Bitter Sweet Evening

IT WAS A FABULOUS DAY AND A BITTER SWEET evening. I am so excited about going home and I will miss the family I have here when I leave tomorrow. We all gathered at the pool and sang and partied with the Biggest Loser Contestants until I called Uncle and headed to my little home away from home to finish packing and get to bed. It will be a long day tomorrow. I have so much to add to the blogg, pictures, results of my fittness summary and a lot of stories, but they will have to wait until tomorrow or Monday . I'm tired !!!! Good night for now......I will be homeward bound tomorrow at 10:48 AM....

AH..It is almost time to go home and believe me I am ready. I have had an incredible time and have met the most extraordinary people who will remain in my memory forever, but it is time to return home to my remarkable family and dog Sasha. I miss them so….I’ll be looking for you Skip at the Asheville airport Sunday with a big smile.

Now about today. I was still recovering from my illness so I hiked but took it very easy at the beach. The weather was fabulous and I could have stayed there all day. When we returned many of us did a yoga stretch class which is taught by Tina and is the best stretch class I ever attended.

Then of course it was lunch and afterwards a small group of us were taken to a grocery store and we were shown the good and the ugly of grocery shopping, oh there were so many tempting items… I then did my last load of laundry here and went to my last Disco Jam class. What a hoot. I so can’t dance anymore, but it is fun and a good calorie burn. Speaking of calories, I get weighed and measured tomorrow at 6:15. I hope the numbers are good, but no matter what this has been such an incredible experience and I’ve learned so much. It truly has been a life changing experience and I want to return sometime in the future, after Paris of course. I guess this is it for today. I will post pictures as always

Another eventful day

Well today was full of all kinds of ups and downs. I really didn’t feel well and knew I had a urinary tract infection. Not fun and of course I just kept hoping it would go AWAY !!! But of course it didn’t, so I hiked and then asked if they could get me to Urgent Care in West Lake. So that went well I was able to get in and out fairly fast and have an antibiotic and azo stat to help keep me comfortable.




I also had my RMR ( a test that shows how many calories I burn at rest) done . According to the test my metabolism is fast and it is hard to believe I ever got this fat. Hummmm. I also had a VO2 test and this shows how your body uses oxygen during exercise and no I don’t do too well in this category. The good thing about this is I should be able to control my weight loss better with this information. We will see……



Now my problems are small compared to one of the girls on the hike with me today. A girl feel on the trail and broke her ankle in two places. The problem started with the fact she was a long way from a road and they had to carry her out of the mountain on a litter. It was kind of like Lake Lure here when it came to the response to our emergency. There all kinds of vehicles on the side of the road and it took them a while to get to her. They even brought the search and rescue team. This is the second broken ankle in three weeks so I feel pretty lucky I’ve stayed injury free so far. This isn’t a club med and believe me you do have to be tough to survive. I have only two more hikes and one is on the beach so I hope I will stay injury free.

The Pacific Ocean is visible from here. So much prettier in person

The red trucks are just a few of the vehicles that came to help...

I guess that is all the news today and I am ready to hit the sack so until tomorrow…GOOD NIGHT

Hit the Wall !!!!

I hit the wall today plus I just felt sick. I didn’t sleep well and all this together made me take the afternoon off. I hiked and I did stretch class, ate lunch and then just crashed for several hours. Hopefully this will help me push really hard the next three days. I think I’ll go do a class at 4:30 before dinner and then maybe this will help me sleep tonight. I think I’m just too eager to go home.

Our hike was at Malibu Creek on the Reagan Ranch. I’ve done it a couple of times and it is pretty and I enjoyed the outdoors.

Tuesday all over again

Today was Ok, I think I'm just ready to go home!!We hiked Rocky Oaks and truthfully I slacked. I hiked with Peggy, one of the people I met online prior to coming here. We chatted and solved all the worlds problems during the two and a half hours. Then it was as always four classes and our meals and now I'm ready for bed.Good Night !!!

Monday, Oct 25




Wow what a difference a day makes. I was crabby and very tired today and had a really difficult time doing anything with any gusto. I think running with the young gals finally caught up with me and I hope tomorrow I will feel a lot better. Having the internet down again today didn’t help and having rain all night was also a downer. Our hike was backbone ridge and it whipped me from the start. The trail was very muddy and slippery and I was very lucky to stay upright. So the day continued to go down hill from there .I got my laundry done very early and am now ready to go to bed and be very rested for a wonderful day tomorrow. I took very few pictures but I will post what I have……..PS I can't post anymore pictures until tomorrow. I've used all my space and I have to wait 24 hours for additional space, so hope for internet connection tomorrow and I will post so cool pictures

Disneyland here we come !!

Sunday Oct 24




Yea !!! It’s off to Disney we go. Seven of us piled into Katie’s van after breakfast and headed off to Disneyland in Anaheim. I even enjoyed the ride since we passed a lot of cool places. In Hollywood I saw the sign “Hollywood” on the side of the hill , Universal Studios, and Columbia Record building. Such fun too to be with these six girls. They are all young and full of so much energy and fun. We arrived about one hour later and hit the park and the rides hard and heavy. It was such a hoot. We all survived the tempting foods and managed to eat our brown bag lunches from the resort. Now that was a feat since there were so many things there I love. After a full day of rides and shopping we headed home only to get stuck in lots of very slow traffic. One of the gals called the resort and ask them to hold our dinner so we arrived back about 7:45, sat in the dining room and ate our wraps and desserts they held for us. I was so hungry, and it tasted so good especially since I didn’t cheat at Disney. I did drink too many diet cokes and this really wasn’t the best choice. Oh well it was a blast and I do have some cute pictures. I need to get more space so I post a few now and more tomorrow when they Ok my account.