busy busy weekend / yoga # 52
Friday night, F's sister Meg and her boyfriend Nick were in town to visit. We went all over downtown--F parked in the lot underneath Love Park (which I didn't even know existed), and we walked all the way up to the Art Museum, did the steps, walked back down, tried to eat dinner at a few different restaurants that F had researched but everyone else apparently had the same idea, so instead we ate at Fado, an Irish bar, which was totally fine and tasty. Then we walked down to 13th to go to Apothecary, a bar F had found online, which had really creative and interesting cocktails. Meg is a bartender, so she particularly likes creative and interesting cocktails. Then Meg and I got gelato from Capogiro, which is the best ever. I had the vietnamese cinnamon and the dark chocolate, and it was awesome. Then we walked back to the car, but by the time we got there Nick wanted another drink and Meg and I really needed to use a bathroom, so we stopped in at Tir Na Nog briefly, then got the car and headed home. It was a good night, but a lot of walking, especially when I'd just had dance class the night before. My legs and feet hurt a lot by the end of the night. Google pedometer tells me we walked around 4.5 miles.
Saturday F and I made scrambled eggs and homefries for breakfast. We walked around campus for a couple of hours, then F's parents arrived like a whirlwind and suddenly our apartment was full of chairs, baskets, and huge potted plants. We all got dressed and went to F's cousin's wedding, which was lovely. After the reception we stopped to get eggs and milk for Sunday's breakfast, and we also got a pizza, and ate it while having a few more drinks and watching CSI. Bed around 1 AM.
Sunday, Meg wasn't feeling so hot. I made us banana pancakes for breakfast, and next time I have to remember that I can put the bananas directly in the blender with the pancake batter! This time I just dropped banana slices onto the cooking pancake on the griddle, which worked fine and was tasty, but blending the bananas right into the batter might be much more effective. Need to remember that for next time.
We took Meg and Nick to the airport and dropped them off at 2:00, then drove over to my old stomping grounds, Chestnut Hill, to meet Molly and her friends Adrienne and Fred for drinks and appetizers at Solaris and eventually dinner at Earth and Bread, one of our very favorite restaurants. Molly was just in town for the night, but Adrienne and Fred live in Mt. Airy, and we liked them a lot and hope we can hang out with them again sometime soon.
We got home at 7:30ish and were pretty much zonked, but we managed to clean up a bit from the family explosion weekend and then watch an episode of Firefly. Only one more episode to go to finish the series.
I did not do any yoga in the hecticness of this weekend, but Friday was a double workout day (with yoga in the morning and all that walking at night), and Saturday we did take that nice walk on campus, so I don't feel like I slacked. I do, however, need to climb right back on the workout horse, because I ate decidedly non-healthy things all weekend long and also drank a lot, way more than usual.
This morning I got up early enough to do 30-35 minutes of yoga, which was a very good thing. Not enough time for all the yoga I wanted to do, though. Tomorrow will be a jogwalking morning, and then Wednesday I think I might try to get up extra early and do a full hour of yoga. We'll see if that happens.
Saturday F and I made scrambled eggs and homefries for breakfast. We walked around campus for a couple of hours, then F's parents arrived like a whirlwind and suddenly our apartment was full of chairs, baskets, and huge potted plants. We all got dressed and went to F's cousin's wedding, which was lovely. After the reception we stopped to get eggs and milk for Sunday's breakfast, and we also got a pizza, and ate it while having a few more drinks and watching CSI. Bed around 1 AM.
Sunday, Meg wasn't feeling so hot. I made us banana pancakes for breakfast, and next time I have to remember that I can put the bananas directly in the blender with the pancake batter! This time I just dropped banana slices onto the cooking pancake on the griddle, which worked fine and was tasty, but blending the bananas right into the batter might be much more effective. Need to remember that for next time.
We took Meg and Nick to the airport and dropped them off at 2:00, then drove over to my old stomping grounds, Chestnut Hill, to meet Molly and her friends Adrienne and Fred for drinks and appetizers at Solaris and eventually dinner at Earth and Bread, one of our very favorite restaurants. Molly was just in town for the night, but Adrienne and Fred live in Mt. Airy, and we liked them a lot and hope we can hang out with them again sometime soon.
We got home at 7:30ish and were pretty much zonked, but we managed to clean up a bit from the family explosion weekend and then watch an episode of Firefly. Only one more episode to go to finish the series.
I did not do any yoga in the hecticness of this weekend, but Friday was a double workout day (with yoga in the morning and all that walking at night), and Saturday we did take that nice walk on campus, so I don't feel like I slacked. I do, however, need to climb right back on the workout horse, because I ate decidedly non-healthy things all weekend long and also drank a lot, way more than usual.
This morning I got up early enough to do 30-35 minutes of yoga, which was a very good thing. Not enough time for all the yoga I wanted to do, though. Tomorrow will be a jogwalking morning, and then Wednesday I think I might try to get up extra early and do a full hour of yoga. We'll see if that happens.