My hubby has been on vacation from work these past two weeks – and they are quickly coming to an end! Yesterday we spent the morning on a boat with a muskie fisherman. Last time we went on this boat, we caught nothing. Yesterday we caught three muskie, two at the same time. One was almost 30 pounds and about 52 inches long. Big fish!

I’m not a fisherman, so I just watched while Randy (hubby) and Ryan (youngest son) reeled in these fish. It was interesting to watch, but the boat and I didn’t get along too well. Maybe it was the 90 degree weather, or perhaps it was the rockiness of the boat, but it was the first time that I’ve ever felt motion sickness. I now know what it feels like to lose your appetite!

The fisherman would have probably fished for hours, but due to my unsettled stomach and some pesky, biting flies, we came back after about three and a half hours on the boat. (A bottle of Pepsi managed to keep me semi-settled, but I was really glad to be back on solid ground!) We returned to find that one of our sons had gotten a job he’d been praying for! And then we took off for the theater to see “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

I like Johnny Depp in most of his movies, and he did a good job in this one as well. But in comparing the movie to the first one with Gene Wilder, I’d have to say there were things about Willy Wonka that I liked better in the first movie. Then again, there were things in this new version that I liked better than the old – the new Charlie for one. It would be nice if we could take the parts we like best and mix the too.

However, the one thing that I did come away with was a craving for chocolate! Now mind you, I love chocolate – dark chocolate in particular. Unlike Augustus Gloop who eats chocolate non-stop, however, I allow myself only one piece of Dove dark chocolate a day, usually after lunch. If it’s a small piece, like the Easter egg size, I eat it in one bite, but it’s a slow savory bite. :) I make it last on my tongue as long as possible. But I like the bigger Dove Promises better because I can break them in half and savor one half at a time.

Sometimes I will give in and eat two pieces in a day, but I’m usually pretty strick about it. The bathroom scale keeps me accountable every morning, and since weight has always been a struggle for me to keep under control, I obsess about anything that might tip the scales too far in the wrong direction. :) Chcolate could do that if I lived in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. LOL!

Thankfully, no one really rides on rivers of chocolate except in the movies. :)