Monday, February 15, 2010

OptiMYzing Experience

What a fun day! After a wonderful Team Myles run this morning (SLR.com updated with new post.) I met up with Ang, Jaime & Tash at Starbucks for a coffee & gab session. Was really nice to catch up with all the girls and see the Mommy-to-be! ;)

We headed over to OptiMYz Live at the WTCC to spend some time browsing various health, fitness and wellness displays.

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One of the benefits of Team Myles was free admission to the show. Sweet!

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We browsed around a bit and the lady at the Good Life/Nubody’s both was kind enough to snap a pic of us posing beside this gorgeous set of wheels.

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We hit up the Hamachi House booth for a yummy sample of their Miso Soup. Totally hit the spot in this chilly weather.

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We sipped on the soup while we waited for Lil MacPherson of the Wooden Monkey restaurant to begin her info session on eating local & organic.

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Her wonderful speech told of her experiences in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Change Conference and stressed the importance of buying local to support our farmers and the quality of foods they provide. She is obviously very passionate and well educated on this subject and her speech certainly reflected that.

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We also watched a short video clip from Hellman’s Eat Real Eat Local campaign. If you have a second, please take a moment to check it out. I think you’ll be shocked at the ratios of food export/import in our country.

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Had a bit of fun with the Queen’s tea…. ;)

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And I made sure to stop at the Blue Nose Marathon booth.

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Along with a visit to the Canadian Cancer Society’s.

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All tuckered out and ready for some lunch….one of the guys at the OptiMYz booth took this cute group shot:

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After visiting so many booths, I ended up with quite the information package!

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You’ll have to stay tuned to hear all the delicious deets of our lunch… until then I’ll leave you with this little hint -