Road Trip 2009!

In May AJ and I took a road trip to Spain for some sun and fun. Well, I just wanted to relax and SLEEP – but I went along with the fun.

It’s about a 10 hour drive from where we live to Spain, so we decided to break the drive up on our way there. We departed Germany at about 5P.M and stopped in Givors, France for the night.

Givors is kind of dull, but we were pretty exhausted when we got there – so we searched for food and went straight back to the room for some sleep.

We found the best little hidden Italian restaurant and had some great food – I can’t tell you the name of it or where exactly it was, but it was delicious.

Here is a picture of the Hotel – I think it was called the Kyriad

A picture of the view from our room

The town – Givors, France

The next morning we took off for Spain! The drive to Spain seemed pretty quick – I think that was just because we were excited.

Our time in Spain consisted of mostly relaxing in the room, sightseeing, relaxing on the beach, shopping, relaxing at the bars/pubs/clubs, eating and drinking (not in that particular order).

Anyway, Spain was AWESOME! We actually extended our vacation one day because we just couldn’t bring ourselves to leave. I really miss the beach and sunshine :(


Here are a few pictures…

On the balcony of our hotel room...

AJ trying to take a nap and me wanting a picture... AJ taking it all in... On the balcony... Sightseeing...

The drinks were 2 for 1...

Maybe I had one to many?

On the beach at night...

Sangria - some good stuff!

The spanish version of a Corona... The best Coffee ice cream i've ever had!

It’s our Anniversary!

One year ago today, I married my best friend and my life has been nothing but joy ever since.

I feel so honored and lucky to have my husband in my life!

Happy Anniversary!

Greatest Gift - Tamika Scott

Venice April 2009

AJ and I took a romantic trip to Venice in April and had a great time.

Venice is absolutely beautiful, but extremely expensive. Being the budget savvy people that we are, we stayed outside of Venice in a town called Mestre and just took the 5 minute, €1 train ride into Venice each day.

If you’re interested we stayed at Hotel Plaza, which wasn’t to glamorous, but it served its purpose.

I won’t be posting to many photos of me because I think I look so fat lately. I’m working on it though, it’s a slow process because I absolutely LOOOOVVVEEEE food.

Anyway, here a few pictures from our trip:

Waiting to board the flight... (We love RyanAir)

Checking out the sites

My little Italian bird friend...Venice is really beautiful and rustic- i'm still amazed at how these buildings are still standing with all of this water everywhere. Some of the vendors... It was crazy crowded...
This place had the best food and at a great price! On the train heading back to the hotel after a long wet day...

Inspiring Poem!

I’ve heard this poem several times, but I have never actually taken the time to really listen to it. I browse quite a few blogs and I saw that one of my favorite bloggers (Glamzini) had this posted on her site and it really hit me.

How true and inspiring!

I feel as though President Obama’s light has allowed and motivated America the to let their light shine.

Our Deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people
won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine as children do.
We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us;
it's in everyone.
And when we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson

Trying to Shed Some Pounds

I don’t consider myself fat, but I can stand to lose a few pounds and get in shape. I own a bazillion workout DVD’s and tons of exercise stuff, hell, we even have a sauna in our house. I never use any of these things. So sad, I know.

I’ve decided to seriously get myself together. Summer is just around the corner and I also have my 10 year high school reunion coming up this year.

I’m starting the Master Cleanse on Monday (2 Mar 09) and I’m going to try and last a full 5-7 days. I’ve attempted this before but I have never made it past day 2.

I’m also doing CHALEAN Extreme, which is a DVD series by Chalene that is supposed to help you to build muscle and burn fat and basically get a hot smoking body!

I won’t be posting any before pictures, well not yet at least. Let’s just see how my after pictures turn out.

My goal is for this to be more of a lifestyle change rather than just a quick weight loss thing and fall back into my habit of never working out and being a couch potato.

Some of my body inspirations:

Berlin…

AJ and I took a brief 4 day trip to Berlin and we had a great time. Berlin is filled with so much history and it is a beautiful city. We arrived on a Friday evening and had just enough time to find our hotel and grab a bite to eat. We spent all of Saturday figuring out the U/S-Bahn and walking all over to see the sites. It was soooo cold and wet and the weather was just ugh – so I’m bundled and covered up in just about all of our pics, but we still had a good time.

The Brandenburg Gate

A Piece of the Berlin Wall

AJ using his navigational skills (he's so cute trying to figure out what train to take)

Checkpoint Charlie - One of the main gateways for crossing between the two halves of Berlin during the Cold War. The naming of the checkpoints was based on the phonetic alphabet, and as this was the third such checkpoint it was given the name of Charlie.

Exhausted after a long day on the go

Hotel Adlon - This is the hotel where Michael Jackson dangled his baby from the balcony.

Starbucks has seriously taken over the world.

I made AJ take me to the Zoo

On the roof/terrace of our hotel, this was our last day there and I was so tired

Garmisch Germany…

After a very interesting week, AJ and I set off to Garmisch for the weekend. The drive was long (4 ½ to 5 hours) and unfortunately AJ wasn’t feeling all that great – so that kind of sucked.

The weekend was supposed to be relaxing, but AJ was sick and he spent the majority of the time in bed sleeping and coughing up some pretty gross stuff. He did however manage to stay up and watch his favorite team; the Pittsburgh Steelers kick butt in the Superbowl.

I squeezed in some snowboarding and a massage, but other then that our weekend was pretty uneventful. I really sucked on taking pictures (sorry) but here is one of me snowboarding...