My Journey With Health And Fitness – A Day Of Fun

Today is the 7th of the month which means we celebrate my ‘lil bro’. We decided after the 1st anniversary of his passing that we wanted to stop doing the tradition of Chinese food and instead do something different. Last month we went to a casino which he loved doing. This month is was a picnic in a park with some chicken. It was awesome and I am so glad we are changing ways to remember him.

Yesterday I had an amazingly fun day. My sister and I went on a Marvelous Mystery Tour. The original plan was for me to do a 2 hour walk before getting on the bus at 8:00am but the weather decided not to cooperate. When I got up at 4:00am it was teeming down with rain so opted to at least get a bootcamp class in instead. It took a lot of effort during the day to not berate myself about the lack of workouts but my mantra was 1 day wouldn’t hurt me.

We started out heading to the International Buddha Society Garden and Temple. Now to be honest I would not have picked that as a place to go but it was absolutely lovely. The gardens and statues were so beautiful and peaceful. And I learned so much such as Buddhism actually started in India, I always thought it was in Asia. It was well worth visiting.

Next stop was the London Heritage Farm, a farm originating from the early 1900’s. We got to learn about the family who had originated the farm, their history, tour the farmhouse and then the farm. We also learned they do afternoon tea 2 weekends a month and a few times a year they do a high tea. Wouldn’t you know the next high tea is on my sister’s birthday so you bet I have reserved us a table. Then talking to the next door neighbour today she insisted I book 2 more seats for her and her Mom. Can’t wait for that.

We continued on to this lovely seaside village called Steveston where we had lunch. We also got some time to tour around and we found a sweet little gift shop where we got a few little trinkets. It was then on to Lulu Island Winery (seriously what else would be a better way to end the day) where we had a tour of the vineyard, production area followed by some wine tasting.

1 day doesn’t make a difference and I was back at it with 4 hours of walking and a strength class today. What did make a difference was just enjoying myself for the day. Bottom line, it was a fun day.