Tuesday Check-In (plus a couple of great places to visit in Morehead City)

So I didn't get my extras in last night. We had a night without kids and the hubby came home a little later than normal, so he showered and we went off to town for a delicious meal out.  We ate at one of our favorite places in Morehead City, Raps.  And we chose pretty wisely by ordering two appetizers to share and a house salad each.  The Seared Ahi Tuna was delicious and the Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp with Chipotle Barbeque Sauce was delicious as well.  But what made the meal was the Cucumber Wasabi to dip the tuna in.  Absolutely divine!

After supper we walked down the Morehead City waterfront. It was really breezy and the tide is extremely high because of the full moon so it was interesting to see some of the docks under water.  After we finished that walk we checked out a new-to-us place.  They sell lots of different beers and a good selection of wine.  It's called Promise' Land Market and it's right on Highway 70/Arendell Street in Downtown Morehead City.  The owner was wonderful to talk to and they had two new-to-me Gluten Free beers that I cannot wait to try.  They are Omission which are the ones that are brewed with wheat and barley, but the gluten is removed at the end so I'm hoping for something closer to what beer tastes like than New Planet, but you do what you have to.  I just miss the flavor of real beer.  But if you are ever in town, this is a fun place to go.  You can get them for carry-out or they have tables and a small bar setup (and some beers on draft).  They plan to expand in the future so I wish them well and we will be back!

We then went home and vegged out for the rest of the evening.

Then I woke up at 5:45 this morning. I had actually planned on skipping my strength workout so I could sleep in since we went to bed around 11:30, but I guess my body had other plans.  I decided not to go to the gym so I dug into my immense exercise video library and came up with one of my favorites, Fire Supercharged Sculpting.  This is a great one and I dusted off my Transfirmer, got out my exercise mats and put on my cross trainers and I was off.  This is a tough one or you can make it as tough as you want with the weights you choose.  I used 12, 10, 8, and 5.  5 was for shoulder and 12 was for legs and back.  For my arms, chest and some shoulder work I used 10.  I felt great afterwards and went and woke up the hubby for our walk.




We headed off to the local park again and it was a nice breezy morning so I think I broke more of a sweat during my workout at home.  We did 3.1 miles in 54 minutes.  I felt refreshed afterwards and ready to tackle the day.

Youngest son is home tonight so I'm hoping we will fix shrimp, rice and okra which is his favorite.  He stays with my parents a couple of nights a week during the summer so it's nice to have little breaks, but I'm glad to have him home too.

I did a lot of ab work with the Firm video so tonight will just be pushups because the video was a little light on chest work.  Our youngest loves to do pushups with us and he's getting quite good and I'm so proud of him for joining in.

Well that was long-winded but now I must sign off, I have a delicious salad to enjoy for work and I had a Van's Chocolate Chip bar and a banana for breakfast.