Checking In

Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. It’s now just 2.5 weeks till our BIG trip so I’m spending all free time finalizing our plans and putting all the info into tripit. It’s a big job but Kevin assures me it will be well worth it when we can access all our travel info from our phones (even without mobile reception). We’re also watching lots of movies/TV shows in preparation. Yesterday I watched Rob Roy  and later we watched some Kings & Queens of England and finally a History of England. Oh, and we also saw Robin Hood (which kind of counts) on Friday night.

In the last few weeks I’ve been trying to learn to the new DSLR. Slowly I “think” I’m getting it but my mind is very slow to catch on. Here are some of my fav. photos. The assignment to catch moving targets – playing in shutter priority mode.

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A Puppy Party

On Saturday afternoon we had a little afternoon tea party for the pups. Rosie turned 4 last Tuesday and Bailey turned 2 on Thursday.

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We were joined by Mum and Dad… who came with edible presents.

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Of course there was a birthday cake – lemon syrup made by Amy.

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The dogs polished off their portion in no time flat.

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We all enjoyed the party, esp. the guests of honor. After eating and playing with their new toys, they were all tuckered out. I swear Bailey is one of the strangest dogs in the world :-).

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Pure Indulgence

On Friday night Kevin and I went to see Robin Hood. I LOVED movie but the extra exciting part was getting to see it in a Gold Class Cinema. It was my first time (Kevin has been before) and we were able to use a gift card we had been given a few month ago – but I was waiting for the right (long) movie to use it. Talk about a movie experience. I love everything about it. (except the cost – though for us it was free 🙂 ).

Check out the seats…

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They are fully reclining lounges and before the movie starts you order the food you want (from a menu) and what time you’d like it bought to you. Our movie started at 6pm so we ordered a dip trio and bruschetta to come out 6.15pm. Food was lovely but overpriced (for what we got). Later we had tea/smoothie. And finally a ice cream sundae – which was a bit difficult to eat in a dark theatre – but yummy none-the-less.

Definitely a wonderful experience and pure indulgence.

Catching UP

Sorry I’ve been remiss in my posts the last few days. Lets just say they haven’t been the most stellar as far as healthy foods go. So I’m going to do a quick catch up for Wed and Thursday.

Wednesday started out we me skipping my workout!. I had planned to go but instead it went into the too hard basket. Instead I had some tea and cruskits with spreadable cheese.

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Breakfast was a wholegrain crumpet with some of honey I got from Mum. I’d really been feeling like this but didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

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I ended up going shopping for clothes (since they were on sale in Target) and was very happy to get a pair of jeans that fit :-). Certainly takes away the pressure to fit into my current jeans before our trip – it was starting to stress me out somewhat. Before leaving I picked up a skim iced chocolate from Gloria Jeans – which I drank in the car on the way home. As you can see it was cold, wet and windy day.

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With the weather so yuck I needed something warm for lunch – leftover pasta – how easy was that!

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I’ve conveniently forgotten what I snacked on in the afternoon.Though I did have a bowl of homemade Minestrone soup.

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Dinner was Amy’s favourite – Pumpkin cannelloni (made as a lasagne) and some corn.

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Thursday breakfast was cheese on toast. I only ate one piece.

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When the rain stopped the dogs and I headed out on an hour long walk, arriving home just after the rain started again. Time for a green smoothie – haven’t had one for a few days as I was out of spinach.

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Lunch was a sweet bean burrito wrap. Always delicious.

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Once again, we won’t talk about afternoon snacks but there was another Gloria Jeans skim iced chocolate consumed while Christy was at singing lessons. Dinner was Sweet Potato Rissoto.

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And supper was a half key lime cookie (bought from Gloria Jeans) and the rest of the rocky road. The cookie was as delicious as it sounded in the shop :-).

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As you can see it’s not been all bad but not the best either. I’ll keep plodding onwards….