Last night I spent a couple of hours comforting two sobbing children. Why? About a month ago I entered a contest for an all inclusive stay at Delawana Inn on the May long weekend. Two weeks ago I got the most amazing email telling me our family won. The boys crying? That was because we were now back at home. I so get it.
We’ve been going to Delawana for four years now and it’s my happy place. The first year we went I brought running shoes and forced Hockey Playing Husband to jog around the resort with me. I climbed the rock wall, walked the Burma Bridge, went to the gym, kayaked, pedal boated and pretty much everything I could do, I did.
Since then my activity level has dropped each year until last year when I said screw it and decided to treat my vacation like one big hedonistic adventure that involved me being horizontal as much as possible. The only activity I participated in for the entire ten days I was there was water aerobics in the pool each morning which wasn’t so much me doing water aerobics as it was me waving my arms around and talking to other people while floating. It was water floatobics.
This past weekend, the moment I arrived at Delawana I could feel the tension leave my shoulders. I went into relax mode almost immediately. I was, in fact, so relaxed, I didn’t even read. Holding the book and moving my eyes was just too. much. effort. Instead, I just laid.
By the pool.
Doing nothing.
So there are no fitness updates today. Nothing inspirational to get you up and moving. Just me spending the weekend being sloth.
It was awesome.
p.s. I may have suggested to the people at Delawana that they put in movators throughout the resort so we don’t have to walk to get to things like “the pool” and “the food.”
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I think you deserve to be a sloth once in a while. You kick butt in the exercise/work department. So, yeah, be a sloth! Oh how I wish we had places like that here.
This is on my family vacation wish list and now it came up again, today on Twitter, it just jumped to the top!
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Can we not do a conference there ladies? I’m in – as a matter of fact, I’ll help organize it – anything to enter ‘Slothdom’ for even a few days would be heavenly!!!
Conference + Delawana Inn — hmmmmmm
This is our fourth year going and I absolutely love it. Our kids have a blast, hubby and I get to relax….I can’t wait to go back.
OMG..I went there with the 2 wee kids for the first time last summer…as a fluke because my husband had a job up in the area…only for 2 days but AMAZING days…we loved it so much that we booked it for the Entire family for a week at the end of the Summer…AND I CAN”T WAIT…Sloth Deeva Here I Come!!
Dee, you’re going to love it. There’s something so ‘old school’ about it with the beach parties and bingo and dancing. It’s like going back to a simpler time yet with alcohol still available when needed.
That is why we booked it…when we were there I felt like it was all Dirty Dancing like…Can’t Wait!!
I spend my whole life trying to stop my inner sloth from breaking loose and taking over. At my core, I am a lazy shit. It’s only because I’m a Mom & I need to go to work so we can pay the mortgage & feed ourselves, that stops my inner sloth from pinning me to the couch. I’d much rather be eating or sleeping than exercising, truth be told. Just blogged about it too over at my blog. I’d share the URL but I’m too lazy to go find it and cut and paste ….
Lucky for me I’m not too lazy that I couldn’t follow the link
No, no, no…it’s not called “being a sloth.” It’s a “recovery week” (or weekend. Or month. Whatever you need/can get away with). Recovery is extremely important for us hard-working athletes, so it’s good to hear that you’re taking yours seriously
I am now making you my coach.
Heh, heh, heh…I may not be able to figure out what workouts to tell you to do, but I’d be great at telling you to rest!
Yay for slothdom! We all go go go so hard, spending a weekend horizontal is practically a health exercise. They should make it a food group too….
Yes, I agree! You and I are going to change the world, Pam.
Bahahahahahaha! You warned me about the sloth picture, yet it still floored me! Love it! FYI — you were a sloth for one weekend. I’ve been a sloth for 18 months.
My children cry for everything, they cry for happy things and sad things. I have criers. I’m happy you had a wonderful time, there is nothing better than time off, away from everything to re-energize yourself.
I’m a crier too but I think my kids were just overtired
HA! Love it. Slothy summer weekends are spectacular! We rented a cottage a few times before I had kids up in Honey Harbour and loved it so much! We’ll have to try Delawana with the kiddies.
Honey Harbour is great, isn’t it? I love that it’s not too far. And let me know if you do try Delawana – maybe we’ll be up there at the same time
I like having slothful vacations. If I can hang out in the sunshine and sip umbrella drinks, why would I not choose that option? WHY? I get enough activity in my regular life.
It’s like we’re sisters separated at birth
That’s one good lookin’ sloth. Something about the eyes…it’s like they’re looking right at me, beckoning me to come join her sloth-like ways:)
That sloth can be very convincing
There’s no better activity than slothing.
I’m pretty happy horizontal.
Aww … you know the kids have had an amazing time when they never want to leave! It’s hard to blame them!
It was a spectacular weekend. We all truly love it there for so many different reasons.
Sounds perfect to me. There isn’t enough slothfulness on our lives.
I know! It’s like being a sloth is a bad thing, or something.
Please take me with you next time… please…
You know I would in a heartbeat.
Love it! My weekend wasn’t totally sloth, but I relished the actual working outside that didn’t involve my ass parked in front of a computer!
It’s nice though, isn’t it? I actually did go kayaking and love how my arms feel afterwards.
LOL Sloth is goooooood.
So goooooodddd.