Day 24-28: Christmas

On Christmas eve, we drove down to Shropshire to spend Christmas in a hotel for the first time in my life.  We checked in and I did Strength before we went to visit my gran.  In the evening, my sister arrived and we had a family chat over a few drinks.  I even convinced my mum to go on a wander with me through the little strip of woodland in the hotel grounds and we tripped over branches in the dark and our footsteps mulched into the soft muddy leaf litter.

Christmas day was family breakfast then my sister and I did HardCore and Yin together whilst my parents went to collect my gran.  My sister was pretty good at the HardCore and enjoyed the Yin once she stopped slagging off Travis and settled into it.  It was really nice to do it together.  Christmas was different from usual and the vegan lunch was less than inspiring, but we had a really lovely day together eating, chatting and opening presents.

On boxing day we had a lie in after a late night's chat the night before, had breakfast and packed up.  Then we sat for ages in the lounge and played games and talked before we had to part ways.  My sister drove back to Leeds and my parents drove me back to London with them.  I stayed a night in their flat before going home, so me and mum did Detox together that evening.

On the 27th, I did Vitality with my mum before I went home.  She has clearly been converted to the ways of yoga and Travis because she bought the dvd set yesterday!  She's almost 60 but it's never too late to start.  In some directions, she's more flexible than me too!

Today I did HardCore but skipped Mountain Pose and Pranayama.  Bad, I know, but it could have been worse at this time of year!  I have been cheating a bit with the food programme and had some chocolate and mince pies, etc. but again, could have been a lot worse!! 

Dave and I are going camping tomorrow for 3 nights... yoga in the tent should be interesting...