Oh Boy! er... Joy!

This weekend is the official opening of 'Inland Fishing' aka Trout fishing in Wisconsin... as every year Duner loves to make a weekend of it and go fishing and camp out. He talks about it for WEEKS and gets so excited. Since he was working til 10pm on Friday, I was the lucky person to get everything ready for the big trip. Food, Bedding, Tent and cookware were all piled in the garage with the help of some very excited boys...Zeb and Reece. Brock did not want to go with. He is not so much the outdoors type.
So Friday after work we ate supper at a newer place called LUCKYS. It was Grazies Italian Grill, but now it is more variety type place with burgers, fish, steaks, some Italian and Pizza. A pub like atmosphere but also with a 'family' type dining area (smoke free!). We headed for the family dining room and that is when the kids FELL IN LOVE with the place.... yes. IN. LOVE. At one end of the dining hall is 5 Huge flat screen tv's with either an X-box, PS3 or some other game system attached to it. Each one with controls and diffrent games on them... Guitar Hero, Madden 09 are the only two I knew. Reece gave it a '2 THUMBS UP'. Brock said it was ' FIVE STARS!'. Zeb said this was 'so cool'. All of them said 'We have to come here again!'
Me? Personally it was the HAND DIPPED BEER BATTERED CHEESE CURDS that will bring me back. Have you ever been to the county fair? Have you paid way to much for those all too yummy morsels of soft, squishy SAVORY grease balls? I have! I figured it was a once a year deal right? Well NO MORE... I will have to try and avoid those suckers at this place. We ordered a batch and between Brock and I we almost ate the ENTIRE THING! Yep... BAD. Very. Bad. *sigh* ~guilt...guilt~
Ok... so now I am finished with work... I worked 10 hours today at the Y. I have only one of my kids... but 2 of the neighbor kids spending the night. Hmmm. Let's see, so I lost 2 kids... then I pick up 2 more. Kind of like nothing really changed... except, they are older and don't plug the toilet with too much TP and leave stuff laying all over. Good times. ~ : ]
It was cute. Brock called me today to see if he could go over to his friends house and said " Hey Mom, know what? I actally enjoy picking up the house when my brothers aren't here. I have been doing MORE than what you asked me to! I even moved things around rather then go around them!".

Only 7 more days til Journey's Half Marathon in Eagle River. Duner and the boys are going to head up to cheer me across the finish line. If you have nothing to do feel free to come on up and join 'em!
If I ever stop with these various butt and leg cramps I am hoping to come in at 2hrs and 15 minutes. I did my last long 12 miler last Saturday, but over did it with 400 lunges and 100 crunches. I was fine that day, but I couldn't walk right til Tuesday. I was on my way to Baskin Robbins for some ICE CREAM THERAPY (~what? you haven't heard of that??) when I pulled into the parking spot and noticed a Max Muscle store. As I struggled to exit the truck, I decided to ask them for some recommendations for relieving the pain in my lower body. (Do you know how many muscles in your lower body you actually USE TO ROLLL OVER IN BED?? LOTS!! Believe me I know!) Anyhoo, One hour and $$$$$ later he tells me the joys of protein shakes and glutemine. I tried 2 different kinds of protein shakes and wasn't so hungry for the ice cream. I didn't need those extra fat calories anyway...

I had a 4 mile tempo run on Thursday that my butt cramp was aimed and ready to fire the entire time. It ended being a pretty crappy tempo run, but I did it. Tomorrow I have a 6 mile long run on the agenda, and today my left hamstring decided to act up on me. What did I do to deserve this? I STRETCH!! Really!! Come on!!!! Wish me luck!