Fitness and Brekkie

Wednesday dawned bright and sunny, with a temperature of only minus 27 degrees and a wind chill factor of minus 39 degrees... piece of cake! We are hardened Kiwi's after all...

Of course, on the coldest day so far, we both had things to do outside! Lee had agreed to shovel out the driveway as it had snowed the day before, and i had agreed to (wait for it... are you sitting down?) go to step aerobics class with Brenda. (Yeah i know... crazy eh?).

Lee and Bill clearing the driveway.

Keep up the good work Lee! :)

The funny thing about being outside in such cold temperatures is that the inside of your nose freezes together... it is the most bizare feeling because you are breathing away and then your nose feels as though it is going to stick together from the inside! Interesting.

So we walked to aerobics class down the street from where we are staying, and by the time i got there i was absolutely frozen... it is hard to describe just how cold it really is... it is insane!! I have never been in anything like it!! Thank goodness for beanies, scarves and gloves is all i can say.

I don't have to tell most of you that exercise and I don't really mix. This is because aside from the fact that i am one of the clutziest people i know, i have no real sense of rhythm (well when i am sober anyway... i sure think i have rhythm when i have a couple of wines under my belt, however the truth of the matter is different entirely). So in the past when i have gone to a class like that... i am the one at the back of the class totally out of time to everyone else, and when they turn around to face the back, i am totally shamed because i am doing something that more resembles a cross between an African war dance and a spastic chicken, than aerobics. I am sad to say that this time was really no different to before, and step aerobics is way harder than normal aerobics because you have to try not to fall off the step as well as trying to keep time and try not to resemble the spastic chicken... sigh... maybe next time. Was fun anyway, until i got up the next day and could hardly walk! I think i have learned my lesson.

We then went to a local diner down the street for brekkie. Man was that a culture shock!! I have never heard so many ways to have eggs and bacon!! And has anyone ever heard of home fries?? Hmmmmm.... where do i start??

Well, apparently if you order eggs over-easy, that means runny yolks... and over-hard means hard yolks. Okay... no worries... even i can figure that one out. So then you get onto the bacon... geesh! There is back bacon (i guess kinda like our middle bacon... with the fat trimmed off) and then there is side bacon (which looks like streaky bacon)... and then of course there is the pea-meal back bacon, which is the back bacon from above coated in pea-meal. Okay... got that? Well then you get onto the home fries... which is fried cubes of potato... of course!! Why would you call it just fried potatoes??!! :) And the other interesting thing is that with your various different orders of bacon and eggs comes a container of jam to put on your toast. Hmmm... i found that kinda interesting... people eat the bacon and eggs and then spread jam on the toast and eat it at the end. I guess that would put a slightly different spin on the good old bacon butty!! I ended up having a cream cheese bagel!! It was just easier! :)