Exercise and camping

I know it's been a while since I last put up a post, but we have been busy. Last weekend we went to a friend's camp and spent the weekend there. We were surrounded by beautiful trees, and the lake wasn't far away.

We enjoyed lots of good food, had some great laughs, but also got eaten badly by mosquitoes. They are horrible this year!  I counted around 120 mosquito bites on me. At night we did sit around the campfire.

I've also been exercising a lot. I'm up to 5 km for running, but I do still have to stop a few times to walk, but I am getting there. Been doing weights, and also going on hikes

I love nature, it's so beautiful, peaceful and relaxing. I could of course do without the bugs, but I do still love it. I have to say that hiking is my absolute favorite thing to do, then it would be running. I don't have any issues with being active, I get more energy and I feel so much stronger and healthier. I am also still biking to and from work, and sometimes get onto the bike at the gym.

Friday after work started off with baseball. Our game was at 6:30 pm and we were short, quite a few of our team mates weren't able to make it, therefore I did a lot more running out in the field to get the ball. We didn't win, but we had fun. We then met up with some friends that we haven't seen in about 2 years, so it was a lot of fun to catch up and listen to a live band. Yesterday I went downtown to restock us on some meat, and to get downtown was crazy! Traffic was really heavy, and there were a lot of people downtown, thanks to the beautiful weather. Today, my dad should be here soon, and we are off to do some shopping, then we are going to my brother's to celebrate some birthday's. My mom's birthday was on the 21rst, she would have been 65 years old, I still miss her so very much!  My nephew's birthday is coming up in 2 days, and my niece is on August 3rd. I'm really looking forward to seeing them all and celebrating together.

Next weekend is a long weekend and I'm planning a trip with a friend of mine to go to Montreal and I'm really hoping I get to meet Ricardo (chef on the food network). And I do plan on buying some of his wine. The rest of the weekend, I hope to get into the kitchen because I haven't made much lately. For the camping trip I did make some guacamole, and potato salad, and I also took the time to use up a few old banana's and made a walnut, chocolate chip banana loaf. During the week I made my own pico de gallo, which turned out really good. We enjoyed that on some halibut. So my next post will be about my long weekend and hopefully I will be able to show off a picture of me with Ricardo.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!