Excellent start to our 30 day challenge. So far there have been 19 of us who've weighed in. I have had only one official response to the "push up challenge" from last week and that was from Spambo16. Has anyone else taken the "push up challenge" with us that can beat a 5 push up gain? I'm curious to hear how Jen (jwhited71) did.

I know you've been doing push ups Jen. Can you beat a 5 push up gain?

If you didn't get a chance to post your start weight today, it's not too late. If you want to you can post it in tomorrow's topic if you didn't get the chance to log on today.

Today was a rather relaxing day for me again. I went to Sea World with my youngest daughter and my mother. They have a new exhibit called Antarctica that just opened so we thought we'd check it out. The wait time for the ride/exhibit was 100 minutes. 100 MINUTES AND WE STILL GOT IN LINE!!! Luckily, we only had to wait 60 minutes before we entered the actual building. (Isn't it funny how 60 minutes seems like such a relief when compared to 100?) Anyway, we get into the building, watch a short film about penguins, then we're ushered into this other room to wait in line for the ride that will lead us down to the penguins, which we were told were kept in a room that is only 29 degrees Fahrenheit so I was a little worried about how cold that was going to feel to us flip flop wearing, tank topped Floridians but I was prepared to suck it up. We waited in that room for another 45 minutes while we listened to periodic recording of, "May I have your attention please? Due to technical difficulties, their will be a brief interruption... blah, blah, blah...We recommend that you stay in line...blah, blah, blah..." A part of me wanted to leave in disgust, demanding some sort of reimbursement since I had already waited an hour and 45 minutes in line for this thing, but another part of me was like, "I've already waited in line for almost 2 hours. I'm not leaving now!" But after the 2 hour mark came and went and the fourth, "May I have you attention please?" announcement, I decided to leave in disgust, demanding a ticket to return at our leisure and skip this horrendous line. To which they complied. I was a little shocked at how accommodating they were. They wrote us up a ticket right then and there and then took us directly down to the penguins so we could see them on our way out. And let me tell you...the room with the penguins was no joke. IT WAS FREEZING! We stayed for 3 minutes before we were frozen solid. I do NOT miss the north, that's for sure.

But I've rambled on enough. Good night everyone. I look forward to hearing from you all tomorrow. And Beth (1efcahill), thank you for your offer of a tour if I'm ever on the "right" coast. I'll take you up on that if I ever find myself in your neck of the woods.

♥ Diana