Notes from the crib

DH and George had a boys' afternoon and evening together last night. They ran errands and helped one of DH's car-less friends go shopping for bookcases and other household furniture. DH said that George was such a good sport and had fun hanging with the men.

Meanwhile, I had a girly afternoon with some friends. One of my friends is going through a rough time, so we decided to have a girls-only day of pampering. It started off with pedicures for all (and then a few also got manicures and brow waxing).

Then we moved on to our local ritzy shopping complex for a makeover at the department store makeup counter, and then a stop in the specialty chocolate shoppe for truffles. Next up was dinner at a nice local restaurant. It is prom season, so we got to giggle at all the prom groups and have our jaws drop at the risque clothing today's teens are wearing. We decided our mothers would have never let us out of the houses dressed as these girls were. And the accessories! I could have bought enough groceries to feed my family for two months with the money these girls had spent on their handbags. I had the most fabulous dessert at dinner - it was a piece of raspberry peanut butter pie. It was kind of a light peanut butter cheesecake with a top layer of raspberry, and then covered with a hard chocolate top, all on a graham cracker crust.

After dinner, we decided to go hang out at Dave & Busters. We played skeeball, a shooting gallery game, and then discovered video boxing. I loved the boxing! It's a virtual reality game where you wear boxing gloves, give and take punches, and have to move around in order to avoid being punched by the video opponent. My first attempt I ranked 75th, which I thought was pretty good. We took a couple hour break at the bar, enjoying beverages and watching the NBA playoffs and pro rodeo bull riding. After resting, I returned to the boxing game and kicked butt! I ended up ranking 13th! We took a picture to prove it, and I'm amused to see that the video boxing must not have been programmed by someone with a good command of the English language - note the ranking.

Today, my arms and shoulders are so very sore from the boxing. The game calculated calories burned, and I think mine were somewhere close to 400 calories for my two boxing matches. My muscles can attest, it really was a great workout!