A great weekend

We had a great weekend but my eating has once again gone down the tubes. I don’t know what it is but I really have no motivation to watch what I am eating – can’t be bothered tracking or counting points. I can’t jump on my scales at the moment due to the renovations still happening in the bathroom and I can’t get to them but I know that I am starting to put on weight as my pants are feeling a little more snug than what they should. I need to find some motivation to get back on track before this gets completely out of hand !!!!

Onto better things – had a great weekend. Al is busy with the vanity in our bathroom – unfortunately it isn’t going quite as smoothly as it should but nonetheless, at least it is moving forward. He was busy with that for most of Saturday (after our weekly muffin and visit to the library along with a few other things that needed to be done). I was busy with sanding down our out-door furniture which is turning into a bigger job than I had originally anticipated (why is it always like that – jobs never turn out to be smaller than you thought – always bigger ?????) – anyway, I made quite a good start on the four benches, then ran out of sandpaper and by the time Al got back from Bunnings where he had gone to get something else for the vanity, I didn’t have too long to carry on before we had to stop to get ready for work.

Sunday saw the three of us climb to the top of Mt Warning (well the two of them climbed to the top of Mt Warning) as I had to stop about 100m short of the summit given my adversity to heights and the fact that the last 200m you had to pull yourself up the rock bits on a chain !!!!!! I got nearly ½ way up the chain section before I just couldn’t carry on any more and had to sit on the sit like a wuss and wait for them to go up and then come down again. Al did say that, after having done it himself, he doesn’t think I would have been able to go much further than I did – I was in the horrifying position of not being able to continue up and not knowing if I would be able to get down !!!!!! Anyway, by the time they got back to me I had calmed down enough (well nearly enough) to continue down with help from both of them. K was very concerned and kept on patting me on the back !!!!! It is a 9km round trip with they suggest should take 4-5 hours – we went up in 2 hours and down in 1 hr 20mins – we probably should have got down a fair bit quicker except K had a blister on her big toe and my knees started to play up so we had to slow down a little for the last 2kms. It was great when we finished – we all felt so good at having made it to the top (nearly to the top for me !) and back again. K did have one slip on the way up and we thought we may have to turn around but she walked a little on the knee she hurt and said she would continue – she now has two lovely bruises (one on her knee and one on her thigh) to show for her trip up the mountain !!!! We wanted to take a photo when we left but the batteries in the camera ran out when Al switched the camera on. Here is a website if you would like to see where we went www.tropicalnsw.com.au/nationalparks/warning.html - if any of you are in the area you should try to do the walk – it really is good. I have to say that given our lack of exercise over the past few weeks / months, about 10 minutes into the walk I thought I was going to die but I just put one foot in front of the other and didn’t think about how much further I had to go.

We drove around for a while when we were finished and then landed up having fish and chips from a place in Tugun – it is the best calamari I have ever had – I think we will definitely be going back there again another time. They did say that they deliver Thursday to Sunday so K was all excited saying we could get them to deliver – seeing as they are about 40 minutes away from where we live, I said I didn’t think that they would deliver to us but she wrote their phone number down ‘just in case’ !!!!!!
That is it for today – I think we may go for a walk or cycle tonight – my calves are a little tight today from the walk (and we forgot to stretch when we got back to the car !!!!) – K and I just flopped onto our seats and none of us even gave a thought to stretching – I am paying for that today when I have had to go up and down the stairs at work.

TFTD : Don’t count your life by the number of breaths you take, count your life by the number of moments which take your breath away.

TIAGF : The soreness that comes from knowing I have exercised