Day Twenty Two January 23, 2014

Today is day 22 of 'My Big Fat Juice Cleanse'.  Okay...I'm invited to Guelph by my sisters and mother for a dual birthday celebration for Mom and Me.  Well...I'm only drinking juice...one of my sisters is only drinking juice...where the hell do you go for 'dinner' in this situation?  Never mind the 'celebration' aspect of the whole thing.  Older sister to the rescue..."let's go to Rawlicious"...a raw food and juice restaurant.

It is a million degrees below zero in Guelph tonight...lets go out to drink cold juice and eat raw food.  What a great idea!  As we circle the block in downtown Guelph for the third time, someone asks, "where is this place?"  Older sister is sure she can find it...it can't be far...it's somewhere here.  We park the car and begin the longest walk of my life.  Picture it...freezing cold out...dressed for dinner (that I don't get to eat)...and we don't know where the restaurant is.

When we finally find it...it's cold inside.  Lovely...but cold.  We get our menus and start to try and figure out what everything is, (no Mamey Sapote).  There is a wide selection of interesting items...all raw.  The wine...I mean, juice list is quite extensive.  We all make our selections and settle in.  Everyone in this restaurant is skinny and healthy...except some (us).  I'm not sure if they are thin from the way they eat, or if they burn calories trying to stay warm while eating this way.  There is something very seasonal about a raw food diet...and that season should be summer.

The food was beautiful in presentation...two of us thought it was tasty...two of us just shut up and drank our juice.

We laughed, joked, felt the warmth of one another...a fabulous evening had by all...even if the food was cold :).