Monday, September 21, 2009

Lobster Fest 2009

Gotta love Panama City Beach. Talk about stellar people watching all day on Sunday! Hadley, her family and myself headed out to Skooners 'the last local beach club' to check out the crazies who crawled out of the woodwork as well as the LOBSTERS! For two days - teams would go out and scuba for these tasty creatures and catch them by HAND! Are you kidding me!?!

Umm...there is no way in hell is would stick my hand in a hole and pull out that guy. But oh man...they taste so good.

Our friend Tim's team ended up winning with a whopper that topped the scales at 10.3 lbs! Congrats Tim!


On the training front - Jason and I have been shopping around for a gym. I'm not a fan of dreamills (except for speed work - they can be helpful with controlled speed) but I do like to lift. I'm not going to lie - I can't stand the gyms where they try to sell you all kinds of crap and make you name your first child 'Golds Gym' if you sign a year contract. And if you try to break your contract - oh man. You don't even want to go there.

Anyway, Hadley came across the 'LORDS GYM' (no lie) close to our house. It's not huge - but they do have a few treadmills, basic machines, and free weights. Perfect. AND they don't charge. Yes. You read that correctly DON'T CHARGE. They just take donations. I would much rather donate money to a church then to pay for bottled water and the he-woman's salary at the front desk at other gyms. So - if you are shopping for a gym in your area - see if you can find the Lords Gym. You'll feel pretty darn good when you leave. :)

Happy monday everyone! Have a great week!!

XO

11 comments:

ONEHOURIRONMAN said...

And you can praise the Lord every day!!
I heard a rumor that they are changing IMFL transition from Boardwalk to down the street due to road construction.
Any local news on that?

Big Daddy Diesel said...

Wow, that is cool about that gym.

Missy said...

AND you can say you're going to the Lords house and stuff and everyone will really think you're going to church. That might just be perrrfect. Holy crap, I can't believe this hasn't been done sooner.

kristen said...

Very cool about the gym. I bet most people make larger donations than they would if they actaully had to pay.

I love that guy in the background totally checking out your backsides! Man, now that I said that I hope that's not your uncle or something....

Amy said...

Does it double as "service" if you go on Sunday morning? That's my kind of church! I mean, gym. Sounds like you found a winner.

And, um, I can't believe how big those lobsters are. They are freaking me out all the way in Co.

Amy said...

LOL to Kristen's backside comment. He is TOTALLY taking a picture of your butts!!!!

Chloe said...

Ha! I was hoping someone would bring up that creepy guy!! He is in almost all of our freaking pictures!!

Bill said...

A free gym...Praise the Lord! The old guy taking the picture: way out of line. And that lobster is the biggest I've seen. Is that some camera trick or was it as big as it looks?

Judi said...

we have one here too. it's in the ghetto tho.

Kim said...

Wow! Lobster fest is awesome - where do I sign up! I don't know that I'll be catching many but boy do I do well with the eating. My aunt lives in Datona beach and she goes the whole way down to the FL keys to catch them for like a week. Are you coming to watch the world champs at all in Clearwater?? If so, let me know - we'll say hi!! A free gym.. leave it to God.. that is amazing. I would love it (I didn't hear you mention pool though..maybe he doesn't like to swim that much because he's busy walking on water.)

Jamie said...

Those lobsters are crazy looking! Way different than the ones we have up north.

Oh, and did you notice the guy taking the camera phone picture in the background. Err... I don't think he is taking a picture of the lobster. Haha.