Up and at’em at 6:30 this morning, I got up to hit the huge hotel gym first thing.
(I made those people sign release waivers to be in the blog. Not.)
Look! I got to do a track work out this morning!
The fitness center I use in the winter is this small, decrepit hole of a gym. It’s very close to home and it meets my needs so I don’t really care, but when I get to use these state of the art treadmills it feels like such a treat!
It’s been a foodie day in photos to say the least.
My mom and I stopped about midway during our 2 1/2 hour drive for lunch at a Greek restaurant.
Quite possibly the best tasting Vegetable Souvlaki ever. I’m sure part of the reason it why was so delicious was due to the fact that I was positively starving by the time we sat down to eat!
We got to our hotel at about 3:00 – thrilled with our view of the city from our room!
Blog: And just where have you been, young lady?
Me: Um, err… I was out.
Blog: out? OUT!? Where exactly is OUT?
Me: Well, let me start at the beginning.
A long, long time ago, on a Sassy Saturday afternoon…
I ate a salad.
A salad filled with red leaf lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, sprouts, cucumbers and green peppers. It was a lovely salad indeed.
After lunch I packed my bags for an old fashioned, get out your dancing shoes, life before kids, girls night out and sleepover to boot.
The girls were with Aunt Ellen today and my mom happened to have the day off from work. We decided to take the opportunity to have a little mother-daughter day together. We headed out to eat at a small, local restaurant called Aladdins Natural Eatery in downtown Rochester. Their menu touts fine, fresh ingredients to make delicious, healthy meals. Well what do you know, I’m all a-tout that myself.
We decided to split the babaganoush for an appetizer.
Continuing with today’s fruit for breakfast theme, I polished off a bunch of a cantaloupe as I got us packed up and ready to the head to the museum today.
This was also about the same time that Ava learned the internet was down.
I can totally relate, kid.
So off we went to the Museum of Play.
We played.
And waited for butterflies to land on our shadows.
Have I mentioned that my legs have grown longer? I think it’s all the green juice.
Today the girls went with Ellen, giving Zak and I chance to remember what the other one’s voice sounded like without the typical screeching and classic interrupting. We talked about going out to eat, a movie, shopping… the afternoon was our child free oyster.
My bucket of watermelon held me over for a while, but without warning I realized how empty my stomach felt and I was going to go from hungry to starving in about .256 seconds if we didn’t get to a restaurant STAT.
To buy myself some time, I made a little banana mullet snack.
My first fruit snack of the day consisted of two kiwi with the fur on. Fruit fashion faux pas or not, I rolled with it (and quickly too lest anyone throw a bucket of red paint on it in protest).
Lunch was my (as of late) favorite open faced homemade guac sandwich. As I was cutting up carrot sticks for my side of crunch I remembered something I saw Sarah of LovinMyTummy fame do and broke out a the salsa.
(My carrots are hoping you’ll give peace a chance.)
Salsa and carrots? Brilliant.
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