I LIKE ICE CREAM!

Last night I went to the gym to do the aqua class and it was quite good. It was nice to do something that is normally high impact, but with the fact that I had been going hardcore for the last few days, being in the pool for over an hour was a low impact day for me. However I almost had a "You're overdoing it, please stop, or I'll make you" moment. After the class I decided to go into the hot spa. I had never been in a spa before (I wouldn't call an onsen a hot spa...or maybe it was....OK, for argument's sake, I've never been in a hot spa in Canada before, even though it's one of those generic western ones!) It was nice and relaxing, especially for my muscles that have been aching since I haven't been giving them much of a break. At the 15 minute mark I was getting hot and lightheaded in the water, so I wisely decided to get out. I couldn't get up so in the water, I somehow crawled my way up to the steps. I blacked out on the top step of the spa, just one step before getting out of the spa and I got such a big pressure build up in my head that I could not physically get up. It felt like I was going to faint and puke - maybe not in that order, but I felt like I was going to do both of those things. I crawled up the final step and was out of the water, but still couldn't get up and I was on all fours to try and get that pressure buildup in my head to reduce. I had to sit cross legged in the end and stay for what probably was just 2 minutes, but felt like days. The heat of the spa added to the fact that I was already feeling hot before I went into the spa and possibly made things worse. I could see again, but my head was still pounding. I manage to get up, get my things and make my way to the lockers without incident. I had to sit for a few minutes with my head down between my legs (not the ideal position, but the body just wouldn't stay upright, it just wanted to follow gravity and go down) and I had people coming up to see if I was alright, particularly the aqua instructor. I was fine, I just needed some cool air, which thankfully I was getting in the locker room. After getting in the shower, I was feeling lightheaded again, but I was being really careful in there. Once I got out of there and sat for a few more minutes I was fine again.

To celebrate the fact that I was fine, guess what I did? I went into the sauna!!! I KNOW! I know what you're going to say! I was hot and the heat made me ill, so after I get better, I decide to add more heat to my system. I know, I hear thee! But I've never been in a sauna before and all of those sauna jokes, particularly Jerry Seinfeld health club and sauna jokes just started coming to me in my head and I just said, "You have to do this - even if it's just for a few minutes, you gotta go in the sauna!" So I did. I stayed in there for 5 minutes and was surprised that I felt much better afterwards! So I guess the moral was that my body needed a break, and it'll get the break!

After the class we went shopping for groceries. Dawn and her mum got grocery coupons worth $180, so we went apeshit and got a trolley and filled it up with stuff. And it wasn't generic grocery shopping items, this was, "OK, it's free groceries, get whatever you want". I got my cookies and cream icecream and everyone else got their own thing, which was so cool. It was like Christmas, only FREE! We went at 9:30pm to avoid people having to wait in line after us, but seeing as it was so close to Christmas, there was a fair few people about, even though that shop is open 24 hours. No matter. I even had twinkies for the first time in 19 years. After I had them, I remembered why I hadn't eaten them in 19 years (apart from the fact they are not popular in Australia) and look forward to making that same discovery in 19 year's time! After having my ice cream (I had my cravings come out and play again!) I went to bed.

Today was my lazy day and what do I decide to do? Eat more ice cream. See what it's like to be a girl? Today we went to the beach in Oshawa, which is a pretty little area - and a welcome change to walk at a leisurely pace as opposed to my hardcore style that only I seem to enjoy. I'm a magnet for the beach and the water. There's just something about the water that draws me to it. I even fall asleep to it (almost) every night. I went walking for an hour, but for me it wasn't enough after going full on these last couple of days. We followed the beach trail and it ended abruptly at a bus stop, which was our bus that we waited over 30 minutes for, only to discover that it was going in the opposite direction of where we were headed! Don't blame me, I'm the foreigner, I'm allowed to make dumb mistakes like these! And we weren't in any hurry anyway. So we were on the bus for an hour after having to wait 30 minutes for it. I was so pissy that I could have walked more in that time. Got home, relaxed, ate more ice cream and now I'm packing to go to Ottawa. We leave at daybreak (Frasier joke, for all you Frasier fans....and I have a feeling it's just me on this one!) It's an 8 hour drive there, but I have a feeling we'll be having various pit stops at truckies restaurants. They are the best and most well kept and maintained eating areas, coz if you piss a truckie off by not having a good variety of food, they will tell all the other truckies, as they are a tight knit community of drivers - and all of a sudden, you've lost a lot of business just by not pleasing one trucky. I learnt that when we went to Niagara, and that was just a 2 and a half hour drive. I've done 8 hours straight on a bus before - the overnight one from Sendai to Narita airport. Twice. So I just need my sudoku book, a pair of dark sunglasses and I can sleep most of the way. And I have to be up at 5am, which means I may have to go to bed now!

See ya in a bit!