Hi folks! I can’t wait to read about all your weekends. Mine was filled with tons of activity, sunshine, furniture shopping and, of course food. Is anyone else blown away that it’s June? March, April and May flew by but I’m hoping that June will slow its roll so we can enjoy the nice weather that we all deserve so much.
As you saw yesterday, Zain and I started out the weekend by biking to the farmers market early Saturday morning. We didn’t buy anything but it was just nice to walk around and see the options for the future. Next time I’ll be sure to go around lunch time – there were tons of awesome food options! Tacos, fancy grilled cheese, crepes…I was pretty mad I had just eaten breakfast haha. I never like to miss out on food like that.
Breakfast before the market was peanut butter and bananas on a sandwich thin + coffee
Zain finally learned what it takes to date a blogger so he likes to take “spontaneous” pictures of our adventures.
I also noticed that everyone at the farmers market was in athletic gear. These are my people.
After the market I met up my friend Megan for a bootcamp class. It was the last class in my two week pass at Yoga Loft and I really can’t tell you how much I’m going to miss it. Once I have to stop paying all those beginning fees and additional costs of moving I’ll for sure get a 10-pass there to use over the span of a few weeks. That place kicked my butt and I loved every second of it.
The rest of the day was spent furniture shopping. Zain is all about the deals so we ended up biking + walking about five miles or so to a furniture outlet in the middle of nowhere. We felt like we were on a pilgrimage across the Sahara (it was 95 on Saturday) so when we saw 7-Eleven and were sure it wasn’t a mirage, we picked up some Slurpees.
Saturday night I hung out on Megan’s roof watching the sunset and drinking wine, so it was basically the perfect day.
Sunday was spent church-going, grocery shopping and Blackhawks-watching. The weekend was full and fabulous – but don’t think I’d leave you without showing you all the food I ate!
For some random reason I was all about the salads this weekend:
Mixed greens with hard boiled egg, tomato, blue cheese, avocado and balsamic vinaigrette.
Arugula with mozzarella and baby tomatoes (dressed with the oil that the mozzarella was soaking in plus TJ’s balsamic glaze)
But don’t think I just ate salads all weekend – that would just be nonsense.
Mahi mahi with herbes de provence and lemon, breadcrumb and herbes de provence-stuffed tomatoes and roasted brussel sprouts
Spinach-egg white breakfast wrap from Starbucks (plus it looks like the barista was cursing me out haha)
Veggie burger topped with cheddar, bbq sauce and onion straws
It was a blast of a weekend – I even started off Monday right with a 6:00am 4 mile run. Now that summer is here morning runs are going to be a lot more common. Everything is on the up and up!
Happy Monday!
Questions:
- What was the best thing you ate this weekend?
- What’s your favorite homemade salad combo? I need some new inspiration!
- Did you try anything new this weekend?
i had a big lunch 