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Chi-Town!

August 14, 2010 5 Comments

I made it to the HLS!

I am exhausted, so this post is gonna be a quick one. Need to catch those zzz’s. Here’s a rundown of my first day in Chi-town:

Woke up extra early this morning (hello 4:45am) to give myself plenty of time to get to the airport. Subsequently missed the exit for the airport on the turnpike, which added 20 minutes to the drive. Woops! Then I parked in thee farthest spot in the parking lot, only to tote my two over packed bags to the furthest terminal (Cleveland Hopkins seriously needs a shuttle!).

1 luna bar, 1 subway egg-white English muffin, and 3 cups of coffee later I arrived in Chicago!

I met up with my roommate Haya (check her out at TrainingtoLive, and Sarah from TheShuBox, and Meg of BeFitBeFull for lunch at Luna.

After some help from the waiter, I went with the shitake mushroom quesadilla:

It was DELICIOUS. Definitely check this place out next time you’re in Chicago! I also want to mention how cool it was to be sitting at a table of awesome ladies and ALL of us were snapping photos of the food! Usually it’s just me being the “weird” one. Kind of liberating 🙂

After lunch, we took an Architect Boat tour. I’m not super in to architecture, but I DO love boats, sunshine, and taking pictures 🙂

Here’s a few of the pics for your viewing pleasure 😀

After the boat tour & some much-needed showering, we headed to the LaSalle Power co for a cocktail party:

The grub:

Check out our swag bag goodies:

On that happy note, goodnight friends!

Restaurants, Travel

End of Vaca

July 20, 2010 3 Comments

Monday morning we left Charleston and headed to Botany Bay Plantation on Edisto Island. We got a ton of great pics. Here are just a few:

We munched on the remnants of food we brought from home while driving through the plantation. For more information on Edisto Island, check out www.edistobeach.com.

Then we headed back to Charlotte. This time, Priceline got us a room at the Double-Tree in Uptown Charlotte for only $45 a night 😀

We really liked this hotel (especially because you get free chocolate chip cookies when you check in)…

The bed was lot more comfortable than Aloft’s bed, however you really just cannot beat the Aloft location!

Here are some shots of Charlotte:

Monday night we headed to Rockbottom for some cheesy jalapeno dip (hello $5 appetizers!) and drinks:

Then to Aria for dinner.

Aria was a lot fancier/swankier than I expected, but I thought the bartenders were pretty rude :-/

We ordered a Super Tuscan Wine to start:

We’ve never tried this type of wine before and we both really liked it!

We ordered the bruschetta for the appetizer:

This was actually served cold, which I thought was odd. Then we got the vodka penne for dinner and added grilled chicken. The pasta was super tasty, which made up for the appetizer. Didn’t capture a photo unfortunately.

Tuesday morning, we went to the Holiday Inn’s Cafe Siena for our favorite breakfast buffet. Walked around the city, then hit up Fuel on our way back to Ohio.

Jarrod is obsessed with Fuel’s chicken parm calzone. I got an Italian sub which was also quite tasty:

And that brings us back to lovely Ohio. First thing I did was head to Acme and buy an ABUNDANCE of produce. My body is just craving healthy eating after a week-long restaurant binge!

Restaurants, Travel

Last day in Charleston

July 19, 2010 6 Comments

Sunday was our last day in Charleston. For breakfast, we nibbled on some of the goods we had brought from home, then headed to the Folly Beach Pier.

We layed out on the beach for a while, then headed to Locklear’s for lunch.

Jarrod got a chicken wrap and I ordered the shrimp burger wrap:

I’m still not entirely sure what a shrimp burger is made of, and I don’t think my belly was very fond of it! That’s ok, that left more room for hushpuppies 🙂 The food wasn’t stellar, but we were really there for the view anyway:

After lunch, we strolled along the pier.

Then back to the beach so Jarrod could catch some rays:

And I could lay under the pier in the shade: Haha…

And then I got pooped on… Second time time that has happened to me. It’s supposed to be good luck, but I don’t know about that. Getting pooped on is pretty crappy in my opinion 😉

Lucky for you, I didn’t take a picture!

For dinner, we hit up the Mellow Mushroom.

This place was, well, trippy, for lack of a better word:

I orderd the field green salad and Jarrod got the ceaser salad and some tortilla soup:

Of course we also got some bruschetta to share:

All of this was delicious, but the Gourmet White pizza we ordered was AMAZING:

Jarrod said he could “eat this for nine days.” Thankfully, we don’t have a Mellow Mushroom near home… though there is one in Columbus….

After dinner, we went to the Vendue Inn Roooftop bar for a drink:

Love this bar. It was really nice and breezy and they had some great live music. We also saw Nick Lachey which was funny.

Today we are headed home. Strike that. Change of plans! Today we are headed to Edisto Beach, then back to Charlotte 😀 Home will have to wait!

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10-Mile-Saturday

July 18, 2010 5 Comments

Saturday morning I woke up around 7am to get my run in. It was already 80+ degrees and 85%+ humidity. Perfect running weather, right? Even though the air was so thick feeling, I was excited to get out and explore some of Charleston on my run. I’m still on week #5 of the interval training, which means I’m doing 3 intervals of 3 minutes walking and 7 minutes running.

Here’s the route I ran:

My time per mile was a lot slower than my Charlotte run earlier in the week — but I’ll crack that up to the crazy humidity!

We were planning to have a late breakfast, and were in search of bottomless mimosas, so we headed to Toast.

Bottomless mimosas:

I took this picture several times, and somehow a bulging bicep kept appearing in the background… 😉

We split the Deluxe French Toast stuffed with apples and apple syrup:

And the all garden omelet (which I added sausage, zucchini, and pepper jack cheese to):

Both of these were delicious, and the mimosa made for a very relaxing brunch 🙂

(Unintentional foreshadowing: we are headed to the Folly Beach Pier today!)

After brunch, we set out to walk along the river banks. We walked, and walked, and wallllkkkeeeedddd…..

On our way back towards the studio, we stopped at the Buccaneer restaurant for some margaritas and snacks. The Buccaneer has a ton of authentic pirate artifacts, which was pretty neat.

I ordered the crab cake:

This was pretty good, but I don’t think my belly is sold on crab meat yet. I could only eat half of this (may have been do to the exhaustion from walking though).

Here’s the route we walked during our Saturday afternoon excursions:

That’s over 7 miles. Add that to the 3 miles for my AM interval training, and you’ve got yourself a 10-Mile-Saturday!

After a much needed 2-hour nap and showers, we headed to California Dreaming for some waterfront dining.

View from our table:

First up was the bottle of wine:

We split the chicken quesadilla appetizer:

SOOO frickin good.

For dinner, we split the blackened chicken pasta:

Pasta four nights in a row? Check. 😀

And then we split the hot brownie with ice cream for dessert:

Of course we were extremely happy with this meal:

We decided to go green on the way home, and called up a Green Taxi:

Jarrod was pretty pumped about this:

Today is our last day in Charleston! We plan to get in a little beach time then head to King street for some grub 🙂

Restaurants, Travel

Friday B,L,D in Charleston

July 17, 2010 7 Comments

For breakfast Friday we decided to head to Hominy Grill, which is a nice short walk from the studio we are renting.

We sat outside on a nice little covered patio that had several mounted fans to cool us down:

We decided to order two dishes to split, and ended up with the sausage omelet with home fries and toast:

And the buttermilk pancakes:

Both of these were DELICIOUS. We also brought some of the housemade banana bread and ginger pumpkin bread home with us:

Box of joy:

We both enjoyed both of these breads, though I preferred the pumpkin and Jarrod preferred the banana.. so that worked out quite well 🙂

After breakfast, we headed to Folly Beach for a little sun, and the sand, and drinks in our hands napping on the beach:

All the sun and salt water made us crazy hungry, so we stopped at the Triangle Char bar for lunch:

For an appetizer, we ordered the cheesy sausage Tailgate Dip. Cheesy Heaven:

I ordered the Turkey Burger, which was called the “I’m on a diet but still want a burger, burger”

I ended up only eating half of the burger, because we had such a big breakfast and all the cheesy dip. The avocado spread is what really made the burger tasty.

Jarrod got the spicy chicken tacos, which he REALLY liked:

After our late lunch, we headed back to the studio for some napping/showering then headed on our merry way to dinner. We decided to go to Sermet’s Corner on King Street. The restaurant had great ambiance, and kind of funky decor:

For the appetizer, we ordered the Baked Artichoke Torta:

Looks beautiful, tasted like butt. Haha.. unfortunately the menu didn’t mention that the torta was FILLED with black olives. Jarrod dislikes black olives. I, on the other hand, DESPISE black olives. I feel like they taint everything they touch… there’s just no eating around them because once they are in a dish the whole dish is RUINED (in my opinion anyway 😉 )

Lucky for us, the main course was AMAZING. We ordered the chicken sautéed with chorizo sausage, roasted red peppers, and sweat peas, in a red wine thyme gorgonzola reduction over penne pasta:

A-may-zing. For the record, that is pasta for night #3 in a row.. Hahaha 😀

On the way home, we decided to take one of the bike taxis back to the studio. Here’s a pic of me trying to discretely take a pick of the driver’s t-shirt without the driver noticing… Too bad he noticed, so I felt bad and didn’t try to take another clearer pic.. hahahah

For my raincheck b-day cake, we stopped at Cupcake and I got a Chocolate Tuxedo Cupcake:

This was so decadent…the icing was so thick and creamy it literally took several attempts to swallow… I saved half for later today 🙂

Today we’re heading to the harbor to do some actual sighteeing and some (more) eating 😉

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