Bikini Show, No Show

Hi Friends!

This past weekend there was a bodybuilding show (NPC Pennsylvania Natural) right here in Pittsburgh! I have had this on my calendar since July so that I could go and observe my first show to see what it is like. You can image how excited I was all day Saturday- as giddy as a kid on Christmas...fa-la-la-la-la...la-la...la-la....

I got dolled up (hey, anything other than workout clothes is considered "dolled up" these days) and Hubbs and I headed to the show. Finals began at 6pm, but since I was primping, we didn't leave until about 6:30 pm. I wasn't worried though, because from all the blogs I've read, I knew the show would be going on for hours. It was about a 40 minute drive to the Carnegie Music Hall, but I rambled on and on in excitement all the way there. *Sidenote- My husband is going straight to Heaven for listening to me talk non-stop about competition, diet, exercise, supplements, etc. for months.*

We got to the venue and dropped $50 on two tickets to the show. We walked in a small auditorium that looked like an old theater (picture above, only it is now painted red) and I was surprised there weren't a whole lot of people in the audience. Maybe 100? We walked in right as 3 figure girls were posing and they were about to announce the winner. I took the crappiest photo ever taken with a camera phone..

Unfortunately, right after the winner was announced, two men came out and flexed and posed and we looked at the program and realized...WE'D MISSED BIKINI!!! We were both a little irked and thought it was worth going back to see if we could get our money back, because I kid you not, we were there l-i-t-e-r-a-l-l-y there all of two minutes..120 seconds... By the time we sat down and I got my camera out of my purse to take a pic, we realized our mistake.

They wouldn't give us our money back even though I tried to explain that I only came to see bikini since I'm competing and since we weren't there even 5 minutes it'd be nice to have a refund since they didn't failed to tell us as we were paying that it was pretty much over at 7pm. If we had been there 30 minutes or so, I wouldn't have asked for money back, but in less than 5 minutes, I thought it was worth asking because it was only men from then out. We left pretty disappointed and irritated and I, especially, was upset since we paid $50 for nothing. Grrr! I really didn't want my first time to see bikini live to be one where *I* was the one "live". Oh well!

Sunday was a rest day for me and, boy, did I need it! I was draggin' toward the end of last week and really feeling the HIIT and interval sprint workouts and needed just do nothing. Turns out, I'm pretty good at doing nothing HA! It felt good to recover and aside from church and meeting my in-laws for brunch, the only other things we did were go to Costco and later to my Hunk's soccer game. Their team lost, but I made sure he knew he was a winner in my book. I'm his biggest cheerleader! Goooooooooo Hubbs!

In other news:

* I still have DOMS from Saturday's killer leg workout...yeah, since Saturday..oy!

* There is now a "3" in front of the days on my Droid countdown widget. I have 39 days until my first bikini show...GULP!

* I've decided to scrap the November 13th show in San Antonio and just do the November 20th show the following weekend in WV, because it will be less stressful and cost less for my first show. I'm sad I won't see my family next month, but I'll send tons of pics and will see them in TX for Christmas a little later:)

*I've been having frequent "nightmares" where I eat a bunch of Halloween candy and gain a ton of weight and am relieved when I wake up to know it was just a dream...whew!

*My nightly casein shakes have single-handedly saved me from buying an entire bag of said Halloween candy and eating myself into a coma...SOOO good, like a Wendy's Frosty!

GNC casein powder + 1 tbs Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa + 2 tbs PB2 + 1/2 c UVAB + 1 tbs SF Banana Creme Jello Pudding

*I've been alternating using Tempt hemp milk with almond milk the past week and really like it! It's slightly higher in fat (6 grams) so I only use 1/2 c at a time, but I saw I had some that expires at the end of the month and thought I'd use it up. Apparently, it boasts good nutrition stats...Omega 3 +6, Calcium, Vitamin D

Don't worry- you won't get the "munchies" drinking hemp milk HAHA!

Have you ever tried Hemp milk?

What are you looking forward to in the next 39 days?