Thread: Lapland diary

WOW !!!!! again, double WOW !!!!!

You have both dome amazingly well with your weight losses,you will be climbing Everest next !!!!

Wow it looks amazing and like you say being able to do things like that is worth all the hard work to lose the weight! It looks fantastic x

Husky sledding is so hard work! Exhausted. But so worth it We did a 17km route, OH did about 10km of driving while I was the passenger, then we stopped for drinks and biscuits. I did 6.9km back, before landing us head first into a serious snow drift less than 2 minutes away from being back in the hotel. The dogs ran home with the sled and left us behind. Shameful!

Originally Posted by jezzi999

Husky sledding is so hard work! Exhausted. But so worth it We did a 17km route, OH did about 10km of driving while I was the passenger, then we stopped for drinks and biscuits. I did 6.9km back, before landing us head first into a serious snow drift less than 2 minutes away from being back in the hotel. The dogs ran home with the sled and left us behind. Shameful!

Sounds amazing!!!

Is it true the dogs aren't friendly? So you can't let them or anything? xx

Originally Posted by Mrs.S.

Sounds amazing!!!

Is it true the dogs aren't friendly? So you can't let them or anything? xx

Oh no we did lots of petting they are very hyper just before the run, but by the time you get back they are knackered! So it's best to pet them after!

Our hotel has its own husky kennels as it does a lot of multi-day husky trips where you sleep out in wilderness cabins (we just did a 3 hour stint) so it has 430 dogs! And they said all of their dogs are very friendly and none are aggressive. Some like petting more than others, while some are just shy.

Amazingly 6 average sized huskys pulled our sled without too much trouble (and our combined weight would have been about 36st!)

They are "domesticated" in that they are very well trained and know their routes inside and out, and follow commands, but they are very much wild at heart and pack animals. They are domesticated but not tame if you get what I mean. They prefer the company of dogs to people. But they love to work they get so excited when they are being harnessed up - like a pet dog when it knows it's about to go out for a walk!

It all sounds so amazing, glad your having a great time

Also you've both done amazing weight wise, its great that you can now reap the rewards by enjoying holidays like this

Aww Jezzi this trip sounds so amazing, had tears in my eyes reading some as it sounds out of this world! Just found this that so read from beginning to end and I'm also so glad you found his glasses, bless him keeping quiet when he must have been a bit unsure and scared! I have very, very bad eyesight and can't even get to the toilet in the night without my glasses so can empathise.
You both should be so proud of how far you've come and I know you will continue to get closer to where you want to be.
Enjoy the rest of your holiday xxx

Originally Posted by ScarlettStar86

Aww Jezzi this trip sounds so amazing, had tears in my eyes reading some as it sounds out of this world! Just found this that so read from beginning to end and I'm also so glad you found his glasses, bless him keeping quiet when he must have been a bit unsure and scared! I have very, very bad eyesight and can't even get to the toilet in the night without my glasses so can empathise.
You both should be so proud of how far you've come and I know you will continue to get closer to where you want to be.
Enjoy the rest of your holiday xxx

Aww thank you. So sweet

We went snowshoeing tonight - well tried to! We were driven 25mins to a national park next to another hotel, kitted up and our guide took us into the forest, with another couple - a super fit pair of Swiss cross country hikers! We were due to snowshoe through the frozen forests for 3 hours...

Well we lasted 10 minutes. The snow was waist deep, and instead of gently gliding across it like sprites, we sank to our waists and flailed around and fell over (fell both forwards, and also backwards for variety).

We quickly decided that we both hated snowshoeing with a passion, and were WAY too unfit to keep up with the Smiley Swiss. So we made our excuses to the guide, and sodded back to the hotel while it was still in view.

In the hotel bar an English couple were sat alone and dying for some more English people to chat too. They kindly bought us a drink (as we hadn't brought any cash over with us) and we chatted for the whole 3 hours. They were over here to get married in an Ice chapel/igloo! How exciting!

Finally we sent them off to bed as they were shattered (and they kindly offered to put us up on their chalet floor if we needed to sleep but we declined).

At 11:30 the hotel bar closed so we moved out to sit on the veranda, luckily still in our snow gear. At midnight out guide returned looking exhausted. The Smiley Swiss had dragged him 20km+ on the hike! Thank god we escaped that. I would have been laying in the snow crying after 1km.

Back in the hotel now after a nice drive back. 12:40, time for a hot shower then bed

(food for the day:

Breakfast: oatmeal, berries, plain yogurt, granary roll, Swiss cheese, boiled egg, apple juice, 2 cinnamon Pagen Krisprolls (thank god they don't sell these in the uk they are amazing!)

Lunch: 2/3 of a pizza topped with salmon and reindeer. Yummy but far too big to eat

Dinner:
sweet potato soup, mixed salad, cold seafood rice, 2 small slices rye bread
Pesto topped chicken breast in bacon sauce, veg, 1/2 potato rosti
Slice of apple pie, dash of cream, chcolate ganache

Drinks: lots and lots of water, 1 full-fat Coke

Plan for tomorrow - smaller lunch, try and eat some fruit. )

Jezzi I think your doing amazingly well sticking as best you can to plan and still getting your fruit etc in x

Originally Posted by Texty_F

Jezzi I think your doing amazingly well sticking as best you can to plan and still getting your fruit etc in x

I just don't want to come back to a huge gain

I'm sure all the extra exercise your doing will combat any large gain sounds like you need loads of extra energy just so your bod can keep warmish

We have had a mega lazy day today.

Didn't finally go to bed til about 2am last night, so we got up and had breakfast at 8am, then went back to bed until 11:30. At about 12:30 we then went to lunch! So done nothing but eat and sleep!

Off out shortly, about 30 mins walk away is the bridge over to Sweden, so we are going to walk down there and get some pics of us crossing the border. Glad we didn't know snowshoe in the end as we are both really tired and achy today.

Only activity booked today is a minibus trip at 9pm which will attempt to take us out and find some northern lights but it's been so cloudy this week we aren't holding our breath!

Breakfast: apple juice, oatmeal, berries, plain yogurt, 3 slices cheese, boiled egg, hot chocolate, 1 cinnamon Krisproll, big slice of watermelon.

Lunch: went for a buffet lunch today to try and eat some more Superfree -

Salad,
poached fish (red skipper?), lobster sauce, potato gratin, broccoli with red onions and leeks
Tinned fruit salad

Water, roobidoos tea.





Snacks: options hot choc, 100g bar of choc (whoops)

Dinner: chilli prawn soup, salad, potato bread, red pepper pate
Pork, mustard sauce, potatoes, veg
Lemon mousse cake, baked apples

Late 1am snack: cup a soup

Jezzi I am SO happy you & hubs are enjoying yiurselves - snowshoeing notwithstanding that sounded likefartoo much hard work!

When You get back can you PM me the company you used? We were planning to save & go travelling but have just found out that my MIL & SIL want to do a family holiday next yea for 70th & 50 th birthday, plus our mates are getting married abroad as well. So probably gonna have to wait a whole now. Would love to do something similar to yours next jan x

Wow sounds like an amazing trip- always been one i've wanted to do! xx