the beach. We did foot soak in the delicious water and played a round of the infamous game Bibbidy-Bibbidy-Bop, which originated from Austria.

A BBQ awaited us at Uncle Tom�s and Auntie Francesca�s home with many of the Chicago, Bloomington and Peoria, IL yogis in attendence. The food was hot off the BBQ and was a pretty gourmet dish, I�m not gonna lie to you! We had shrimp, and lamb and chicken and all sorts of dishes. The collectives exchanged presents, had a few speeches and thank-yous. The yuv shaktis hung out in the little kid�s room and played the quick answer game. Which is pretty much just one person saying 2 things real quick, like �blue or black�, �cold or hot�, or �Laxmi or Savita�, and the other person picking one as fast as they can without any thought. It�s supposedly the �subconscious� speaking out. As you can probably imagine, it�s a dangerous game to play without supervision, but an absolutely hilarious game to play never the less.

Music was trickling upstairs from the basement, so we went to see what was happening. Bhajans were being played full stream by none other than Ruthvick, an amazing singer and harmonium player, who by the way, just got married to Gisela from Brazil little over a year ago. The yuvashakti had been dying to finally have their dance party, so we didn�t even hesitate to jump up and dance at the first Quwaali and got the whole room in motion. It was getting late so we left earlier then we would have liked, because we had a big day ahead of us tomorrow. But that doesn�t mean that we were tired by any means, at least not all of us. So we went back to Auntie Luba�s and ate some small bites. I was throwing grapes into my mouth and others joined in, and soon enough we were all chucking grapes into each others mouths, from all sides and angles of the room. It�s funny how we can be entertained by such random things.

Yassir, Sonia�s brother, was cracking our necks and backs after, cause he said he had taken some class for it�or so we thought� dun dun dun! Nah just kiddin he was actually pretty good at it. At this point we were all well tired, so we made our way to our cozy sleeping bags.

This is Savita on, �The Realize America Tour�, thank you for listening, and tune in for tomorrows edition of, The Tour!

Over and out!