I am so sore. Yesterday, Wayne and I walked...A LOT. I felt like I walked all day. My calves, thighs, and even my butt is sore! We had a great time in Atlantic City at the convention center and then later at the Tropicana. At the car show, we saw so many beautiful cars. At the Tropicana I discovered a slot machine with the neatest game! Although I'm not a gambler as I will only put so much of my own money in those machines I was able to play for almost TWO HOURS with the original $20 bill I fed it! Wayne didn't gamble (he likes the craps (or is that crap? oh well...whatever!) tables but he wasn't in the mood) and just looked over my shoulder. Actually, he said he was having fun just watching me have fun and watching all the people walk by (I was playing at the end of a row). On our way home, we ate at a favorite seafood restaurant in Somers Point (NJ). We didn't get home until about 11:00pm! I was so sore that it was difficult for me to fall asleep and now I'm awake and "the kids" will be over in about an hour and a half--they're eating breakfast with us and then we're going to walk on their lot they put a deposit on and hopefully they will start building their new house in a few months (of course they have to sell the house they're in now). Wayne is still asleep...sleeping like a baby!
Jean, I just might have liked your prime rib--I have a problem with it when its served raw looking...and most of the time it is! I'm happy for you that you were on program. Me?
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Sharon, the weather was just fine. It started out cloudy but the sun came out. It was windy on the boardwalk--usually is in the winter...but the temperature was in the 40's. Cold. How are you doing on program this weekend? Me?
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Okay
Maggie, let's talk about this
FOCUS: I think my
partner forgot about that! He was more like my
partner-in-crime!
First of all, both of us ate our usual breakfast of cereal, milk, and juice (5 points) before we left. So far, so good. Then we stopped for coffee (well, I got fat-free cappucino--3 points). Next thing I know Wayne is eating those sugar white powdered mini donettes (Hostess) at 1 point a piece...I ate 1 (another point); he ate the rest (5 more points for him). We get to Atlantic City about noon. We park at the Tropicana, walk through the casino to the boardwalk to proceed on towards the OLD convention center. We find out that its empty! NO CAR SHOW! Fortunately there is ONE LONE PERSON standing at a booth. We haven't been to that car show in years. Gosh, we hadn't been keeping up with Atlantic City...and come to find out there is a NEW CONVENTION CENTER! So...we're directed to take the trolley from there to the new place. We do. Then we stand in a long line for tickets. And I guess we walked around for 2 hours because the next thing I know its 2:00pm and neither one of us has had lunch...sooo...Wayne says, "you stand here; I'll get us some food" and that's what I do--prop up a wall (it may fall after all!
) and he comes back with the THREE HUGE HOT DOGS, A LARGE ORDER OF FRIES, AND A REAL COKE! First of all, I haven't drank a REAL COKE in years. My body only knows caffeine-free diet Coke and I think my body went into shock or something from that first sip because it was downhill from there until I got home when it came to food!
FOCUS?
I ate the largest hot dog I've seen in a long while (keep in mind I've been eating those skinny fat-free things that Oscar Meyer makes), blew caution to the wind and proceeded to help
my partner polish off those fries (keep in mind I've been eating BAKED french fries and not FRIED)! Well, we walked for another 3 hours at the car show...and FINALLY we leave to hop on another trolley to go back to the OLD convention center and then walk back down the boardwalk to the Tropicana. And that is where I parked my body for a couple of hours...spending my $20 bill at a slot machine. We leave there to go find our car--which
my partner wanted to go to the SECOND level of the parking garage when I knew full well we were parked at 3A! (My
partner lost his
FOCUS you see!) Thanks to ME we find our car and went to the restaurant. Well, by then my body has enjoyed such fine dining cuisine that day that by the time we got seated at 8:30pm both my
partner and I were so
UN-FOCUSED we ate FRIED shrimp, FRIED fish, FRIED scallops, and I'm sure that crab cake I ate was FRIED too! However,
Maggie, you would've been proud of me--I did NOT eat all my french fries or my coleslaw nor the blueberry muffins (that were brought to the table earlier) and NEITHER my
partner or I had any dessert.
And then we waddled to the car and drove home...where I went searching for Tums...
But all in all, it was a great day!
Gail