The Bright Side

thursday's workout

• Spinning:  Spinnervals - Lean & Mean
• 316 calories
• 60 minutes
• HR: ave. 114, high 141
• Felt great!

Loved this new Spinnervals 4.0 DVD.  It focuses on interval work, which was great.  Near the end, the trainer has you get off the bike and do a series of squats and isometric squats.  Wow, my quads were shakin' and quakin'!  It was a challenge.  

Tonight, while I was spinning, I watched Under the Tuscan Sun.  Man, I love that movie.  Ah, Italy.  Tuscany.  The Amalfi Coast.  Positano.  It must be one of the most beautiful places on the planet.  I've been there twice and I'd go back there in a heartbeat.

Positano

 

The Hotel Santa Caterina

This is where we stayed in Amalfi, The Hotel Santa Caterina.  Heaven on earth.  Take a mini-vacation by clicking on the link above and take a little tour.  So beautiful.  I highly recommend it.

Wait.  How did I end up talking about Amalfi in the middle of my workout report?  Oh, right. Under the Tuscan Sun.  

 

 

Ok, enough.  Back to reality.  Time for bed.  

Night!

 

chrissie's great adventure

My daughter, Chrissie, is on a great adventure.  She is in her final semester of college and she is student teaching at an all girls school in a town in England. How cool is that? She traveled there with 3 other girls from her university and they are staying with a host family. The first 2 weeks were spent traveling through Europe with the other girls. They visited many cities in Spain, including Madrid, Malaga and Granada.

They also went to Rome and Florence, Italy.  Ah, gelato!  Yum!

The red rooftops of Florence.

Looking up in the Duomo.

In Germany, they toured Munich and Berlin.

Naturally, that included a stop at the famous Hofbrauhaus beer hall, they are college students after all.

Here's a memorial of the Berlin wall, these stones follow where the wall really stood across the whole city.

Now they are back in England and have begun their student teaching. Chrissie has a class of thirteen 3rd grade girls. They told her the first day that they love her voice, which is so funny because I think little English kids have the cutest accents ever!

So, her adventure continues and I can't wait to hear more! I'll keep you posted. Be sure to check out other beautiful life adventures at The Inspired Room's Beautiful Life blog party.