It feels like we have been gone alot lately. Well we have been, I suppose. When Rob and I can manage days off at the same time, we try to take advantage of them. We love travelling (mostly because he wants to find new places to eat, seriously) so that’s what we do. When we aren’t gone, Rob works almost everyday and I work my schedule so that I can get my fulltime shifts in around our trips. That’s how we live. This is how it will be until we have kids to take care of, and so, we are trying to do as much as we can until other responsibilities enter our lives! We don’t plan on looking back and saying “we should have…”
A few more pictures from our trip…
We rented this scooter to cruise around the island. I had never driven one before, so i was a little nervous. This is a picture of my first time on it, turning in the parking lot! EEK! Rob did the driving.
Feeling a little more comfortable..
Roberto on the speed demon (he was pretending go really fast here). Taking a break for sore butts!
the view from our room…
a stop at the beach while out on the scooter.
After a tough run in the sand (or maybe i was just wearing runners on the scooter
He was getting really sick of me taking pictures of him!
We went for a very delicious dinner that night and arrived back to our hotel to find a Christmas Party going on in the courtyard. A group of schollaged kids in a Carribean band were playing their hearts out. Drums, Horns of all sizes, Dancing. It was awesome. All of the party guests were up dancing and cheering, it was pretty intense.
So we are back home and I am thinking alot about changes that I need to make to my eating. I think that my lax attitude about food lately has held me back from the results I want. I have been working with a trainer, as you guys know and was running with my nike+ program. Now, I think I have a stress fracture in the outside of my right foot and haven’t been running on it. My body has changed since working with the trainer, but my trouble area is my stomach and I hate that I look through pictures from my trip and want to delete every one with my stomach showing. When I started gaining weight when I was younger, my stomach was the first place it would go. I had a really big belly and it continues to be the last place that I lose fat from. That is just the way I am. Let me find a picture here to illustrate what I mean…..
…well, here is one, sort of, i have deleted most belly shots already (i can’t help it, i have a problem!)
see how i have a pudge shelf that just hangs over my belly button. it casts a shadow! i feel like that will never go away..
I know, get over it! It’s not important in the grand scheme of life…but it just bugs me.
What is your PART that bugs you? How can I get past this ridiculous obsession wih my belly fatness?

















































that is Pino, our chef
Rob loves cheese!



yes, that is a rabbit





MUSHROOMS!!
Yes, that is a jumbo ox of chocolate bits, which i promptly asked rob to pry from my hands!
Rob chef’ing!
Melt that chocolate BABE, oh yeh!
learning how to cut apart the bunny…specifically where the kidneys are in order not to cut them open. Apparently they really stink if you do that.
kidneys out! success! (i am a tad grossed out here)


The Cheese Plate
This run today killed me! My limbs felt like velcro covered lead pipes being dragged across carpet! We took a new path heading north from home and basically running uphill for the first 3k – not cool! This resulted in a few walk breaks and me pouting! But, what goes up must come down (right shug? your mom told me that as she tried to get down something we had gotten stuck in your big, front yard, tree) and so the end of the run was mostly downhill – bonus!
**please disregard my eye wrinkles!!