Friday, March 23, 2012

Am I Not Adorable?

Last night I found myself doing two very mundane chores.  First, the fridge is so empty that I took 15 minutes and washed every shelf and drawer.  Boring, but it looks good now.

The second chore was to tackle the most horrible (debatable) closet in our house.  Jay's been nagging me for a while to get it done so I dived in last night. I found a lot of junk, but a lot of treasures too.  I think I forgot that this picture existed!  I love it!  I compared it to my neices Thea and Delaney, but they don't look like me.  The back says that this was summer when I was two years old.  Am I not adorable?

Off to do another mundane chore - food shopping. Ug.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

An Indian Birthday Affair...with lots of wine!

Today's adventure: Indian Cooking Class!

I signed my best friend Jami and I up for an Indian Cooking Class in celebration of her birthday.  We arrived a bit early to have a glass of wine in preparation for the class and found out all the wine was included in the class. That made the night beyond awesome!!!!!!

We enjoyed our wine at the cooking area which was all set up ready for the class.
 Jami enjoying one of the wines.
 These two guys spent about and hour and a half cooking about 6 different recipes for us to taste. I don't remember much about it because I was too busy enjoying all the wine and laughing with Jami!

 Our glasses were never empty.  These guys know how to put together a kick-ass cooking class!
 The marinated mushrooms were the best thing of the night.  I can't wait to make them!
 This chick pea flour bread was okay, but the honey-ginger naan was to DIE for!
 Getting our giggles on!  Nothing like a good friend to share in an adventure!
 After the class, we were served dinner. We sat with some interesting folks.  The guy on the right with the tattoo arm - very, very odd.  To say the least.  Everyone else was pretty funny, although I kept having the feeling that Jami and I were the only normal people there!
 Enjoying the spread and, did I mention, the wine!
 Yum!!!!!!
 They found out it was Jami's birthday, so they brought out a birthday cake and we all sang the song.  It was a fun, fun, fun night and I wish it went on forever.

Monday, March 19, 2012

An Adventure A Day!

I've decided to resurect this blog. I miss posting about what I've been up to. My plan is to try to post something a few times a week, focusing on an adventure I've had. I want to put 'adventure' into the mundane. So I imagine that much of my posts will be things that I have planned or regularly do or visit or whatever. I'm sure there's a great quote out there somewhere, but basically my life is my adventure, right?! Well, here goes!


I won two Old Town Kayaks last fall and we haven't had a chance to use them. Yesterday was 70 and beautiful, so we loaded them up and headed to Long Pond. We had a great 2-hour paddle. We went through a marshy area, then onto the Pond which had waves like the ocean, and then on a smooth, calm section of the Pond.


We stopped at a small secluded beach to take a rest so I took some pictures.






Here's the view from my kayak!


The best view of all - Smiling Jay!


We saw a ton of red-bellies sunning themselves. Look how far up these guys were able to climb!