Let's start the week off with a Tuesday trip to the Washington Park Beach in Michigan City. A group of friends and their children have decided to make this an annual tradition. We had a wonderful time although the water was chilly enough I didn't even get close to it. The sun was shining all day long and the temperature was below 80. PERFECT for me, but a little cold for some of the others with us. We got to catch up with each other, throw around the football, and play in the sand with the kids. I'm already looking forward to next year. If you get a chance to visit you definitely should. Also, if you are a gambler, there is a casino super close. I haven't visited the casino yet, but maybe we will one day.
After a long day trip to and from Michigan City one would expect that we sat around the house the next day, but that didn't happen either. My brother, a high school band director, took a new job over the summer at a larger school in Evansville. His first major duty in his position was to hold a DCI (Drum Corps International) competition at his school. I decided that we needed to head down and support him with the competition by being wonderful spectators. So, after lunch on Wednesday we headed down to Evansville, watched the competition, and promptly headed home as soon as the last corps finished performing. A nice 4 hours down, 4 hours viewing the competition, and 4 hours back home. Congratulations to my younger brother on a job well done! 
The trip down consisted of us working hard to avoid traffic with the help of Goolge Maps in an effort to make a 3:30 tee time at the new Fuzzy Zoeller course that we got a great deal on through the Golf Now app. Well, we made our tee time with plenty of time to spare. The staff brought our carts to us, we loaded up and got started on our marathon golf weekend. The course was beautiful and was surrounded by houses I will only dream of having. I also was only dreaming of having a good golf game. I scored quite high, but I still enjoyed myself. We headed back to the hotel, had some dinner, and hung out for the evening. The remainder of the evening consisted of pretty decent rain so we headed to bed not knowing what course we would be playing the next day.
After waking up in the morning and checking the Golf Now app we decided to splurge for a single course instead of playing two for the day considering the forecast for the afternoon. Today's course was Heritage Hills, considered the nicest public course in Kentucky. We arrived and immediately noticed why they placed the word hills in the name. Again the course was beautiful. I played a terrible front 9 due to blisters on my right hand from the day before. After buying a right handed glove at the turn, I played considerably better on the back 9. Thank God for that! The real fun started on hole 11 when we could see the dark clouds forming in the distance. We watched them roll in for the next 6 holes with a little thunder in the distance. Standing on the tee box for 17 we could literally hear the rain coming down in the wooded areas a few miles off. We played the quickest hole of golf I can recently remember. As we teed off on 18 the wind was picking up and sky was getting much darker. I hit two shots, one of which ended up in the water hazard, packed up my things and took what I considered to be a quite accurate 7 for the hole. I headed back to the car to start getting out everyone's shoes and emptying the cart to turn in. As the rest of the crew arrived, we got the car packed, hopped in as the first rain drops fell on the windshield, and then proceeded to watch as the skies let loose with their fury. The other golfers frantically driving their carts back to the clubhouse were literally being blown around on the path as the rain hit them completely sideways. It was intense there for a few minutes. Good thing we only planned one course for the day. As for the round, it was to be played cart path only and I am glad I had my FitBit on. According to its measurements, I walked roughly 11,500 steps during the rounds and climbed an astounding 41 flights of stairs (that's a lot of hills).
Now, as I did quite a bit of traveling this week, my eating was not the best. I spent a lot of time buying food on the road. However, I tried not to overeat and drank tea or water as often as possible. The rounds of golf helped considerably in my calorie count as on Thursday and Friday I burned a whopping 5,000 calories per day. After coming home and relaxing Saturday night I weighed in on Sunday morning to a 273.7 on the scale. I managed to lose 1.5 lbs. while spending 18 hours traveling in a car throughout the week. I was a little surprised not to see a gain on the scale, but I am more than pleased with what I saw. I am going to have to rededicate myself this week and remove the fast food from my frequent vocabulary. Thanks again for reading and don't forget to subscribe above.
Until next week... Food. Feet. Water. Repeat.
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