It’s been a great two weeks! Lots of family time, sleeping in, shopping (lots), and hanging on the beach. As if that wasn’t enough, I got to spend five extra days with just my best friend, Preeya, who moved away to Texas last Summer. A too short but sweet reunion. I can’t wait until the next one! Europe? New York? California???!
Recap on my trip and Crazy Sexy Adventure Cleanse wrap-up coming soon!
Hi! I’ll make this quick because I have safely made it to Miami, it is 4:00 a.m. and my entire family is doing tequila shots and telling awfully embarrassing stories
My alarm went off at 5:30 this morning, I uttered hateful, unladylike words to it, and then drove to the gym for Bodypump where the teacher FAILED TO SHOW UP. Since I was already there I did my own workout inspired by Bodypump. Not as fun or challenging but something>nothing
It was a rainy, gray morning so I made a big bowl of oats with banana, blueberries, chia seeds, almond milk, granola, and peanut butter.
Last minute packing and nail painting ensued, lunch was a bunch of snacks: A macrobar, some green juice, an apple, roasted seaweed etc. etc.
YYC -> DFW (Dallas)
We had dinner at Blue Mesa and I got veggie tacos on some corn tortillas with a side salad. Easier than expected to find cleanse friendly eats at the airport!
DFW -> MIA (MIAMI!!!!)
Back to the fam, I’ve been sniffing my mom’s glass of wine for the last half hour..
I leave for Miami the day after tomorrow. I plan on throwing whatever is clean into my luggage 15 minutes before departure and cursing myself the entire time I am away that I didn’t plan more efficiently. Acknowledged. Progress.
I’ve been enjoying the same chocolate cherry milkshake smoothie for breakfast for the greater part of this cleanse. If it aint broke… It’s simply frozen banana, frozen cherries, a heaping spoonful of cocoa powder, chia seeds, almond butter and almond milk with a few big handfuls of spinach or kale (or both!) I sometimes add a handful of raw oatmeal if I’m hungrier.
I bummed around for the morning, watching a few episodes of Dexter — I plough through TV series’ like no body’s business. In the last little while I finished LOST, Mad Men, Arrested Development, Community and Girls. It’s a wonder I get anything else accomplished.
Eat – TV – Eat again
Traditional chicken salad has never really appealed to me, but the thought of veganizing the popular, gloppy mess of a sandwich staple sounded fun.
Chick-Un Salad
Serves 1
Ingredients:
1/4 block extra firm tofu, pressed and diced
1/2 apple
1/2 c. grapes
2 tbsp. walnuts, chopped
1 celery stalk, diced
2 tbsp. red onion, diced
1 tbsp. hummus
1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 tbsp. lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Mix and serve with crackers, in a sandwich, wrap or over a bed of greens.
Come to think of it, this would have made a great stuffing for lettuce wraps.
After lunch I declared the day to be TO beautiful to sit at home and watch a handsome serial killer murder other serial killers (seriously, how do they come up with this stuff?) I put on some people clothes and took a stroll to the natural foods market to do some window shopping and pick up a couple of food things to take with me to Miami — protein powder sample packs and a few different kinds of bars, “just in case” things. We’ll probably do a quick grocery trip once we get to Miami because I’m so high maintenance according to my loving family 
My walk accidentally ended up being about a 4 mile loop! Carrying groceries on the way back! Afterwards I took my favorite hot and sweaty class at Yoga Passage so basically my laziness earlier in the day was effectively cancelled out. It’s science.
Home at last after a perfect week of tropical escape.
So long, island of sandy toes , Pina Coladas and sun-burnt shoulders.
Back to the land of responsibilities and technology.
Where ice cream does not make for an appropriate afternoon snack. Hmph.
Exercise occurs on a revolving plastic track as opposed to mindless jaunts down an endless road of sand, shells and sunshine.
Calls of exotic birds and sunbeams creeping through your windows replace the soul crushing melodies of your cell phone alarm clock
Itineraries are merely guidelines
Time goes by slowly, but the days went by much too fast
