exploration

Deb tells me this morning that she had a coupon for 2 weeks free @ one of the local gyms so WE needed to check it out together on the way up to her Dr appt. Like I really wanna spend an hour in the waiting room, but since it's Tuesday and neither of us work today might as well get off our butts and check it out. Worst case scenario neither one of us like it and it was a wasted trip.


When we get to the gym and park, this skinny-mini walks out all cute and perky. You know, the ones you just want to run over in your car? Yup, that would be her. We both kind of went, 'well great. but we're here so we might as well go inside.' Oddly enough we saw 5 handicap parking spaces. More than I'd expect to see in front of a gym. Mr. Yummy was working the front desk. He asked us if we could wait for a minute before giving us the tour so that he could check in the ladies that walked thru the door behind us. Turns out that this gym has a program designed for Seniors. Pretty cool. As we're taking the tour we see people of pretty much every shape and size working out. That was a major point in the gym's favor. I DON'T want to work out with only but Ken and Barbie look alikes. As the tour was winding down we turned the corner & see a UPS guy looking slightly lost. Mr. Yummy asks if he needs a signature and when the response is affirmative tells UPS guy that next time just grab one of the guys running around in a shirt. Smart a** that I am mutters to Deb, "ya, as apposed to the naked ones". Which of course she snickers too. When he asked, we did tell him the joke. Thankfully he didn't take umbrance to it. Something that Deb and I found cool was that Mr. Yummy treated everyone with respect. He didn't treat me any differently than Debi, nor did he treat us any differently than the Seniors he checked in while we were there.


We didn't sign up at that moment because Deb and I wanted to talk about our impressions, and why start up on our 2 weeks free if it was going to be a few days before we were able to get back. A few hours later Deb and I were both free again so we decided that we'd take the 2 yr old with us and stick her in the daycare room. Daycare hours are a bit restricted which sucks, but since I'll probably be using it mostly after dropping Kira off at school in the mornings it shouldn't affect me often. Even if I wind up using it occasionally (or if Deb and I go work out together and take her 2 yr old) $2/kid for a max of 2 hours isn't bad at all. Unfortunately the time we chose to head up today the daycare room was closed. It is open from 8am- 11am and then again from 5pm-8pm. Sooo we wound up hanging out together, picking up both 8 yr olds and then going back up to the gym around 5:30. That of course meant we had to pay the daycare room for all 3 kids instead of just one. Because of time constraints for this eve we had only about 45 min to exercise, shower. and change. Since I am far from 'in shape' I didn't feel comfortable going to the gym on my own the first time which is why we went together. We did about 25 min on the treadmill (I put mine at a 6 incline & 2.7 mph) then we went to the weight room to work on arms. Bat wings are oh so sexy. 5-10 min in there and I was ready to cry. On the way to shower off we decided to go ahead and try the sauna. On the door it is posted a time limit of 3-5 minutes. It felt so good in there I could have easily laid down and taken a nap. Hence a good reason to follow the time limit. A shower was a definite requirement after the sauna tho lol.

Originally Deb and I were going to try to get back together @ 6am Wednesday morning to exercise again since she has to be to work @ 10 and school doesn't start on Wed till 9:20, but working out kicked both our butts and by 8pm we were both beyond ready to go home and veg. I'm going to try going tomorrow by myself after dropping Bug off at school.