Last Weekend

Better late than never, eh? So, besides cleaning my carpet on Saturday, we went out with Julie and some other friends to celebrate her belated birthday. We started out at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood (yum-o) and afterwards headed down to the Landing to check out the Big Bang Piano Bar. Unfortunately, we missed the main attraction (one of the performers doing a Justin Timberlake montage), however, we did have a great time. It draws a pretty good crowd, so we were very lucky to get a table. They are known as the home of dueling pianos and they performed a lot of classics tunes, which was really fun to sing along to. I will add that it gets a little randy at times... Lots of bachelorette parties...

On Sunday, I baked my 3rd batch of Amish Friendship bread, trying a pretty different variation. Chocolate chocolate chip muffins. Unfortunately, I overestimated the amount of time that it would take them to bake, so some weren't really salvagable. However, the flavor is pretty good (minus the charring). I don't know how much more bread we can eat, but I'm excited to try the sourdough recipe as well as a bundt cake... maybe raspberry chip?

So, with all this bread we have to eat, I've been trying to keep the momentum going at the gym. I took last week off due to the stomach flu, so I hit the eliptical hard on Monday. My personal best of 30 minutes! Of course, last night I was really tired, so I only could do 15 minutes. But I've been noticing that my endurance is improving as well as some of the aches and pains that I used to get on a regular basis.