Living it up in NYC!

Hey y’all!  We’re in NYC and totally having a blast!!!

I’ll be talking about food in my What I Ate Wednesday post, so I thought I’d just post some fun walking around pics today!

The weather was seriously gorgeous (like in the lower 80’s) so we decided to go for a walk around central park.  It was so beautiful!!!

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Gorgeous, yes?

General wandering around pics…

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Carrie’s Stoop!!!!

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Grand Central Station!

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I’m having so much fun!  I’m so sad to be leaving tomorrow!

Catch ya later!!

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Wrapping up in Philly + headed to NYC!

We finished up HLS in Philly this morning with a 5K walk to the Rocky stairs and a lovely breakfast!

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Yesterday was full of sessions on writing a better recipe, a session on action mantras (by a really awesome RD- this was my favorite thing about the whole summit!), and eating healthy while traveling.

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Lunch sandwiches- p.s. the great harvest bread is the BEST bread I’ve ever had.  Seriously.

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Don’t ask.  I don’t know what we were thinking.

Then we packed it up and hopped a train to NYC!!!!  Me, Laura, Rachel, and Michelle are hitting up the big apple.

Indian food has been had (Channa Masala and Naan) and naps have been taken.

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And now we’re trying to decide what to do tonight!

Hope everyone had an amazing weekend!

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Getting’ Historical With It

Day 2 in Philly and HLS is almost underway! We spent most of the day wandering around being all touristy!

 

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The only thing that I haven’t gotten to do yet that I need to do before I leave is to go to the Rocky steps!

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Chillin’ in Philly!

Hey friends!!!

I’m in Philly for Healthy Living Summit

Laura and I took off early this morning for the city of brotherly love!  When we got here we met up with Cynthia and Michelle, who are going to be our roomies for the next few days!

Hey roomies!

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Lots of chatting, giggling, and walking ensued as we explored Philly.

China Town.  There may or may not have been several bags of irregular fortune cookies from a fortune cookie factory involved .

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A couple of wandering around pictures- I’m totally in love with the buildings here!

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Hooray for new friends!

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WIAW: Austin Edition

Hey friends!  Our internet has been down since we’ve been back from our trip so I haven’t been able to post this until today, so I thought I’d incorporate it into my WIAW post!

Not only has the internet been down (and just got repaired about an hour ago), but my car died and has been in the shop!  The power steering pump went out and it’s costing some mega bucks to get it fixed!  I have all the luck, huh?!  Sigh.

Our last day in Austin was filled with amazing food!

Starting with some Biscuits and Groovy for breakfast!  These biscuits were indeed groovy!

Biscuits + veggie sausage + french press coffee = one happy girl!

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Lunch was at the MOTHER of all whole foods!  Seriously I don’t think I can go back to my normal whole foods after going to that one!  It was ginormous!!

Salad with a little of this and a little of that and with tahini dressing!

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Lime sparkling mineral water that I’m now obsessed with.  Thanks Laura!

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An amaaaazing samosa!  Potatoes + peas + curry= can’t go wrong with that!

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Snack= juice from Daily Juice!  I got beet/orange/apple/ginger- mmmmmm!!!!

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Dinner was pizza at Conan’s! (thanks to my friend Schuyler for the suggestion!)  Whole wheat deep dish pizza with veggies and dairy free (Daiya) cheese!  The crust was seriously phenomenal!

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Dessert!!!  Another shake from the ice cream shop in Toy Joy!  This time I went for the chocolate mint- oh em gee!!!!

 

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Shopping trip to SoCo (South Congress)!  Very cool area with some great funky shops!

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We rounded out the evening with a trip to the South Congress Avenue bridge to see the bats come out!  I think we got there a little late because we only saw a few.  Oh well.  It was still pretty cool seeing all the people out there kayaking and checking out the bats!

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Whew!  What a whirl-wind trip!  And I head out to Philly tomorrow morning for HLS!  Can’t wait!!!!

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