My friend Maureen and I drove to Jamestown, NY to visit our friends Kim and Kris (Dave stayed home and took care of Wolf) and luckily the trip coincided with my birthday hehehe. The first night we made the most delicious salad from Wegman’s salad bar.

we love Wegman’s!

Up early the next morning for a long walk with Mo (as is our habit when we visit Kim). Then off to Lilydale where I had a past life reading (my friend Claudia mentioned she’d like to hear about the reading and it’s kind of long, so that will be a separate post up soon), as did Maureen and then we wandered around Lilydale for a bit.

We joined Kim at her country club (she’s a dentist) and had a light lunch.

“Light lunch”

Later that evening we went to Forte, where the girls treated me to a lovely dinner. I had something called Corn Agnolotti; it’s described as “home-made stuffed pasta filled with corn, polenta & Marscapone cheese tossed with delicate crab, green peas & carrots in a corn milk cream sauce with a hint of truffle” and holy MOG was it GOOD! We shared a couple of appetizers, too: a devilled egg platter (the chip & dip one was amazing) and drunken mussels (described as “a traditional Belgian preparation: one pound of mussels sautéed with home-made crumbled chorizo sausage & onions in a mellow beer broth alongside french fries & a Pommery mustard aioli”). Also had two bottles of wine!

For dessert, chocolate stout cake and a ginger cupcake with green tea ice cream. I was stuffed at that point and only had a few bites!

But it was delish, especially the ginger cupcake with it’s yummy bit of candied ginger inside.

The next morning we took a trip to Amish country and stopped at so many amazing places.

My mother was from Lancaster, PA which has a large Amish community and we spent a few vacations in that area, so this kind of felt like home to me.

After that, we toured the Southern Tier Brewery and emjoyed the most amazing Creme Brulee Stout. I bought a bottle of that yummy stuff!

And after THAT we went to a party at Kris’s house and sang songs and had a great time.

After all that eating and drinking, I still lost a pound when I weighed in on Tuesday!

All in all, it was a fantastic time and I’m so glad we made the trip!

As I just told Kizz, during the week I’ve got my timer set on the phone to signal me every two hours* to eat a little something**…half a single serving container of yogurt (I’m loving Chobani Greek w/pineapple) with some healthy cereal (such as 1/8 cup All-Bran & 1/8 cup Special K cinnamon pecan or red berries) [160 calories], a handful of almonds (I take out a serving size, 14, and eat them slowly) [160], a couple wasa sourdough crispbreads with a bit of peanut butter [165], a boiled egg [80], a couple of medjool dates [132]. Lots of water, and a cup of unsweetened tea, a cup, maybe two of black coffee. I WILL get this weight off!!!

*cause I’m a bad judge of time otherwise, this way no inadvertant cheating!
**until I go to bed…I’m not waking myself up to eat LMAO