January 2015

What a start to 2015 – taking a 9 day break from Botox injections

A trip to New Zealand

We visited with a tour group – a bunch of students with teachers studying nature and how it affects our human bodies and lives – a relationship to energy healing such as acupuncture.

We visited both North and South Islands and we were there for about 7 days.

You can click on the pictures below to see the larger version of the picture.

Lessons

One of the most important parts of this trip was lessons and lectures about healing, health, purpose, and how it relates to observations in nature

a meeting a night not in Modesto DSCN2253 — Lectures late into the night.

a outdoor meeting not in Modesto DSCN4121 — Lectures and lessons out in the open – one with nature.

New Zealand Meeting — Picture credit: 張書菁

DSCN1939 — Lessons along a path. Perhaps a path in life? Here we see a rock representing Yang and Yin. This is much of how our bodies work as well as how the universe operates.

Serious night time discussions and reflections. Picture credit: 張書菁

non Modesto Meeting 2 — Serious night time discussions and reflections. Picture credit: 張書菁. I’m in the picture – near the side wall toward the back. (Hard to see, but I’m there).

New Zealand Sights starting with Christchurch

a girl on the wall christchurch DSCN0857 — Christchurch mural of woman on the wall. Her pupils have different colors. I almost thought it was a Botox commercial – no wrinkles!

a exercising tammy christchurch day 2 DSCN0890 - Copy — Morning Qi-Gong Exercise in Christchurch

a bird looking qi gong exercise day 2 christchurch DSCN0949 - Copy — Morning Qi-gong in Christchurch

a modern day ruins DSCN0830 - Copy — Christchurch, New Zealand

a Christchurch earthquake building DSCN0772 - Copy - Copy — This appears to be an auditorium. This is the view from our first restaurant in New Zealand: Coriander – an Indian restaurant.

a reflection on the water day 2 christ church DSCN1137 - Copy - Copy — Christchurch Avon River – Punting

a vegan choices abound DSCN1019 — Lots of vegan choices in our Novotel Hotel in Christchurch

a christchurch lulu lemon DSCN0805 - Copy — Christchurch Lululemon everywhere – even in New Zealand. Yep, that’s Dr. Tammy Wu inside the store.

a mirror lakeDSCN2990 between Te Anau and Queenstown - Copy — Mirror Lake Te Anau

a plain DSCN2903 - Copy with text — Between the mountains near Lake Te Anau

a boulders DSCN3370 - Copy — **Moeraki Boulders.** 60 million years old. Some think these are fossilized dinosaur eggs.

Mount Cook – my favorite part of the New Zealand trip

Kea point trail, Mount Cook. I like how this path is off to the side and it looks like it leads right into that snow capped mountain.

a mount cook selfie 1 DSCN1654 - Copy — Aoraki Mount Cook – at Kea point after a hike which was about 1.75 miles from the Hermitage Hotel to this point.

a walk away from kea point DSCN1788 - Copy — On the Kea point trail in the Aoraki Mount Cook Region of New Zealand.

Dr. Tammy Wu and I ate breakfast at Kea point, Aoraki Mount Cook, New Zealand. Kea point was the end of the Kea point trail. That's a glacier in the background. — Dr. Tammy Wu and I ate breakfast at Kea point, Aoraki Mount Cook, New Zealand. Kea point was the end of the Kea point trail. That’s a glacier in the background.

a tammy mount cook DSCN1833 - Copy text — Dr. Tammy Wu

a flying DSCN1809 - Copy — Flying and walking like a penguin…

Heart Medicine comes from this plant. I found this plant growing wild all by itself on the side of the mountain. — A medicine comes from this plant. I found this plant growing wild all by itself on the side of the mountain. The medicine is not Botox. It is a heart medicine.

We made it to the top! Well, just our logo made it to the top of the mountain.

Aoraki Mount Cook approach to Kea point, New Zealand video which I made:

Penguin Place Dunedin, New Zealand. A place to see Yellow Eyed Penguins

A rare bird - yellow eyed penguin. — A rare bird – yellow eyed penguin.

a penguin eating head of another DSCN3592 - Copy — Penguin Place in New Zealand. Yellow eyed Penguins. The pups are the furry ones.

Penguin Video which I took and placed on YouTube:

a carvin street wear DSCN3328 - Copy — Carvin / Calvin – close enough. This was in the city of Gore.

10947926_887794391240612_1032069379_o — Even more important than Botox for preventing wrinkles would be sun protection! Notice the hat!

a boat pic of me DSCN3185 - Copy — Milford Sound

a sigvaris sock DSCN2878 - Copy near lake TeAnau — We sell Sigvaris compression socks in Modesto, just like they do in New Zealand – it helps to prevent deep vein thrombosis

DSCN2880 — Alternative medicine in a New Zealand pharmacy

Hot Springs. The different colors of the earth are the result of different mineral concentrations.

Wai-O-Tapu Hot Springs Video:

a big trees DSCN4126 - Copy — California Sequoia trees in New Zealand

a forest DSCN4156 - Copy — California trees in New Zealand

a I was thursty DSCN4282 - Copy — I saw this bottle line up near the garbage area of a New Zealand restaurant. Nope these are not empty Botox bottles.

DSCN4238 — These are kind of like the pampus grass we have here in California.

Bungee jumping originated off this river and this very location in New Zealand

Bungee Jumping Video I captured:

a lamb DSCN4363 - Copy — Dr. Wu and her little lamb. We witnessed a lady feed a sheep with her bare hand. As the sheep licked her hand, she said “this is yucky!” Then she proceeded to wipe her hand clean on the torso of the sheep. Great use of wool. We’re just glad Dr. Tammy Wu didn’t get her plastic surgery fingers bitten.

Acupuncture School in New Zealand

Update: We Moved in March 2019

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I figured it’s time to start a new Modesto Botox Babble collection of topics. I wanted to start fresh, so I started this new blog. Previous Botox Blog is located at this link.

New Modesto Botox Blog for 2015

This new Modesto Botox Blog is written on a WordPress platform with the 2015 theme. The home page for this new Modesto Botox Blog is this link. And to make things a bit different, this blog would have a static front page. And the most recent Modesto Botox blog postings would be on a different page – entitled “Modesto Botox current topics.”

Purple – the color of Botox?

I chose some purple to highlight this blog because much of the Botox marketing material and the Botox packaging comes with the color purple on it. It might not make much sense to anyone else except to other Botox injectors.

Capitalization of the word BOTOX?

Technically BOTOX (R) is all capital letters. But it sometimes looks like yelling, so I won’t capitalize it all the time.

Month: January 2015

Modesto Botox Injector starts the New Year in New Zealand