December 6, 2010

Ahh, my first day back at work in a week. It was actually a pretty boring day as far as work goes, which is good, cause I wasn't really in the mood to be running around like a crazy person.

For breakfast I had a hard boiled egg and two red plums:

Don't you love my glamorous ziploc bags? :)

Lunch was the usual that we normally get on Mondays, a little place called L&L Drive Inn right down the road. Many people love this place, but honestly I find it quite gross. The food is super greasy and not very tasty either. When your boss is buying lunch though, you just have to deal with whatever he wants to eat. I always try to get something with some semblance of nutritional value, so I got the BBQ chicken plate:

I peeled the skin off the chicken, because I HATE skin on chicken, almost as much as I hate bone in chicken, ughhh nasty. I never eat the sides, mainly because mac salad has way too much mayo for my taste and the rice is just...plain. I need more flavor!

After work, I met up with Tammy at the gym just in time for Zumba class. According to the heart rate monitor, I burnt 430 calories, yay!

For dinner, I decided to do BBQ chicken my way, since I already had some cooked chicken left over from the chicken tacos in last night dinner.

Annie's mac and cheese

crescent rolls

plate: shredded chicken with Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce and my sides.

It was SO much better than lunch, hahaha!
Now it's off to work for me, and then to the gym tonight.

December 4 and 5, 2010

December 4 was zipline day :)
It was very fun, but didn't last as long as we wanted it to. There weren't really any meals on that day either because we left home so early and got back fairly late, it was mostly a snaking kind of day, but we did indulge in one thing that they have in maui that they don't have here on Oahu, and that would be...Krispy Kreme!

I was so excited, I took a picture.

My breakfast

After that we drove around and enjoyed the scenery for a while, because Maui is so much calmer and rural that anywhere on Oahu, it was amazing and very peaceful. No traffic or anything. Then it was time to zip!

Mom ziplining

Zach ziplining

Zach and I ziplining together

It was a fun day. 

December 5 was my  mom's last day here, so we wanted to get in as much stuff as we could. That morning we got up and went to the Pali Lookout and to Diamond Head, and to a lighthouse near Diamond Head that she wanted some pictures of. After that, we went to Macy's and she got me a steam mop, so that should be much better than the old fashioned one I had that doesn't even have a thing to wring it out with, haha.

The original plan after that was to go to North Shore, but we decided to forgo that, as there was most likely far too many people out on that side of the island. Instead, we ate a small snack (sour cream and onion chex mix, which was interesting...very strongly flavored for sure), and decided on chicken tacos for dinner.

 

For the tacos, I boil a chicken breast (one chicken breast was enough to make 6 tacos) and then shred it up with two forks. While I'm shredding, I put a can of tomato juice and some spices on the stovetop to let it simmer and reduce some so it's thick enough to really coat the chicken when I add the chicken. After that, I mix the chicken in and let it cook down for about 5-7 more minutes.

Spices and whatnot for the taco mix

Spices added to a can of spicy tomato juice

shredded chicken added to tomato juice mixture/black beans on the back burner

spanish rice, of course

My plate :)

December 3, 2010

Today we slept in a little later then we have been since my mom got here to visit. When we got up, we went to Target, my favorite store, then to Ross and the bank. When we got back to the house, the popular opinion for lunch was Denny's so we went there and I had scrambled eggs, hash browns and wheat toast. It was okay. I didn't take any pictures though.

After lunch, we decided to go to the beach at Ko Olina Resort. It is very beautiful out there.

Don't mind the horrible farmer's tan :) It's from hiking

Aw, I love my hubby

After the beach, we came home and I made spaghetti and meatballs with homemade marinara sauce and garlic bread.

tomato puree, half a Maui onion, whole head of garlic, and spices

meatball spices/seasonings

meatballs: pre baking

post baking

my bowl

Tomorrow we are going to Maui to zipline and I am very excited about it. I'm glad my mom said she wanted to do it, so the next blog will be full of awesome pictures I'm sure :)

December 2, 2010

So this post is going to be a culmination of the last 3 days that I didn't get to blog.

On November 30, we got up at around 7 a.m. and went to the gym. I did 28 minutes on the bike, 28 minutes on the elliptical (my favorite cardio machine) and 20 minutes in the weight room. I ended up burning 865 calories according to the amazing heart rate monitor :). After that we came home and had breakfast. I made a very quick and easy breakfast burrito of sorts: tortilla, 1 scrambled egg, mexican cheese, and salsa.

After our breakfast, we went to the North Shore of the island to go to Waimea Falls. It's a nice trail with a botanical garden that leads to a waterfall.

When we were all done with that, we were pretty tired and not really in the mood to cook, so the decision was made that we would go to one of my favorite restaurants of all time...CPK! I had their white corn guacamole, and 2 pieces of Zach's chipotle chicken/tostada pizza. It was amazing. For dessert we decided to top it off with some red velvet cake :)

YUM!

December 1 we went biking in the morning (461 calories) and met up with my good friend Tammy and did a hike up the Makapuu Lighthouse Trail in Hawaii Kai. It was beautiful and we even went off the trail and climbed up part of the mountain surrounding the trail. We love hiking, so it was awesome, even though we took the wrong route back down the side of the mountain, haha. All together this hike burnt about 738 calories for me.

Mom and I

Tammy and I

Makapu'u Lighthouse

 After that, we came home and made roasted pork tenderloin, brussels sprouts, cheesy cauliflower, and mac n cheese for the hubby.

 And then we had some post dinner cupcakes from a little place called Cake Couture in Aina Haina. Delicious!

Faux-stess cupcake

 

Mocha cupcake

And then today, my 23rd birthday, we got up and went to Target to see if they had a new shipment of Kinects in because that's what my mom wanted to get Zach and I for Christmas...and they had 4! So we got a Kinect and it's pretty fun :)

After the Kinect we went on another hike, Koko Head. This is referred to by many as nature's stairmaster, or stairway to hell, hahaha. It's pretty intense, but it burnt 980 calories, so it was very worth it, and the views are beautiful as well.

After that, we came home, played Kinect, and got ready to go to my birthday dinner at Los Chaparros, a small mexican restaurant that has the best tacos on the island for sure, and their appetizer, the Jalapeno Wontons are out of this world!

Jalapeno wontons

Taco/enchilada plate

                               Birthday Flan:                                               Sombrero:

Family :)

And then I had another cupcake. Hahaha.

Until next time :)