Happy 6 Month Anniversary!

Today we've been married 6 months! It's still hard to believe that we're halfway to our one year anniversary! We never had an anniversary day, even after all these years, so it's fun for us to celebrate. Today on our six month anniversary we will celebrate by doing laundry, cleaning the kitchen, food shopping, working on the basement, cutting the grass, and running errands! See, we sound just like an old married couple! But, later we will take our Charley on a hike for some QT.

Interesting Article

I don't know how, but I've stumbled upon this very interesting article that I very much relate to. Being a "new" 9 month old vegetarian, isn't as easy as you'd think. I've had a good amount of strange carnivore comments, as well as adjusting, and realizing, how sadly (to me) meals are completely centered around dead animals. I became a vegetarian, and was probably destined to become, due to my love for all animals. I had a traumatic experience of eating Emeril's lovely duck, all to walk out of the restaurant to see a mama duck and her ducklings happily swimming around in the lagoon. It totally hit me...I ate daddy! How horrible! Not to mention, I probably didn't eat daddy, but at a duck who spent his whole life overstuffed in a cage, being pumped full of hormones, breaking his legs, unable to ever walk or have fresh air, so he'd be nice and plump and juicy to eat. Soon after that I did my first juice cleanse, which in preparation required the complete elimination of animal products. After that, eating flesh was history. (Not to mention the other highly disturbing Thanksgiving when I was stopped in the road by a beautiful flock of over twenty wild turkeys crossing the road, on the way to Thanksgiving dinner!) So, in this article, I can relate to some of the carnivore comments. My way of responding to vegetarian critique is to say, " I don't eat anything with a face."
http://www.salon.com/2011/08/24/vegetarian_carnivore_conversation/singleton/?mobile.html

So gross

I'm so grossed out. I'm at the grocery store, shopping for tomorrows dinner with our neighbors... Did you know angel food cake has SOAP in it to help it whip! Sodium lauryl sulfate. Nasty. This is why I make food from scratch with ingredients, not soap!

Bobsled!

This is our bobsled run! I'm in the first seat (after the driver, which you can't see), and Robb is behind me. Our time was 42.65 seconds, the best of the day! We were the last run of the entire season. We went 127.1 KPH (78.98 MPH) Our run was on the bottom 2/3rds of the track. It was a really cool feeling to be doing this where Olympians went also! What a rush!

Our last Whistler day :0(

For our last day in Whistler, we went tubing! It was very fun and like all hills here, there was green, blue, and black runs. We went on the blues and blacks, as for tubing, we're experts.
Sadly, our horse drawn sleigh ride was cancelled on us because of trail conditions, even though it looked fine to us. But we still had a romantic fondue dinner as the snow came falling down. (perfect for a sleigh ride, sad.) Our dinner was still fabulous, and now we have the giant task of packing up our condo. We will head to Vancouver, explore their Chinatown, Gastown, and Yaletown, before beginning our long journey home. I'm sad to be almost done with vacation, but really miss my fuzzy boys at home, and can't wait to see them.

Spaaaaahhhhhh

We are very sore today. Last night we fell asleep at 7, basically since every muscle in our bodies were no longer functioning. Today, we woke up and had a day at the much needed Scandanive Spa. Our day started off with a couples massage (best massage if my life) followed by several rounds of the baths. You alternate 15 minutes hot (hot tub, Finnish wood burning sauna, or eucalyptus steam room) followed by 20-30 seconds of FREEZING cold water bath, then into a solarium to relax for 15 minutes. After several rounds, we left feeling refreshed and rejuvenated, and just a little less sore. Wonderful!

Cross Country and Bobsled

Today we went to Whistler Olympic Park and did some cross country skiing. This place was where they did all the cross country, biathlon, and ski jumping. We even has the luck of seeing a few ski jumpers practicing. Just like a ski mountain there were double green, green, blue, and black trails. The double green was exhausting and the green was all that I could take. We had a nice lunch outside and skied a little more, until my arms and legs turned to jello. Now we're off to BOBSLED!