Scenes from the Weekend: Volume 7

Maybe I should just rename this to "Scenes from the Week" because I seem to start the recaps earlier than Friday.  Hmmmm...

On Thursday I went running with my friend at a park near our house.  I haven't really run since November when I very smartly ran a half marathon with a bad case of plantar fasciitis (worst half marathon time, new record!), and that one other time when I wore the wrong sports bra and was in so much pain I had to turn around and come home.  These are my new running shoes - I was secretly hoping for Mizunos since they were the best pair I ever owned, but ended up getting these Brooks Ravenna 5s instead...and some really bright socks.  I met my friend at Whole Foods and we set off on what I thought was going to be a short 3-mile run, but instead ended up being over 5.5 and then I walked another half a mile back to the house.  Needless to say, my hips and shins felt GREAT after that (if great means sore for three days).

On Friday, I had Pure Barre class (of course!), but I hit a big milestone!  After the holidays, I decided to try for the 20 consecutive classes challenge (check, did 21 classes in 20 days), and then they announced the 60-Day Challenge, which consisted of doing 50 classes in 60 days.  I was hoping my work schedule would allow it, and last Friday I hit the 50 classes, but in 43 days - 17 days early, no big deal.  I have a post planned for tomorrow where I'll talk more about it, but I was so excited!

After class I participated in one of my favorite activities - wandering around Target (just kidding) (kind of).  Check out the adorable graphic on their toilet paper - so cute!  Not cute enough to make me buy it, but still.  I have a hard time saying no to sheep.

Saturday morning we were on our eight millionth day of rain, so I broke out the short wellies with my green pants.  I'm obsessed with these legwarmers from lululemon!  I have never had leg warmers before but these are so soft and I love how they look with yoga pants and boots.

The cross stitches Marek's grandmother had made for us for my bridal shower were finally shipped to us (many thanks to Marek's brother!).  Now we just need to decide where to hang them.  The pastoral scene on the right is easy - we'll probably put that in the living room somewhere, but the one on the left?  Not exactly sure where we will put Christ on a Rock.

And lest you think I'm being mean, that is how it translates from the Polish.  Christ on Rock...in our apartment.

Marek went hiking on Saturday so I worked on a little crafting project.  I am determined to send a birthday card to all of our wedding guests and I have been making the cards myself using stamps and the embossing heater thing.  I like the personal touch (even if no one knows, not sure it's obvious they're homemade) but I fell behind in February and there are a TON of people with birthdays in March, so I just cranked them out in the afternoon.

I also enjoyed a little humor - a dachshund and Lord of the Rings mash-up?  I love it!  (I showed this to Marek and he had no clue what this quote is from.  Who did I marry?)

On Sunday I dragged myself out of bed for the early class and then rewarded myself with some fried eggs on toast with cheese and bacon - except I used Parmesan cheese and prosciutto because Italian food is awesome.

After breakfast I flipped through a cookbook for some inspiration and then Claudius and I took a nap on the floor.  Well, he took a nap on his bed, and I...still took a nap on the floor.

We finally broke open the Baked by Melissa cupcakes we had ordered - so good!  The Valentine's Day special cupcakes did not disappoint, and I'm still trying to decide if I like the mint chocolate or chocolate chip pancake better.

After wolfing down our cupcakes (I ate mine in the car), we headed over to Marymoor Park to see Cavalia Odysseo (which is pronounce "oh-di-SAY-oh", not "oh-DIS-ee-o", like I thought), which I think is basically Cirque du Soleil with horses.  I'm just guessing on that because I've never seen Cirque du Soleil.  Cirque came to Marymoor last year (which is right near us) and we never went and kind of regretted it, so we made sure to get tickets to Cavalia this year.

The show did not disappoint!  I have no pictures from the inside because they're not allowed, but it was really great.  It was a nice mix of acrobatics, crazy gymnastic flips, and of course, the horses!  I love horses so it was really fun to see so many of them.  Some of the segments kind of stretched on (horses walking in circles), but it was good overall and definitely worth the trip.  I think this was the first weekend it was open and during the very last segment, the last horse and his rider were leaving the "stage" and the horse fell and landed on the guy.  It was a little scary - the guy had trouble getting up at first and you could have heard a pin drop while we waited to see if he was OK.  Luckily he was and he even got back on his horse and they rode off.  Phew!

Marek and I were having a discussion before the show started about whether or not this was a circus.  I said no because I said a circus has to have elephants and clowns...and a lion with a lion tamer who has a whip and wears tails (basically, Dumbo, haha).  Marek disagreed and said this was a circus.  FourSquare agreed with him!

What else happened this weekend?  Oh right, it rained.  Pretty much all of the time.  Yesterday we were on our 13th straight day of rain.  Enough already!  It's been coming down pretty steadily, even pouring, but Mother Nature doesn't have the decency to give us a great thunderstorm or anything.  Just rain.  All the time.