Hi everyone! Did you see that we surpassed 1600 Facebook Fans this week? Hooray! In celebration I’m doing some random giveaways to the first person to answer my ridiculous and completely unimportant trivia questions correctly. So head on over and join the fun. So far we’ve established that The Bachelor Pad is my new favourite TV show of the moment. Don’t judge…it is AWESOME. I’ve never laughed out loud so much at my television before but I’ll get back to that later in the week.
Right now I’d like to recap my little summer vaycay to Maine.
Why Maine you ask?
Why NOT Maine I say!
It’s sunny, it’s beachy, the people are nice, the outlet shopping is good and the taxes are low. What’s not to like?
If you’ve done any type of road tripping, I’m sure you all know how limited your food choices are when you’re stuck on the highway for a long distance. You have those awful service centre off ramps with McDonalds, Wendy’s etc. or you can get really fancy and get off the highway and hit a Burger King or something. I was travelling with my Dad who I’m convinced believes the whole point of a vacation is to consume as much crap as you possibly can before you go home as if it doesn’t count or something, so he had his eye on his favourite – Denny’s. Much to my dismay there was no way around it.
I tried my best to be healthy as I am normally a fairly healthy eater (unless someone puts a brownie or some other type of chocolaty treat in front of me and then all bets are off) and if I’m going to really SPLURGE it is NOT going to be on Denny’s. So I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich and a salad. The waitress asks what type of dressing I’d like with my salad. But judging from this picture what she should have asked was what type of salad would I like floating in my BOWL of dressing?
I don’t know if you can tell in that first picture but the dressing had actually pooled up in the bottom. And FYI my choices were CREAMY RANCH, BLUE CHEESE or HONEY MUSTARD. I chose honey mustard. The lesser of all evils I thought.
Hey Denny’s – let me introduce you to a friend of mine…BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE.
Hell, ANY kind of vinaigrette.
A young couple across from us each ordered a full breakfast fajita meal – the ones that come in a skillet as well as pancakes AND waffles – and they finished it all. And if you’ve ever been to Denny’s you know that the portions are MAMMOTH.
So this set the pace for the eating portion of the trip. Fried this, fried that. Fatty this, ice cream that. Mmmmm……fried clam strips ;)
By day three I was losing my mind, doing push ups in the room and looking for objects heavy enough to do some bicep curls with. It was like my body went into toxic shock. ‘EXERCISE ME PLEASE’. It’s amazing how that can happen if you get used to working out everyday – because once you stop it’s almost impossible to get going again, right?
I went to the grocery store and picked up some Kashi frozen meals. Some good. Some not so much. But they are healthy as shit so I gave it a shot. They helped balance out the unhealthy dinners in my mind. ;)
And EVERY restaurant in Maine has scallops, clams and lobster. Seriously. It doesn’t matter what type of restaurant – if you can even FIND a non-seafood restaurant, they still have seafood. Even Arby’s, Subway and possibly McDonald’s have all added lobster menu items.
I know you are so fascinated by my rambling.
So the best part of the vacation is that we stay right on the beach. You can literally walk (flip flop free) from your room to the water in under a minute.
So you sit, you sun,
You play in the sand,
Play a little bocce ball and go boogie boarding!
(three cheers to Papa Mint for these awesome action shots!)
And at night we’d go out for dinner or go shopping.
And try on hats…
For no particular reason…
AND repeat.
And that’s what I did all week while I was away (you didn’t even notice I was gone – DID YOU!) It was a nice break from the regular routine. I took some pictures of funny signs and t-shirts…I don’t know why I enjoy them but I do so I’ll post that shortly ;)
I hope everyone had a fun week. Now that the summer is winding down (say it ain’t so) it’s time to start getting SERIOUS! So get out there and enjoy the warm weather while you can – especially my fellow Canucks!
Thanks for visiting.
Cheers!
