Yesterday we spent the day roaming around Olbrich Garden in Madison. Obrich is sort of a little botanical oasis in the big city with a multitude of large display gardens and even an indoor Jungle! The photos are from a Tai Pavilion, called a “sala”. It was crafted in Thailand then shipped to Madison and reassembled. You’d think you were actually in Thailand if not for the trees!

Having a 7 year old along on such excursions demands a bit of compromise. An adult can stroll ornate gardens all day and lose themselves in the atmosphere. A 7 year old has to adapt the gardens to their imagination like levels in a video game, and top it off with a trip to McDonald’s. The mistake there is that my mind says, “Fine I’ll have a whopper”, but my body has long since been without that sort of food. The total rejection called for an evening dose of Alka-Seltzer and lots of water.

Recently on Wellsphere.com which I’ve mentioned is an online community aimed at the more health conscious among us, they had an interesting discussion on ways to eat well when dining out. Of course I couldn’t very well comment since “dining out” is something I rarely do. When I do I usually feel ill afterwards. The brain always thinks “Gee, I never have. . . . so just this once” . . . and usually I pay for it.

If you are one to eat out regularly, you may find Wellsphere’s new Wellternatives feature useful. Wellternatives offers you a spot where you can just enter any restaurant and pull up their nutritional information. What I think would work for me personally is the text version that works on a cellphone. You can actually be in the a parking lot and text “diet” + restaurant name + menu, and get that info right off. Of course it can’t save you from yourself. I should have known better than to eat a McDonald’s burger! However, if you have better will power than I obviously demonstrated the Wellphone feature is a pretty good idea.

More Photos from Olbrich Garden

yesterday was mother’s day after all. . .

Don’t be Koi, be gold fish. .

Little indoor waterfall

Spinach Kaleidoscope

sun obscured by clouds and water

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