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Date: January 10, 2013

Author: astottler

Hey everyone!

I hope you had a great Wednesday! Mine was pretty boring. I’m going to just fly through my meals today.

Breakfast:

Smoothie with 3/4 of a banana, soymilk, plain yogurt, and frozen strawberries and peaches. I topped it with peanut butter. On the side I had some granola, plus half a whole wheat english muffin with strawberry and plain cream cheese.

I ended up going back for more food.

But halfway through I was full so I stopped. The pancakes are never as good as I expect them to be. Probably because I skipped out on syrup (dining hall syrup=disgusting, plus today was my experimental no sugar, sleep better day).

Lunch:

A turkey sandwich with pesto, plus a salad I made for myself last night. The salad had mixed greens, artichoke hearts, tofu, and olive oil and vinegar. I decided to skip the tofu because it was bland and I already had another protein source. I ended up adding the lettuce from the salad to my sandwich to make it more interesting.

Snack:

Peanut Butter Vanilla Protein bars from yesterday.

Dinner was boring, I just ate some food in my room. Peanut butter sandwich:

x2 plus frozen blueberries. I also snacked on some whole wheat crackers and this trail mix:

This trail mix is really interesting. I failed to read the label the first time I tried it and was definitely surprised by the spiciness! This trail mix would probably make a great salad topper as well.

How was my day? I managed to read almost an entire book on my phone today. Which, by the way, is a bad idea. I walked around in a strange daze all day and I felt an intense pull to continue reading, so I couldn’t stop! That will probably be my last for pleasure read of the quarter though because I always really involved in books, and can’t put them down. Plus, reading on a tiny screen for however many hours kind of messes with one’s eyes/brain. I also missed a workout which, long story short, is really bad because it was assigned and we had to report times…I’m definitely going to make ti up but it made me realize I have to be better about scheduling my workouts.

Tomorrow is going to be a death workout early in the morning. It’s a series of mini races on the rowing machine, and it has been known to make people sick. I’m not too concerned bout that happening to me, but I’m still going to eat very light beforehand. I’m glad I had a bland dinner as well, and guess what? No desserts! So it will be interesting to see the impact it has on my sleeping. I’ve also been hydrating like crazy in preparation!

What else is new with me? As I try to work out my new schedule, I’m realizing a few things. Since my meal plan allows me 14 meals a week, I get 2 meals in a dining hall per day (on average). Last quarter, I never came close to using all my meals, partly because I didn’t realize that I had enough time between classes to go to a dining hall for lunch. However, with my new schedule, I’ve realized a few things. 1. The dining hall food is probably worst at dinner time. 2. Smoothies are delicious, and I’ve started to crave them for breakfast over oatmeal in my room. 3. By the time I get back from practice in the evening, all my dorm friends have already eaten so it’s not like dinner is a social event. 4. It’s way harder for me to resist sweets in the dining hall at dinner than at lunch.

So, taking all this into consideration, I think I’m going to plan on fending for myself more for dinner. This will take some planning and a lot of creativity, so hopefully I can give you all some delicious recipes that use pantry/fridge staples! I already have a few ideas. 🙂

Have a great day everyone!

Getting Back into It

Date: January 9, 2013

Author: astottler

Categories: Uncategorized

Hey everyone! I hope you had a great day! My day went pretty well! I have some more interesting food things to share with you today!

I got to sleep in this morning as well, no alarm! I didn’t have class until 12:30, but I had to do a workout this morning. I woke up around 7 and decided to make myself some breakfast in my room before my workout. What did I make? Only the best Oatmeal ever! Peanut butter and banana oatmeal!

Banana Oatmeal:

Ingredients:

1 ripe banana

1 packet of plain instant oats (I used quaker)

2/3 c vanilla unsweetened almond milk, or other milk of choice ( I usually eyeball it, less dishes!)

2 egg whites (once again, this is an estimate)

Instructions:

First, mash up the banana in a microwave safe bowl.

Add other ingredients and stir.

Microwave on high for 1.5 minutes (I recommend putting the bowl on a plate and covering in case it overflows)

Stir, and microwave an additional 1.5 minutes.

Enjoy!

I always top mine with a dollop of peanut butter.

Today, I split this into 2 servings, as it is pretty filling, and I was eating fairly close to a workout. Just save the other half in the fridge and enjoy later! It’s good cold as well (or maybe that’s just me…)

For the first time as far as I can remember, I put on too much peanut butter! See?

I couldn’t even finish it! Craziness!

My workout was 60 minutes on the rowing machine, plus 20 minutes on the spin bike. Nothing spectacular. It’s interesting that after a long time on the rowing machine, I don’t exactly feel more tired, but my power output significantly decreases.

After a sweaty workout, I decided to have some post-workout fuel. I wanted something kind of refreshing, but I didn’t have many ingredients for a smoothie, and who wants to put together and then clean a blender? I’m all about saving the dishes. 😛

So what did I come up with?

Yogurt! I discovered this little creation over break, and simply could not get enough of it. It’s the absolute perfect post workout snack (I’ll get to why later), and it’s super easy and low dish intensive. Just add cocoa powder and brown rice syrup to greek yogurt to taste (I tend to like less sweet, darker chocolate things), and stir well!

And of course I mixed it in a Dixie cup, right? Don’t want to use those valuable bowls! This yogurt hit the spot perfectly! So why is this the perfect post workout fuel? It’s a combination of protein and carbohydrates, which helps replace anything lost during exercise. (Keep in mind, I’m not a dietician, this just comes from the million books I’ve read plus an awesome Nutrition class last quarter). It’s more natural than a protein shake; you know exactly what you are putting in it. Plus, a lot of times, you don’t need as much protein as is in a protein shake after a workout. I learned in my class that actually, the time you need the most protein is when Your muscles are repairing themselves, which is the time when you are sore. Carbohydrates are a priority, because they are our main source of energy, so that is what gets burned in exercise, mostly. Why is chocolate milk not ideal? The carbohydrates in chocolate milk come from sugar, which is a combination of glucose and fructose, its about half and half. I will definitely get into a conversation about fructose later on, but you really don’t need to replace your fructose stores unless you’ve been running a marathon, and to get enough glucose to replace what you lost through drinking chocolate milk, you are probably getting more fructose than is healthy. Glucose is what is mainly burned in exercise. It is what the body burns for energy (the brain needs it as well), and brown rice syrup is a great source of glucose. I will definitely get into fructose and glucose at a later date (it’s one of my favorite topics EVER).

After my snack, I got ready for the day and dealt with various random things until lunchtime, which was early because I had class at 12:30 and I needed to get textbooks beforehand. Lunch:

Salad with raspberry dressing and dried cranberries, teriyaki tofu over brown rice, and some type of sauteed kale/cabbage. It was actually a really good lunch. The tofu was really good, it actually wasn’t fried like it normally is, so it was soft as opposed to weird and hard. I think lunch at my dining hall is always fairly good, definitely better than dinner, but I hardly wen tat all last quarter because I had class around lunchtime. Though I think they stepped it up midway through the year.

I also had some fruit and a little bit of pasta because I really wanted to try it.

I’m in an Animal Behavior class this quarter, and I’m super excited for it. It looks really cool, and I learned some random things just on the first day. Did you know that many human couples have similar lengths of middle fingers? How random!

Before practice, I rushed back to my room to grab a bar.

It was a little bit sweeter than what I wanted, and I wished I had made the granola bars I had been wanting to make. Practice was uneventful, which is probably good.

Dinner was a salad (garden) with grilled chicken and cornbread (which was really good, haven’t had cornbread here before).

I also had a cup of cereal (although it was sugary cereal). I’m trying to wean myself off of eating so much sugar, but it’s definitely difficult! Back at my dorm someone brought in a ton of random pies, and I tried some that I think was chocolate cream.

Tonight was also the night of my guacamole party, which was at least planned. And my guacamole party, I mean a couple of friends and I made guacamole with some avocados I brought from home, plus limes, onions, and tomatoes stolen from the dining hall salad bar. Mash together, add some salt and pepper, and we were set!

Eaten with tortilla chips of course. Afterwards, I decided to make some protein bars I’ve had my eye on for some time now. I made Peanut Butter Vanilla Protein Bars, from After the Ivy League. I was a little worried about making anything with my protein powder, as I’ve never baked with it before (although these bars are no cook, yay!), and I’m not a big fan of the taste of the kind I have, but these bars turned out well! I added a little bit less protein powder than it calls for because I got scared, but they had really good flavor, and I nibbled at the edges quite a bit. They’re in the freezer now to harden, but from what I can tell they’re a definite win!

Tomorrow, no on the water practice, and no morning workout, so I can sleep in (relatively). Even though I slept in today, I was really tired by the middle of the day. I didn’t sleep that well last night, and I couldn’t figure out why, until I remembered other nights like this, when I’m really warm and tossing and turning all night. I’m almost positive it’s from too much sugar before bed. I had this problem a lot before the holidays when I ate a lot of junk, and I remember how much better I slept when I cut out sugar for a few days. So, goal for tomorrow? No sugar! It’s going to be a little experiment. To be honest, I can already tell I’m going to have a lot of work this quarter, and not that much time, so I need to make the most of the sleep I can get!

Back in Action

Date: January 8, 2013

Author: astottler

Categories: Uncategorized

Today was my first day back! Overall, it was a good day, but I’m starting to realize how tired I am now. I was feeling tired early last night, and a power outage in my dorm gave me the perfect excuse to go to bed early. As a result, I woke up a little before my alarm, yay! Before morning workouts, I usually have some type of quick bread and a cup of milk, but I forgot to get milk from the dining hall last night. Whenever I’m home, I make some type of quick bread and freeze it. I actually got my own freezer for my room so I can have a ton of different options for breakfast, because I have a ton of early workouts. Last quarter I had practice at 5:45 am most mornings, on the water. What was my preworkout fuel today? Banana bread!

I’ve been waiting for an excuse to post the recipe for my favorite banana bread! Here is the recipe, it’s super healthy and low to no sugar, depending on your preferences. I got it from Nancy Clark’s Nutrition book (there’s also an app with all the recipes). So here’s the recipe, which I’ve modified slightly:

Ingredients:

4 well ripened bananas

1 large egg or 2 egg whites

2 tablespoons canola oil

1/3 c milk

1/8 c honey (or more to taste, recipe actually calls for 1/3 to 1/2 c sugar)

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1.5 c whole wheat pastry flour

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350

Mash bananas.

Add all ingredients except flour and mix well

Blend in flour, stir until moistened

Pour into 4×8 loaf pan, I recommend lining it in tinfoil

Bake for 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center is clean

Let cool for 5 minutes (in theory, i NEVER do)

135 cal, serves 12

For this particular batch that I ate from this morning, I added no sweetener, and added blueberries. Yum!

After enjoying my banana bread, I biked over to weights. In shorts and a sweatshirt. Bad idea. It was probably in the 30s, and I couldn’t feel my hands AT ALL by the time I got there. This is the first time I’ve done weights as part of rowing, and it was interesting. I’m really glad I’ve done a ton of weights already and know how to do all the exercises, because the trainer basically demonstrated what we were doing once, and expected us to do it. He didn’t teach the new people how to do snatches, or anything like that, and I cringed watching them. I just hope no one hurts themselves! The type of weights we did were endurance weights, which was different and kind of strange. Most of the exercises were with an empty bar, but we did a ton of reps of each exercise, without much of a break between sets. For example, we did sets of 40 squats with just the bar. I’m used to ding like 3-5 squats, with a heavy weight on. But it was a good workout. Immediately after weights, we had to do a timed run (it doesn’t have to be right after, but most people do it then because it was convenient). I finished the run in 34:08. The run is a loop of campus, and I think it’s probably around 4 miles, maybe less. It was a comfortable pace to me, and I think it compared decently to other people’s times. The funny thing was that I apparently do the run in the opposite direction as most people, so I passed post of the team at some point going the opposite way, and it was fun to give high fives. Great motivation!

After the run, I rushed to breakfast so I would have time to shower before class. Breakfast was a letdown. I was banking on a smoothie, and all the smoothie ingredients were out, but there were no blenders. And I wanted to grab bread for lunch because I didn’t think I’d have time to go to lunch, but all I could grab was a whole wheat english muffin.

Ok I totally forgot to take a picture of breakfast, but it wasn’t that exciting. I had a bowl of yogurt with frozen fruit (wanna-be smoothie), which was soooo cold, plus half a whole wheat english muffin with regular and strawberry cream cheese, plus some scrambled eggs.

After showering, I was getting my things together, and decided to make a peanut butter sandwich with the english muffin for lunch, when I realized I couldn’t find the english muffin. I searched everywhere! I mean, who the heck loses an english muffin?? My theory is that I left it at the dining hall, which would be preferable to finding it in 2 months.

I didn’t think I’d be able to return to my room before practice, so I tried to subtly dress for practice. Scarves hide all!

Like the new scarf?

I had 2 morning classes. I thought I was going to be booked through until practice, but I ended up not having a chem section so I was able to get a real lunch. I’m optimistic about my classes this quarter. I wasn’t a big fan of my classes last quarter. My math class (linear algebra) was the hardest class I’ve ever taken in my life, by far. It was also pretty painful. I’m actually looking forward to my math class this quarter. It is Multivariable Calculus, which I actually took in high school, and the topic just makes so much more sense to me.

Since I was planning on a peanut butter sandwich for lunch, I decided to do that at the dining hall.

Pb on whole wheat bread. I was planning on just having a garden salad with it, but I couldn’t pass up some type of brussels sprout salad either. Plus, I had to have one of the stuffed tomatoes, stuffed with breadcrumbs and cheesy goodness. And of course, I came prepared.

I brought my own peanut butter! I’ve probably consumed a ton of trans fat in the form of peanut butter at the dining halls here and at training camp, so I really want to prevent that.

Are you ever influenced by watching people eat? I have a bad habit of seeing someone eat something, and then deciding I have to have it, like it was somehow justified because someone else was eating it too. I never realized that would happen when I saw a stranger eating something. That led to this

It’s some type of raspberry crumble bar. It’s oaty with raspberry filling, and is pretty good, but nothing special, it’s at the dining halls all the time.

After lunch I stopped by my dorm to grab a jacket for practice; BEST DECISION EVER, practice was cold! I had one more class of the day before practice. I was a bit concerned about getting to the pick up location by 3:15 if class ended at 3:05, but there was another girl from my team in my class, and we made it no problem. Before practice, I snacked on this:

It’s by far my favorite NuGo bar. It has way more flavor than the other NuGo Slim bars, and the regular NuGo bars are too sweet for me.

Practice mostly consisted of re-reigging the boats. We had the world’s shortest row afterward. However, something did happen. We got stuck in the sand. I never realized that a) that was possible and b) I should be concerned about it. The tide was super low today, so I guess that was the problem. It was bizarre, we were rowing along, and then all the sudden it got heavy and we weren’t moving. Since I was in the back of the boat (but the front in terms of what hits the sand first), I was about ready to climb out and start pushing. We ended up getting out of it by backing, but in the process we came dangerously close to hitting a channel marker. It definitely didn’t help that it had already gotten dark. There’s something really cool about rowing in the dark, it’s so peaceful, but it can also be difficult when I can’t see the water. I’ve never rowed at night before, but I think I prefer rowing in the early morning.

We made it back in time for dinner (yay), although dinner wasn’t spectacular.

Spinach salad with raspberries, which was good, but eating spinach is difficult to do neatly. I had some steamed cabbage and brown rice, and some random roasted veggies with mushroom gravy, plus a few potatoes. I topped it with a piece of grilled chicken for protein. It was an ok meal, nothing to write home about. Dessert?

It’s definitely a dangerous thing to have unlimited access to frozen yogurt. I had half vanilla half chocolate, with cocoa puffs and peanut butter (yes, the trans fatty kind. ugh.). Some habits die hard, and apparently having chocolate peanut butter and cereal was a habit I developed at camp. I was feeling pretty decent about my day of eating, not too bad for a first day back.

However. Back in my dorm….I chatted with some of my friends, who happened to share my love of food, which naturally ended in snacks. They were reasonably healthy, dried fruit and nuts, plus naturally I had to finally crack open my favorite peanut butter! I also opened my new 99% cocoa dark chocolate. I love super dark chocolate. I will eat straight baker’s chocolate, but 99% is so much better because it was way smoother. But my roommate also brought back a Costco sized pack of Hazelnut chocolates….

I have the tendency to want to eat whenever anyone else eats. Sympathy eating, if you will. If I want to survive college, it’s probably not the best thing. Especially if I’m eating meals with my crew teammates who are a foot taller than me and outweigh me by like 50 lbs. At least if I want them to still outweigh me by 50 lbs! Tomorrow I’m having a Guacamole party with the avocados I brought from home, so I want to try to plan that into my day in terms of meals. What concerns me most is if my food gets in the way of my workout. And as my workout intensity increases, nutrition is key. As I said before, old habits die hard. So basically I just need to get back into better habits. As I think I’ve talked about before in another post, I’m a huge underdog in terms of rowing. I need to take every advantage I can get, and my knowledge of nutrition could be that edge I need. Interestingly enough, I find that when I’m better at resisting sweets, I’m also better at pushing myself through physical pain on while rowing. Go figure. Here’s to a healthy week! The good news? Tomorrow’s workout is on my own, and no class until 12:30 so I get to sleep in !

How was your day?

Back Home

Date: January 7, 2013

Author: astottler

Categories: Uncategorized

I’m finally back at school! It feels good to be back. Before I got here, I didn’t feel ready to be back, but now I couldn’t be happier! Classes start tomorrow, along with my new practice schedule. I’m a little bit nervous for it. My schedule is basically full from 6 in the morning until 7 at night.

First, I need to remark: my internet connection here is amazing! My photos uploaded so fast! Even faster than at home. It’s awesome. A note: I have already lost 3 blog posts due to poor internet connection, and had to completely rewrite them (yesterday’s included). So I’m pretty happy about this. How was my day?

I woke up at 4:40 in order to get on the road. I slept for the first 2 hours, which was nice. Then, we stopped at Starbucks to switch drivers and grab breakfast.

I had a Spinach and Feta egg white wrap and a strawberry smoothie. The wrap was good but the smoothie wasn’t my favorite. I could taste the protein powder a little too much.

Not of lot of excitement happened on the trip. Lunch was at Subway:

Turkey with avocado, spinach, and tomatoes. This used to be my go-to meal during softball tournaments! I was happy to be able to have some healthy meals while on the road! During the trip I also had a couple of bars and a handful of peanut butter M&Ms.

Overall, we made really good time! Only 7.5 hours, including 2 stops! I pretty much read a book on my phone the whole time. It was a nice ride. When I got back, I had to unpack everything, some of which I still need to do. I had to go fill up my bike tires as well, which was interesting, considering I know absolutely nothing about bikes. I went with a friend, and neither of us was able to figure out how to put air in my tires, but luckily a nice person waiting in line behind us helped us out! I spent the erst of the afternoon figuring out textbooks and catching up with my dorm friends.

I’ve noticed a change in myself since I went to camp. I’m more talkative and confident. It’s really interesting how a week and a half trip can change you. I don’t really understand it.

Another awesome thing: I ordered a calendar from Costco, with photos of my cats on it, and I just got it!

Since I’m realizing I never shared a photo of my room, here one from the very first day, before my pictures started falling off the walls (seriously, NOTHING sticks to these walls).

I’m realizing I never shared my avocados with you! I have an avocado plant in my room, which I sprouted from a pit! I absolutely love my avocado, it’s my baby. Hey, if I can’t have pets, I have to have something! Here it is as a baby:

And here is a more recent picture!

Unfortunately, my avocado lived in the garage while I was home, and didn’t get enough sun, so it is looking pretty brown right now. Hopefully being back at its normal location will fix the problem! This picture is from the summer, when it was still living outside. I have another one as well, but I think they’re different varieties, and the other one needs more sun than my dorm room can provide, so it lives outside at home. Unfortunately, it has been so cold lately that I’ve had to bring them into the garage.

After getting mostly settled, I headed out to dinner! I actually kind of missed the dining hall! DInner was pretty good today, I had some type of tofu dish that was maybe vaguely teriyaki, which was overall pretty good, but the tofu itself wasn’t great (it almost never is here). It was vaguely fried without much flavor. I had that over brown rice, and caesar salad, which I was really excited for, because I’ve been wishing forever that my local dining hall would have prepared salads, and this was the first time they did!

I ended up going back for a piece of garlic bread, and some dim sum chicken thing (the lines were super long when I got there, but empty when I returned), which were both pretty tasty.

I couldn’t give up on my cereal for dessert thing I have going, so I ate some raisin bran with chocolate milk and peanut butter. I also had a couple of chocolate chip cookies. I’m realizing that I probably shouldn’t be eating 3 plates of food every meal now that I’m back from training camp and working out every minute, because I’m totally stuffed!

I also stole a couple of bananas from the dining hall. Bananas are a big thing here, the moment there are put out, everyone instantly grabs them up to take back to their rooms for later.

Tomorrow morning I have weights for the first time, which I am pretty excited for. I love lifting, but I’m also a bit nervous because I have no idea what is in store for me. Wish me luck tomorrow!

How do you feel about starting something new?

Goodbye San Diego!

Date: January 6, 2013

Author: astottler

Categories: Uncategorized

Today was my last row! Tomorrow I’m leaving San Diego bright and early! 5 am depart, woo hoo! I’m a bit concerned that I won’t get back to campus until Sunday night before classes start. I fee so unprepared! I don’t have books and I haven’t looked at my schedule! I guess I can figure that all out tomorrow night…
BEfore I get into this post, I apologize for the issues with formatting with my last post, and I apologize for this post in that I can’t get the pictures where I need them. I believe this is a result of my bad internet connection combined with my own incompetence. Sorry!
So without further ado, here are today’s pictures!

Breakfast at the hotel (for the last time, finally):
A whole wheat bagel with cream cheese, eggs, and an orange. I also had a muffin and a few fruit loops on the side. (I must admit I have a weakness for fruit loops when I’m staying at hotels).
Lunch was my last time eating at the cafeteria in the training center so I wanted to make it count! I started with a salad with red wine vinegar and olive oil, plus salt and pepper. For my main dish, I tried the corn flake crusted chicken but I realized I don’t really like fried chicken so I gave up on it pretty quickly. Instead, for protein I added some sliced turkey to my salad. I also had a cinnamon raisin english muffin with butter, because, well, it’s my last opportunity!
For dessert, I had a taste of chocolate froyo, plus oat bran cereal with chocolate Silk soymilk and peanut butter. I miss my peanut butter at home! The peanut butter at the hotel has trans fat and sugar and is kind of gross. I would like to think that the peanut butter at the Olympic training center at least doesn’t have trans fat, but it definitely has sugar. The peanut butter at the dining halls at school is that trans fatty kind. When I asked the person in charge of dining at my dorm what type of peanut butter it was, she told me, “It’s the kind with trans fat, not the natural kind, but I like it.” Yummm clogged arteries! So yes. I was “that girl” who brought her own peanut butter to the dining halls. No shame. I love my peanut butter! 🙂 But what if an unplanned peanut butter craving strikes? What am I to do then? In the past, I was forced to indulge in the trans fatty kind, but this quarter, I’m prepared. I got a bunch of the individual serving Justin’s peanut butters, and I intend on carrying them around with me everywhere I go.
I’ll explain the other pictures later, let’s get back to my day!
We had an 8 am depart, so it was nice to sleep late again (well, relatively). During our row this morning, my hands hurt so much! I have never really gotten blisters from rowing, until yesterday, and today they were killing me! To be fair, they are pretty tiny blisters, but they still hurt, and it’s definitely new to me! I’m used to having hands of steel! After our row, we had to de-rig the boats and load them onto our trailer for the long drive home. Once that was done, we headed to our last lunch at the training center. I wanted to grab some more Special K bars but they were all gone. I ended up eating 2 other bars.
After lunch, we went to the Olympic store, and I bought a USA rowing t-shirt so I can march around pretending to be an Olympic rower.
We were supposed to go on a hike for our afternoon workout, but we were behind schedule, and when we got to the location we were supposed to hike from, we learned that the only way our hike leader knew to get to the trail was through a golf course that didn’t allow pedestrians. Instead, we drove closer to the beach and parked, and walked through downtown La Jolla, to the beach. The picture above is the scene we met at the bottom: a sunset on the beach! What an amazing picture!
Afterwards, we went to a nearby teammate’s house for dinner/a team party. The house was absolutely beautiful, and the last picture above is the view from their back balcony. The family brought in caterers who made us delicious Mexican food. I had a chicken taco, plus rice, beans, and of course, tortilla chips and guacamole. I’ve been seriously avocado deprived since I’ve been at camp, so I needed to capitalize on the opportunity! The family also ordered 125 mini Sprinkles cupcakes, which were easily devoured. I tried the Red Velvet, and chocolate with white icing. Both were good, but had a ton of frosting. I also snacked on peanut butter pretzels and M&Ms. Needless to say, I am so stuffed right now! After dinner, we had a white elephant style gift exchange. The gift I brought was well received; it was a sleep mask with an elephant face on it, complete with the trunk! I received a t-shirt with an alligator on it, which I am pumped to wear to practice. It was so much fun seeing all the wacky things people received. This was such a fun night, and a great end to camp.
Well, I better be off to bed! I have a long day ahead of me! We leave at 5, and who knows how long the drive will be with traffic and whatnot.
What do you do on long drives?