day 12: sand &fastfood

this morning we took a hike called "awesome chasm". we had to leave about 20 minutes early in order to finish our hike on time. so we left FR at 6:05. it was about an 8 mile hike i think. most of the hikes are 4-8 miles. there was a ton of sand on the trail! it was so frustrating. i stayed close to ed, who's from brooklyn, and he kept me laughing the whole time. i think maybe i just think the things he says are funny because he still has a slight russian accent. today he complained, "if only there was a large body of water, then maybe this sand wouldn't be so atrocious". i absolutely love him!! the chasm was awesome but we only stayed for about 5-10 minutes which was kind of ridiculous considering how long it takes to get there.

breakfast was a bacon and egg sandwich, which i believe i had at the beginning of last week. i'm not a huge fan, but everything else here is fine so i can't complain.

next i went to another label reading lecture. today we looked at the labels on frozen meals, yogurts, salad dressings, and tortillas. as i've said before, they really just stress the consumption of foods that haven't been processed an unnecessary amount. the shorter the ingredient list, the better. fage was considered the best choice of yogurt! i was completely satisfied with that since i could eat fage forever.

all the talk of food had me really wanting to head over to the gym (makes sense, right?...hahah). so the next thing i chose was "gym class" which is usually a random cardio activity selected by a trainer, but today there were only two people in the gym. another woman and me. that's it. i grabbed my ipod, hopped on the treadmill, and walked a half mile to warm up, ran a mile at 5.7 (i never thought i would do that, ever), and then walked a half mile to cool down. that only took me about a half hour, so i decided to go into the empty aerobics room and stretch by myself. i was in heaven.

lunch was a vegetable soup and a turkey club pita (served with a side salad). when i walked into the dining room, i saw a mcdonalds bag on one of the tables as well as 3 pizza boxes. nicole ran over and started screaming at them, asking what they were doing with all of that stuff. it didn't take long to realize it was a prank! T, the guy who pulled the prank, said mcdonalds made him buy something. he had to actually buy 2 cheeseburgers and throw them away. poor guy... hahah. sharon hit him over the head with one of the pizza boxes.

after refueling, i went to the gym to play volleyball, yet again. it's fun every time though especially if kateri is around! for my afternoon classes, i took treading first and then took ball works. i did treading on the elliptical which i found less boring but it was harder to maintain speed. incase you forgot, ball works is the class where we strength train with a giant pilates ball. you wouldn't think it'd work but i think i might actually feel it tomorrow.

shanelle, annie, and i skipped our third class and went to the new basketball court and messed around a little. i ran a lot today so i knew i needed to stretch as much as possible. the basketball playing was horrific and now i understand why i chose tennis and softball. we attempted to play around the world but we could barely get ourselves across any countries. it was shameful. truly.

dinner was a café salad, which is lettuce, rice, beans, pico de gallo, citrus dressing, red onions, and grilled chicken on top of a whole wheat tortilla. for dessert we had apple crumb which tasted quite similar to the one we have at thanksgiving (hi mom). i decided not to go to the lecture after because i'll have the opportunity to go to the same one next week. no reason to rush myself out of here, since i still have plenty of time...

i watched true blood instead. it was a greaaat episode, if you haven't seen it yet--you really need to get on that. now i'm going to go shower.

guess why? 80 minute swedish massage tonight :) with my new best friend... you know.
love you,
goodnight!