After my shopping adventure yesterday, I came home and crashed for a bit. When the husband came home, we ate left over enchiladas and headed to the skate park just to watch people. He asked if I spend much of high school years at a skate park, but I hadn't. I've been a few times but never knew how to skateboard.
I've been having a rough time sleeping in. Not only does the sun rise sooooo early, but during the week, I wake up to lots of construction going on.
I had the same Special K, Activia pouring yogurt, melon and coffee for breakfast so I'll spare the repetative picture. I met the Husband at lunch time and went to Thomson, a travel company. In just over a month, we'll be celebrating out 1st anniversary. We have always done some sort of get away since we've been dating and started thinking about what to do this year. We were hoping to do one of the following: go on a cruise or take a multiday tour of Ireland or some other planned weekend getaway package. Unfortunately, that doesn't exist here. The school holidays are different here than in the states and the beginning of August is peak season for travel which means all of the cruises are 7-18 days (time which we just don't have) and "prepackaged" holidays (that's what they call vacations here) have been booked for months.
It's easy to get to Paris from here by train but it's not high on the Husband's list and I've been there twice. In fact, it, along with Ireland, are the only places in Europe I've been and we really want to experience somewhere new. We also want to keep it on budget so we can have other getaways here in the UK so Venice and most of the rest of Italy are out. Amsterdam wasn't too appealing and while it's cheap to stay in Prague, it's expensive to get there. We decided on somewhere that we can take the Euro Star to and that was well under budget (by like half of what we wanted to spend): Brussels! And do you know what Belgium is famous for? WAFFLES AND CHOCOLATE! We are hopefully going to head over there on the 5th of August and will report back after.
Speaking of bad food, that's what I've been eating since I've arrived. Remember when I said this blog was going to be about food and exercise? Well there's been plenty of food but the exercise has been lacking. I do love working out but have just not had much motivation in months. I looked into joining the gym here but it's a little unreasonable given the duration of my stay. I am staying a little active by walking, as we don't have a car. I probably walk between a mile or two a day, carry groceries home and take the 3 flights of stairs up to our flat, but that's it as far as activity goes. The truth is, I just need to throw on the tennis shoes and go for short 30-45 minute jog each day. It shouldn't be hard since there are such nice places to explore and plenty of parks around; I just need to do it.
I try not to dwell on past bad decisions but bad food choices to lead to inactivity. So, to be proactive for the week, I was craving some major vegetables (something I have been deficient in eating for the last several weeks). I went shopping for food for dinner (either tonight or tomorrow) so I wouldn't be tempted to eat out AGAIN. I had hoped to get to the market but it was raining so I'll head back to the grocery store tomorrow. In the mean time, I had some quick, easy veggie stir fry with rice noodles.
On the menu for tonight is more stir fry but with meat, veggies the boys like and egg noodles. The same, but different!
The cleaning people just left so I'll snap some pictures of our flat for another post later tonight (hopefully)!
Cheers!
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