When trevelling I don't usually want to do the 'tourist' routine! But in this case, for the sake of the kids, I did agree, partially, to do some of it at a distance.

Which was fine, even for me, and the weather was with us, so a breezy walk over the Thames was perfect!

We did go and see the musical, 'The Lion King' which was magic! So amazingly well done, and the music touches you deep inside.

A bit of shopping and a ride (or many) on the London busses...

On our way to London! My wonderful friend, Chantelle, is having a 40 yrs-bash - we will be there!

Had a swell one and half days in New York with my son. Lots of good low carb foods to be found, despite the 'appleish' name of the city!

Did do a Margarita, not quite the same as in Mexico though - hmmm.

Back home now anyway, and living on memories from the whole trip, many wondeful ones I must say! Already downloaded (read: bought) two of the 'shuffle' songs from dancing on the deck! Adding them to my Zumba classes!

I just have to share this one...

At the restaurant where we had dinner, in New York, a family came in and asked if I was the LCHF woman from Sweden! How's that? :)
(they were from Sweden themselves, but still...)!

Full moon, a singe seagull - peacefull!

But soon it's party time. A whole lote of low carb folks meeting up for a fun, get started, evening! Tom Noughton the comedian will be entertaining us and talking about all of us that are giving lectures on the cruise. Can't wait!

A fun evening ahead! :) Looking forward to it!

Today it's the simpler of breakfasts! We have some food left in our fridge so we might as well eat that...

Two boiled eggs, two cheese sticks and some coffee with (heavy) cream.

Good going here... Soon we will be checking out of our hotel, leaving the island and moving into the city, Houston. There we will be meeting the whole Low Carb group - can't wait!

I was pretty happy when I heard that breakfast was included in the room. But when we arrived in the breakfast room this morning, we could just turn around and leave. :(

There was nothing that was even close to low carb! 4 Waffle irons, litres of syrup, cereals, muffins, danish pastries, bagels, jam and fruit yoghurt!

My first thougth was syrap - sugar, sugar, sugar! A lot of it!

But the one syrup was: SUGARFREE (?)

And the other one was: REDUCED CALORIE SYRUP (?)

My opinion is rather to remove the syrups than trying to substitute them with an as bad alternativ!

Other eats on the buffé were:

At this stage we were pretty hungry actually. At La Guardia there was a food court of restaurants. Different restaurants all around, and tables in the middle. Donuts, prezles, pizzas and Chinese food. Chinese seemed the best option here!

I asked which meals were with no sugar, and the reply I got was none. All meals have sugar, it tastes better then, the waitress explained!

She did say there was a hamburger place farther along, so off we went in that direction! In search of a good low carb burger!

The service, I must say, is always good in the States! They want to serve, and to please the customer. Never a problem, everything is possible!

So my burger without bread and fries but with bacon, cheese and extra majonaise and toppings (mushrooms, lettuce, onion) was no problem at all!

It tasted soooo good and was really filling!

We landed at Newark airport, but needed to get to LaGuardia before proceeding to Houston.

Quite a hassle perhaps, but for Daniel and I we saw it as an opportunity to see some more, and to see more of New York!

To be in NY, if only for a couple of hours, was quite an experience. Just like being 'live' on a movie. So many things are familiar... The school busses, the NYPD cars, the yellow cabs, etc...

When we landed in New York there just happened to be a Starbuchs right outsidet the customs control. Lucky me! :)

I asked if they had cream for my coffee, and the waitress asked if I meant 'half & half', some kind of cream and low fat milk blend. I assured I would like real cram, pouring cream, whipping cream that is runny, heavy cream. I tried all explanations I could think of! Heavy cream worked!

The poor waitress was in shock, confusion! Did I really mean heavy cream? In my coffee? HEAVY cream? Are you sure? She kept shaking her head in disbelief! :) This was quite a laugh actually!

She even tried to tell me that I should rather have whipped cream, as then one needs less amount, and all that fat is just sooo bad for me! :)

A Swedish couple behind me in the line, asked if I ought LCHF! Quite funny... Anyway I got the heavy cream and my coffee was soooo good, especially after that long flight!

A very long trip! Including delayed flight... So in total I have been going for 30 hours! Don't think I would manage that (this well) if I was eating carbs!!!

But the trip went pretty well!

In flight breafast was a pityful episode! A paket of crisps, a chocolate biscuit/cookie and a tortillawrap with melted cheese and rice (?) filling. Urgh!

This is when my boiled eggs came in handy!

3 eggs and a small packet of nuts are packed in my handbag. Good to have once hunger sets in. Although nuts are not so good to have with, considering those on the flight with allergies!

Flight goes from Stocholm - New York, change of airports, then further to Houston!

Tonight my son and I are leaving for USA and the Low Carb Cruise. I have just started packing. USA is shoppers paradise, so how much should I pack and what will I shop when there!

I guess a few more things will be added to my case before we leave in a couple of hours!

Glad to say 'been there, done that' :)

Venice Beach was an experience, in several ways! The 'MovNat' workshop was awesome, with 30 people learning how to exercise by only using their bodies and the environment!

The people along the promenade were very interesting, quite entertaining actually! :)

I am not very fond of flying, but I can admit that I felt pretty much safer up in the air than in the taxi from LAX to my hotel!

He drove as if the car was stolen!

My trip home was beginning.  I had nothing prepared to eat.  I had to improvise to make my trip as LCHF friendly as possible!

It started at the airport.  I was not very hungry but thought that I better eat something that I can decide over and that will keep me full for many hours.

I found a restaurant that had real burgers! Perfect! Removed the strips and the bun, added cheese, butter and mayonnaise. *Happy and full*!

As I suspected the food on the flight was LCHF catastrophe! Rice, lots of rice and a few small chicken pieces.  Butter, yes! And I had with me a little extra butter from the restaurant.  The salad had a dressing with glutamate (E621/GMO)... And afterwards chocolate pudding - no thank you!

I had the chicken and butter! Worked fine.

For breakfast (which for my body and the time difference was middle of the night) they served some awful excuse for eggs and potatoes! No thanx!

At Frankfurt airport I bought 2 meaty sausages.  And on the flight to Stockholm they served a sweet cake/bun! *Cringe*!

On the train from Stockholm to Karlstad I had ordered freshly peeled shrimp sandwich! Ate the shrimps and the egg and left the bread! Very nice!

So, with some planning and good will - it worked out well! :)

It was a long journey home!  Packing went well, it all fitted in (Ok I admit I had an extra suitcase on trip home)! Bikini hang out to dry till the last minute...

My only dilemma was what to eat on the tirp home! ALWAYS I have had the possibility to prepare food to take with me on all my trips, and in 'worst case' I have sneaked a couple of eggs from the morning breakfast.  But not this time!

I was quite nervous about how it would be!

What do you think happened, how did it go?