Day Four: Sea Bird Watching and a Picnic

I woke up feeling pretty sluggish, so I made a chocolate & maca shake and it perked me right up.  My side of the family invited us all to a sea bird festival, but Jason had to work, so Jahn and I went with my mom, dad, sister, her husband & son.  We packed a picnic lunch of strawberries, grapes, Clementine oranges, chocolate syrup, strawberry syrup, chocolate cheesecake and lemon cheesecake.  Jahn and I stayed totally raw, despite being surrounded by peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, bologna sandwiches, Cheetos, Doritos, juice boxes and hard-boiled eggs (left over from Easter).  I made sure to pack the cheesecake because I knew that it would fill us up quickly so we wouldn’t be tempted to eat the other things.

But the picnic was the last part of our outing.  First, we went to the funnest little festival.  It was all about sea birds, and there were real birds from a sanctuary there (permanent residents that are too old or injured to be returned to the wild), free games, prizes, face painting, a nature hike and a ferry boat ride!  Jahn and his cousin Ben got to actually drive the boat!  It only held 16 people, so it was very cozy, and the boys were beyond proud of themselves for actually steering under the Captain’s supervision.  Too fun!  And they even got Honorary Captain certificates to commemorate the day.

Then it was off to the picnic (which I described above) at a local park, where the boys got to run off the rest of their energy.  I was even able to keep up with them and didn’t need a nap!  Then Ben came over to our house and played with Jahn for a few hours.  Jahn discovered the sweetness of dandelion flowers and was smashing them up and eating them.  Ben wasn’t as keen on it, but we all had a taste and had some fun gathering up flowers and leaves and trying them out.  Worst case scenario, we get a little liver cleansing out of it.

I certainly got my exercise and was ready for bed by 10.  I had a bite of raw pizza with Jahn and the rest of the fruit with chocolate left over from the picnic.  Then, for dessert, we had sliced bananas with raisins on them, drizzled with strawberry and chocolate syrups.  Delicious!  All in all, a great day, and Jason stayed raw all day, too.  Looks like we’re finally on our way!

Day Three: Leftovers & Cheesecake

Not too hard a day today.  But not much to report.  Had lots of chocolate-dipped mangoes today, chocolate-dipped strawberries and chocolate dipped bananas.  Also had left-over chocolate ice cream, left-over fruit salad (of course I sprinkled cacao powder on it!), and I worked on my recipe book.  Organized lots of photos.

Then I went on-line and found some raw food recipes for cheesecake, mixed a few of them together, and came up with a fairly good cheesecake.  Really heavy, in my opinion.  Too many nuts, I think.  Made a mini (4″) lemon one and a chocolate one.  Put strawberry syrup and slices on the lemon one.  Ate a small taste of that one and a small slice of the chocolate one.  I liked the chocolate one a LOT more.  The lemon one was too nutty and not lemony enough.

This little 4" beauty came out pretty darned tasty!

That’s really it.  Not a big, eventful day.  Nice to have less intense days from time-to-time.