Training Update - and MouseFest Saturday

Good morning my friends!

Yesterday was a long day. I was up at 5am to head to the gym to meet with Todd at 5:45am. I had my bag all packed, and was ready for my workout. But I had forgotten that the first session would be mostly measurements and assessments. Todd says I favor my right leg, and gave me some massage exercises to do with a foam cylinder. Have to find one for home.

He's very goal oriented, which is good - and seems dedicated to helping me achieve MY goals, which is also good. 

I'm a little concerned that he wants to see me twice a week at the outset, since the sessions are expensive and I only bought 9 to start with. I might talk to him and see about once a week, or even twice a month. We'll see. We start weights on Monday. He asked me to do 30 minutes of cardio at moderate intensity each day until then. So today I started with 30 minutes of walk/jogging for 1.757 miles.

Yesterday was also my paralegal's first day back at work after her surgery! Welcome home! We are all glad to have you back! 

And yes, I'm in for Team Voice's January challenge - running a full marathon over the course of the month.

Food-wise, I'm going to stick with the WW points as a guideline. And will be posting full accounts of what I eat and how many points it is. I should have 34 points per day, plus 35 weekly points, absent any activity. So we'll go from there (Amber's going to get me a few meal log sheets from her next meeting, so I should have more accurate stats for you).

Back to MouseFest!

Saturday morning opened with the Beaches and Cream Kitchen Sink Meet! WOW! What a great turnout - you guys devoured FIVE kitchen sinks and TWO no way joses! Aside from the first ever live AATM roll call, we had prizes to give out, and some were small....stickers....and some, like Glen's (below) were VERY nice and large.

After that I headed over to the Mega Mouse Meet. TALK ABOUT HUGE. This was immensely fun, as Bryan gave me the recorder and I proceeded to get lots of live audio. We even interviewed Mr. Charlie Ridgeway himself! We got a signed book to give away, and generally just really enjoyed ourselves. Special thanks to Meg, Deb, Rae, Eric, and Glenn for hanging out with me, taking pictures, and sometimes even holding stuff for me. :)

Then it was off to EPCOT with Amber for the afternoon - we rode Nemo, and the ALL NEW SPACESHIP EARTH (still under construction). I'm going to reserve my comments until it's done, sufficed to say that if the technology I saw in the beginning keeps up - it will be FANTASTIC at the end.

We rode Test Track - I had my first ever ride on the less intense Mission: Space - which was VERY fun - and then headed over to World Showcase to head to Lou's DWT Family Reunion Meet. We stopped along the way to see Donald at the Gran Fiesta Tour. Fun ride.
After a quick photo op in Italy, we headed to Japan to watch Illuminations with Lou Mongello, Deanna, Jon Corigliano, Bryan, Amy, and many others. What a show. Incredible. The holiday tag was marvelous.

But by far the best effect was the little island by Japan catching fire. NICE. :)

See you guys tomorrow!

MAIN STREET AWAITS!