Girls Night Out

Hi guys!

Dinner with Caitlin and Meghann was SO great! Part of me feels sad because this whole time in Orlando I’ve been a little lonely and then right when I start meeting more people I have to move! Wouldn’t ya know?! We went to dinner at this Thai place near Caitlin’s apartment (called Royal Thai on Semoran for Orlando folks) and it was deeeelicious! I heart Thai food big time so I had been looking forward to this for days.

I had the cucumber salad to start. The dressing was a sweet and spicy chili sauce. Very much yum.

And then for dinner I had my all time favorite: Basil Tofu. Goodness, I love me some Basil Tofu. I pretty much order it at every Thai place I ever go to. It’s sooooo amazing!

Now this was good but the best Basil Tofu I’ve ever had in my entire life hands down was at this Thai restaurant in Charleston called Basil. It’s on King Street for any Charleston readers and it’s AMAZING! The best Thai restaurant I’ve ever been to. I would have dreams about the tofu there. No kidding. Anyways, this tofu was quite good as well and I probably finished about three quarters of it.

It came with fluffy white rice—-

Which was a nice splurge since I don’t eat many white things.

After we ate we wanted something sweet (or was that just me??!!) so we hightailed it to Dandelion for cookies since it was on Megan and my way back to I4. It did not disappoint. I love this place!

I got a vegan cinnamon cookie with vanilla icing!

It was absolutely delicious but gone in about two seconds flat. Caitlin got a vegan coconut cookie and Megahnn got a vegan orange chocolate brownie! YUM!

We had so much fun that we decided to have another date NEXT Wednesday (kind of nice to break up the week!) at Ethos Vegan Kitchen since both Caitlin and I have always wanted to try it out. I have to fit in all these cool places before I move in a couple weeks!

When I got home I still was a little snackie but I decided to just make some tea and call it a night. I gave the girls some chocolate chip oatmeal bars to go so I wouldn’t be faced with them all when I came home!! 😉

We also discussed my “going away party” which is going to take place here on the 25th, a Thursday night. The plan is to go out to dinner then go to the Wine Room in Winter Park (so I can test my skills, obvi). If any of you guys want to come you are more than welcome!!

Back to the rest of my day! This afternoon was a great example of a day when I reaaaaally didn’t feel like going to the gym. Bleh. But…I knew I would feel better if I got off my butt and was active for a little while and so I went. It wasn’t too long or hard of a workout but here’s what I did:

about 10 minutes of spinning to warm up

2 sets of triceps kickbacks. 15 lbs each.

2 sets of biceps curls on cable machine. 10 lbs each.

2 sets of lat raises. 10 lbs each

2 sets of shoulder presses. 10 lbs each

2 sets of pushups. 12 reps each.

2 sets of twisted leg crunches

2 sets of crunches with legs at 90 degrees

another 5 minutes or so of spinning.

= 30 minute workout

I wanted to do longer but it was soo boring because the spinning machines are just facing the wall. Not even a tv or anything! You have to be totally focused to get going…sometimes I’m feelin’ it and most of the time I’m not. I’m finding that the more and more I run outside (like my run yesterday), the more I just don’t want to be stuck in my apartment gym. I’m sure it would be cooler if I was a member of a real gym and then I could actually go to spinning classes and stuff…but this is getting old! Oh well, 2 more weeks….

After the gym I snacked on a chobani with a half serving of Ezekiel cereal and a little raspberry preserves mixed in:

And a little while later I had a couple handful of these pretzels before I left for din-din:

I’ve been super snacky all day!!! Maybe it was the mid-morning wine?! Regardless, I’m off to take a bath and get in bed to read! Have a great night, y’all!