hodie mihi, cras tibi: Kelly's Day of Eating

Kelly is a body builder who has been competing successfully in California competitions for two years. Here's what he looked like at the most recent competition (May, 2010).

Maintaining a physique like this requires a stringent diet and exercise regimen. For most of the year, he faithfully followed the prescribed diet which, for the weeks immediately prior to the competition, consisted only of white rice and boiled chicken.

This year, his birthday followed the competition by one week, and he vowed to reward his hard work with a "Day of Eating" on his birthday.

Kelly's "Day of Eating" began at one minute past midnight, when his wife, Angel, woke him to partake of Midnight Birthday Cake, a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins, covered in fudge chocolate and topped with nuts and maraschino cherries.

Kelly LOVES chocolate!

Birthday Breakfast was at Black Bear Diner where he had a "Bear's Choice" with 4 large slices of French toast, ham and eggs over easy with wheat toast, and coffee with vanillia cream and sugar--LOTS of cream and sugar!

The staff at Black Bear embarrassed Kelly a bit by singing the happy birthday song to him, but they gave him balloons and a molten hot chocolate cake covered with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge.

After Black Bear Diner's breakfast, Kelly and Angel headed to Fresno to the shooting range to burn off the calories. Afterward, Kelly wanted to stop at his favorite sushi place, Wasabi Do or Die, where he had an appetizer of salmon and tuna sashimi. For a main course, he ordered the tommy plate: salmon, tuna, and shrimp tempura stuffed rice rolls topped with a slice of salmon and tuna. He always orders a Sierra Mist to drink, and according to Angel, he drinks no fewer than 6 glasses of Sierra Mist at a sitting.

The staff spared Kelly the birthday song, but gave him a cup of green tea ice cream with a candle in it. After the great lunch they headed over to River Park, a plaza full of little places to shop (and eat).

On their way to murder some chocolate

in River Park

They went to Kelly's favorite chocolate shop, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, where he always gets 3 handmade giant orange sticks in milk chocolate, one mint chocolate cluster covered in fudge, and a cherry stick (4 maraschino cherries on a stick dipped in milk chocolate).

Yummy!

They decided to go to see Shrek in 3D at the River Park Imax theater. After buying their tickets, they had two hours to kill until show time, so they went to World Sports Cafe and had some delicious deep fried appetizers: cheese sticks and calamari.

The staff brought Kelly a glass full of hot fudge and vanillia ice cream topped with a cherry.

By this time Kelly was feeling...awww....a little full.

He recovered, though, and they headed over to the Imax theater to watch the movie...

...where Kelly got a large popcorn and large root beer. He also bought white cheddar topping to flavor his popcorn.

After the movie, they walked around for awhile, but Kelly started to get hungry again, so they headed north up the highway to Fashion Fair Mall where a lot of the bigger, well-known shops are located, as well as great dining, which led them to the Cheesecake Factory.

They were seated and served bread and butter, and Kelly had a Sierra Mist. For an appetizer, he ordered Buffalo Blasts: chicken breasts, cheese, and spicy buffalo sauce stuffed in a spiced wrapper, fried until crisp, and served with celery sticks and bleu cheese dressing. He also ordered crispy crumb-coated macaroni and cheese served over a creamy marinara sauce. For the main course, Kelly ordered the Five-Cheese Chicken Alfredo (with double chicken).