I had a good weekend that I would label as moderately productive. Friday after work the whole family headed to my son's summer camp orientation. It was actually quick and painless, but the kids were starving by the time we got back in the car. We had a gift certificate for a local restaurant, care of Mom for our anniversary, so we headed over there and met up with some friends. In lieu of going all out, my friend Jenn and I split a delicious salad with fresh fruit, veal scallopini and one of my favorite desserts, a warm crepe filled with Nutella, bananas and strawberries. Even though I am part Italian, I was only introduced to Nutella a few years ago. And thank goodness for that... I would have had a major childhood addiction to this stuff had I known it existed.
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| My dinner "Share-r" |
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| Little Mama loves bread |
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| This WAS my nutella crepe. |
Saturday, morning was the
NYRR Mini 10K. I left the house at 6:15 a.m. and managed to get out of the train station, which was thankfully also the starting line, just after the race started. I met up with my friend, Nurys and we started running. I had no goals for a PR and just wanted a respectable (by my standards) time. I definitely could have had a better time if I was there earlier and started a bit further up. You really do use a lot of energy getting around walkers, etc. That said, we kicked it into gear for the last mile (thanks to a fast Radiohead song on my friend's headphones). I'll take 1:00:17.
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| Post Run |
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| Nurys and I waiting for the bloggers (in the wrong spot... oops) |
Afterwards we met up with a few bloggers including
Theodora,
Leticia,
Stephanie,
Meggie,
Celia and
Christine (still trying to collect everyone else's blog links) for brunch at
Whym. Good food, great company.
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| Egg white omlette and a Fellini (Pear Bellini) |
After I scooped up the kids and got all cleaned up, we had some lunch and then we went to the park and beach and played for most of the day. I love living near the beach!
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| Chicken Meatballs and a Sweet Potato... |
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| ... which I shared |
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| At the park |
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| And then the beach |
Sunday, I had a kettlebell workout with my team in the morning followed by church/rehearsal for my nephew's baptism. Then the day was ours. The kids and I decided it was a pool day.
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| The boy's handstand |
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| Phoebe chillaxin in the shade |
All in all, a successful weekend!
How was yours?
So bummed I didn't get to see you on Saturday and that I missed brunch!! You ran a great race =)
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you had a fantastic weekend with your family!