Easter weekend.....

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My husband and I decided to go ot of town for Easter (due to

a " longstory " cocerning my adult daughter who was trying to

manipulate me so we decided just to go somewhere..)Anyway...whre to

go...so we decided to visit the Mission Inn in Riverside (a Beautiful

place, built in 1909 and actually Pres. Nixon married Pat there in

the mid fortys)So historical! We had a beautiful room, the weather

was great....anyway...so off BFL for the entire weekend...(oh my!)It

had three 5 star restaurants and is known for their Sunday brunch. We

started the experience after checking in with huge (I mean HUGE)

margaritas in the patio...surrounded by bromiliads, bogonias,

impatiants and tall palms. We walked through the shops, checked out

the historical stuff...off to a very old bar to sit and watch the

people sipping on a rum and diet coke (okay, girls this is confession

time!)munching on little trail mixes....made reservations at one of

the great restuarants there....strolled the antique spots....Dinner

at 7 outside with the bell tower ringing every 15 min and

the " padre/calif. bear/spanish cowboy moving in a different position

on the clock (life size)each quarter hour. The food! maple glazed

duck breast on a pile of thai noodles....dessert was a piece of

flourless cho cake with real whipped cream and raspberry sauce...a

little blackberry sitting on top...AND a glass of

champagne...hmmmm...was I bad or what??? We were stuffed! (we are not

used to eating like his...even though I only ate about 1/3 of my

dinner and 1/2 of my cake I was so full I felt like a sausage!)I

won't boar you with too much more except to say that the next day was

Sunday brunch with all the trimmings (found I could only eat a very

small amt of anything...no matter how I tried (at 39 dollars a person

you want to get your monies worth..ha ha)We then checked out and

drove home.

ANYWAY..the husband gets on the scale and says to me , " Pat you don't

wanna get on the scale....I did and gained 6 pounds! " ...that SCARED

me...I mean if a MAN gains that much...what did I do to myself??? I

could not help myself...this morning I stepped on the eili

monster...expecting a rise of at least 8 lbs....Thankfully I only

gained 2 lbs...that is all!!!! I thank my new made muslces for buring

some of that stuff off of me (poor hubby can't work out cos he hurt

is shoulder last time when he tried). I feel so lucky! NW I have to

get back to the program and suck it up! I have to have a PERFECT day

that leads to a PERFECT week...WISH ME LUCK!!! I am starting week 4

of challenge two and do not want to lose my progress!

Thanks for letting me " tell on myself " I feel more accountable this

way!

Pat

PS the husband bought me one of those wonderful robes that the hotel

has available for their guests...I fell in love with the warm white

thick terrycloth and so as we left he asked where he could buy one

for me and then he bought me one....a Wonderful Easter..if you ask me!