OK, big announcement! Tomorrow it will be 1 week with no vaping! Me, Angel & Amanda decided when we were at the beach that we will stop vaping last Monday. Pinkie promises and all. Damn, didn’t realize how addicted to my vape I was. I pretty much had a relationship with it and now we’re broken up! I keep looking for it forgetting that I don’t use it. It’s been HARD! Need to mention that we’ve been allowed to smoke regular cigarettes though. Not much better, but I think vaping causes more damage and they still don’t have longterm user data on vaping. Goal is to not smoke at all, but happy if I can have a permanent breakup with vaping!
I think I reached some kind of pickleball all-time high this week. Everyone wanted to play, had a lesson, and our league play too. Tried 2 new indoor courts too. The Courts is super modern and has video recaps of your play and buttons you press to keep track of your scores and who’s serving.
Unfortunately I think all that pickleball and me tampering down on Prednisone, led to some serious pain in my left leg. I’ve now gone back to taking Prednisone daily and it’s feeling better. Also been doing a lot of cold plunge, red light sauna, cryo and LED bed so fingers crossed because I want to keep playing 🙂
While on the health topic, I also had visit to the gynecologist for a pap smear (a check to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix ). Have to make sure the ‘equipment’ stays healthy hahahaaa… Don’t forget to do this or check your balls too! They will also send me referrals for colonoscopy and mammogram. Remember, if you got your health, you can deal with everything else, so take care of it!
Then there was work… I love my shirt Hot Summer & Mamacita!
Took some walks too. I need to calm my mind down sometimes. Or monkey around in trees…
Popped by Downtown. I love it there. Coffee at Iwana first. And last. Bought one to go when I left too. Some thrifting and tried empanadas at Makers & Finders. Had a guava one as a dessert and I could’ve easily downed 5 of them. Have to practice that self control ugh!
Hunter and I started with coffee & food in bed today. I’m also considering packing up my Xmas tree today. But not 100% committed to it, so we’ll see 🙂
Found this when looking for cool spots. Pussy Lake in Canada, who wants to go LOL?
Talked to Amanda this morning and we might pop by Portland in the first week of June 🙂 Planning… Also need to book my tickets to Sweden this summer. Next week is pretty open so let’s see what happens 🙂 Got plans for Memorial Day? I might crash Angel’s pool 🙂
All the best and don’t forget to have your pu$$ies & nut$ checked!
Didn’t really know a lot about Whitefish, but the pics online of the place looked inviting, so thought a birthday trip there would be an excellent idea! And it was!
I think I mentioned before that have slight fear of bears! I have watched and read plenty of educational material on how to act if you encounter a bear. Unfortunately I think all my rationality would blow out of my brain and I’d either freeze or run LOL…
Didn’t help that the first thing I see at the Kalispell airport is bear spray for rent!
The airport is small and it’s the nicest airport I’ve been to. The rental car desk was downstairs and the lot with the car was a 3 min walk away. Very convenient not having to take some shuttle bus to a place to pick it up after flying…
Checked in to the Airbnb right in the city and went eating and checking the town out. It’s small, but pretty. Plenty of places to choose from when it comes to eating. Decided on this food truck park called Thirty Eight with live music. Crab bowl with no lame imitation crab and tacos. Couldn’t decide and was fomo-ing. Then ice-cream for dessert at Sweet Peaks, but it was more icy than creamy 🙁
Went to a store to pick up some stuff for the hike the following day. Had to pick some new flavors of Maeve chocolate I’d never tried. If you see this chocolate, buy and try it. It’s the best! They even had Swedish ginger bread cookies!!!
I had booked a group hike with Glacier Guides Montana Raft since I was too freaked out by the idea of hiking alone in bear woods! Meet up time was at 7am and since I need coffee first thing in the morning, I bought this strong ass instant coffee the night before at the store! 300mg of caffeine should do the trick, right? And apparently formulated for NASA in 2018, so I thought it would be good enough for me too LOL!
It was dark and lonely on the streets when I left at 6.20AM…
I met at their office with the group. Got our lunchpacks and jumped in their van for a 2h drive to the Glacier Park. The start was from a hotel, which I don’t remember the name of, but they had beautiful mountain and lake views. We had a short talk about bears with both guides carrying bear spray. Basically they said a bears thoughts were not “look, a human, let me eat it”… And they had never needed to use their bear sprays. OK, felt pretty relaxed after hearing that!
The hike was about 15km in total there and back from the glacier. The nature was impressive!
We finally reached the glacier with super clear water. Surprisingly you were allowed to swim in it. Pretty hot after the hike I took a quick dip. Needed to show the rest of the group what we Finn’s are made of! Cold, but so refreshing! After lunch in the sun and drying up.
This was an awesome hike! My joints were hurting pretty bad after, but so worth it! Outdoors gives you an appetite and dinner was at this cute little restaurant called Piggyback Barbecue. Probably some of the best ribs I’ve ever had!
Since it was my birthday weekend, I couldn’t drive by Clydesdale Creamery without having this sugar bomb! WOW, it was almost too much. But only almost! They also have a Clydesdale (giant horse breed) farm that you can visit and stay at. If I had more time I would’ve gone there too…
Soaked in the hot tub which was under a giant tree in the back yard of my Airbnb after, and it was a perfect ending to the day!
Saturday was my birthday! Happy birthday to me 🙂 Started by getting coffee at Folklore and enjoying it in front of the fireplace…
Dressed to impress!
More coffee in town and some shopping. I’m good at treating myself 🙂 Spotted these cute doggos on the town too…
Then went to the City beach. I’m like a kid when it comes to water. Had to get in and do another quick dip 🙂
Dinner was at the Whitefish Lake Golf Club at their restaurant. The smoked trout for starter went down faster than I could take a picture of it. The steak was great even though the presentation could’ve used some creativity 🙂 They gave me an ice-cream dessert with a sparkler 🙂
Since it was still light out I checked out the neighboring downtown of Columbia Falls. Not much there and definitely happy I chose to stay in Whitefish instead. Beautiful sunset by the river and thankfully no bears 🙂
Finished in the hottub again and it was definitely the highlight of my Airbnb with the fireplace and heated floors 🙂
My flight wasn’t until the afternoon on Sunday so started with caffeine at Folklore. Great coffee spot!
Then a short hike at Swift Creek Loop Trail. But first – Rent bear Spray! Convenient station where you could rent bear spray per day.
I think I can admit it was probably not the most enjoyable hike in my life. I was just on a constant lookout for bears hahahaa… Luckily there were people on the trail, so I hoped the bears would go for quantity! Needles to say, no bears. But so many other animals. Big woodpecker, what I think was a chipmunk, some hairy larva and only had time to catch a pic of the snakes tail. Snakes don’t bother me at all!
Stopped for a coffee on the way back to town at Crema which was excellent and just next to the parking lot this deer was grazing 🙂
Hungry again and went back to Thirty Eight because they had a BBQ truck from Texas there on Sundays. Baked potato with brisket and some huge rib, both smoked to perfection!
Could’ve easily spent a couple more days here. Can really recommend Whitefish if you enjoy nature, hikes, skiing in the winter and perfect little cute town with everything you need! And bears….
Still good to come back and hug Hunter. Angel’s friend looked after him and from the pictures she sent me, he lived like a king while I was gone 🙂 Only the best for Hunter!
What I planned to look like for my birthday… But that didn’t happen! Maybe next year when I turn 50 🙂
Lots of other stuff to tell you about, but it will have to wait until Sunday 🙂
Not sure if there are any hockey fans here? Right now the Junior Hockey Championships are happening. The final game is between Russia and Canada tonight. Finland played Russia yesterday and lost. The good thing in that is that they got to play Sweden today. Sweet rivalry between these two. I named myself Puma Swede even though I have Finnish ancestry. Puma Finn doesn’t sound as catchy! And in Swedish ‘finne’ also means a zit. Very sexy – NOT! Anyways… When it comes to sports, especially hockey, my family and I are diehard Finland supporters! If Finland wins and they play the national anthem, my mom opens her balcony door outside of Stockholm and blasts it out for all of her neighbors to hear hahahaaaa… Well, today Sweden %*@!~ took the bronze and Finland ended 4th. Perkele!
I love the fact that in Puerto Rico you can go and swim even if it’s winter. The water is warmer than it is in Sweden, even during summer. Took my new bikini from Malibu Strings and made Andrew take some pics. Sometimes he thinks he can just lie down and read, well, too bad! There are pics to be taken first!
While in the mood I took care of a couple of custom videos too… Tried my best to look innocent as was requested!
Now having coffee in one of the only good coffee shops open here on Sunday. Tomorrow we been invited to celebrate the Three Kings Day holiday at a friends house. Look forward to it 🙂
