July 4, 2011: Waverly

Medifast Status: Day 63, Down ~38.5lbs

We had to be up early this morning so that we could get everyone packed and be on the road by eight thirty.  We were supposed to be moving by eight but it was all that we could do to get out when we did.  We have a lot of people to get ready and lots of kids to pack into cars.   We managed to get everyone into either the Sequoia or the Acadia, though, which was awesome.  That is a lot of people to squeeze into just two cars.  And three dogs as well.

It was a really nice day for the drive from Frankfort to Waverly which is nearly three hours and one hundred and forty miles.

It was great weather for the Doty family annual reunion in Waverly.  We had a really nice time out there but did not stay as long as we have in the past.  We arrived around eleven or eleven thirty and stayed until five thirty.  It is a long drive back and without a nap the kids, especially Liesl and Garrett, will be exhausted and unhappy.

On the way home we hit Tom Horton’s for some coffee and donuts.  Liesl loves donut holes.

July 2, 2011: Checking Out the Bistro

Medifast Status: Day 61, Down ~38.5lbs

For lunch today Emily and I walked to The Bistro, a new restaurant than opened in January on Main Street in Frankfort, and got take away for the family.  It is a small restaurant in what used to be a pizza parlor.  I spoke to the owners and they said that they are doing well there.  There is no question that it is a unique dining experience here in Frankfort.

I am working all weekend this weekend, which is unfortunate as it is a three day weekend, but as there was the funeral last weekend and the wedding next this was the only option.  So I spent the day on the laptop working mostly as if it was a normal work day.

I mostly brought home food for Dominica.  Due to a miscommunication between the people at the house and those of us at The Bistro, I ended up bringing home two sandwiches instead of one.  The upside was that we got to try more of their food.  Notably we tried the portobello mushroom panini which was excellent – and Liesl ended up eating at least half of it herself!  We also got to try the eggplant parm sub which was quite good too.  I am very sad that there is no real food from The Bistro for me to eat.  My diet just makes it way too hard to get anything at a normal restaurant and they have no fish options here.

For dinner this evening we all went out to Denny’s in Herkimer.  Other than that it was a rather quiet evening.

 

July 1, 2011: Sam and Provi’s Fortieth

Medifast Status: Day 60, Down ~38.5lbs

Two months on Medifast.  Still a very long way to go, though.  The jump start program that I am on is slated for twenty-seven weeks.  Two months is a relatively small portion of twenty-seven weeks.

I worked from the house again today.  Nothing exciting until this evening when we all went in to Utica for Sam and Provi’s surprise 40th anniversary party.  We had originally thought that we were not going to be able to make it to the party because we were not coming up to New York until tonight – that is leaving Texas late this evening around eight and arriving sometime on Sunday morning – but since we were in Ohio for the funeral we were able to make it to the surprise party too.

The party was at the Radisson in downtown Utica.  I’m not sure that I have ever been to the Radisson before.  It is right downtown so I know it well, but I don’t believe that I have ever been into it.  We have stayed at the Hotel Utica right down the street in the past.

It was a really nice party and amazingly, even with a huge turnout, we managed to pull it off as a surprise.

June 30, 2011: Summer in Frankfort

Medifast Status: Day 59, Down ~38.5lbs

Today is our first full day in Frankfort for our annual summer trip.  Most of the day was spent at the house.  I am working from the laptop all day.

This evening we had to run to the tux shop to get me measured for the wedding.  We are just over one week from the wedding and today was the last possible day to get fitted.

From the tux shop in New Hartford we drove into Utica to meet the family at Nicky Doodles, the new ice cream shop there.  I couldn’t eat anything, though, and sat in the car with Luciana because of all of the mosquitoes gathering around the ice cream.  They had sugar free, fat free ice cream but even that was about two hundred calories which would cost me two of my Medifast meals in calories and that is a pretty big deal so I was not going to do that.

After we got back from ice cream, Emily and I headed out for a walk.  We walked from Frankfort to Ilion which, according to Google maps, is 2.5 miles in one direction making for an even five mile walk.  Definitely some good exercise.