A weekend trip to see my folks

Ugh, referring to my parents as "folks" makes me feel really old. Yet somehow it was the first term that came to mind.

Sam, Weston, Kona, and I made a quick weekend  trip to see my parents over the long Memorial Day weekend last month. It was a great weekend, too quick, but so nice to see my parents and my home town.

We spent a full day in Morro Bay, one of our favorite places on the Central Coast. The dogs like it as much as we do too!

Of course, no trip to Morro Bay is complete without some Firestone and fish tacos from Dockside #2! The dogs also agree on this as well :)

We also celebrated Mom's birthday - I won't mention how old she turned, but here's the story: 

Once upon a time, when Mom was just a teen, she and her friend traveled around town via mo-peds. We still have that mo-ped, and every birthday that Mom has celebrated ending with a "0", Dad gets that thing running again for her. This birthday was one of those special birthdays!

There was a small hint at how young she turned in those photos - did you catch it?? It was a blast to watch her cruising the street! I mean the last year thing was actually registered was in 1984! That's vintage for ya!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Workout # 11 - The 52 Card Deck of Death...I promise it won't kill ya!

I've got a fantastic new workout idea for ya'll today! It's not exactly super new to world of fitness, but it's new to me, so I wanted to share it - it will blow your mind, get you super sweaty and feeling the burn for at least a day afterwards! And the best part is, the only piece of equipment that you need is a deck of ordinary playing cards!

It goes like this, each type of card (note - NOT the suits) has a different exercise, for example:

With the deck of cards face-down near you, flip the top card over and do the corresponding exercise. For example, if your card is a RED 8 of Diamonds, you would do 8 push ups. If your card was a BLACK 10 of Spades, you would do 10 squats. Get it? Suits don't matter at all! Do all 52 cards quickly, but without losing form, it should take about 45-60 minutes. And the best part is that each exercise is easily exchangeable for something else. If you don't like push ups, you could do jumping jacks instead - or anything you choose!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did - I did it last Saturday for the first time on my back patio and Kona kept laying on my mat! She thought it was sunbathing time :) Silly girl!