Well, I had my first weekend back at school, and it was pretty fabulous. It ended up being jam packed, and I think I managed to see almost all of my school friends!

It’s good to be back.

Friday night, I convinced my friends to drink kale juice, and everyone liked it! Technically it was kale-pineapple, but I still consider it a victory.

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Saturday morning, I was up early to go to the Farmer’s Market to get more fancy sunflower seed butter. I ended up just getting maple, but the vendor lets you request specific flavors by email so maybe next time I’ll do that! I also got some of the last fruit of summer.

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For brunch, my dorm’s RFs (a family that lives in the dorm) invited us over to hang out and meet their pets. They have the same type of dog that I do, and she was quite the food-stealing ball of energy! That sounds about right!

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They also have a cat, which I’m pretty excited to visit.

Following brunch, I taught a spin class for some of my friends. They seemed to enjoy it, and everyone got a great workout in! After torturing them for 45 minutes though, I drove some of us to froyo to refuel. My favorite froyo place is about a 5 minute drive from where we live now. I had salted caramel pretzel and pumpkin pie this time.

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On the way back, we stopped to check out a pumpkin patch. From my last few posts, it may be clear that I’m a tad bit fall obsessed. This was awesome.

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And I also reenacted the Cropfit commercial.

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After a quick dining hall dinner, we cleaned ourselves up for my friend’s housewarming party. It was quite the classy affair-I brought some fancy cheese to add to the collection-goat brie! That’s definitely one of my favorite cheeses.

After staying up a bit later than I should have chatting, I went to one last spin class with my favorite instructor Sunday morning. It was great and fun, as always. I’ve done a ton of spinning lately since I’m not running, and I think my calves are actually sore from it!

I spent the afternoon doing work and now I’m coding. For dinner, it was my dad’s birthday so we went out to a seafood place.

My dish of choice was a stir fry tofu with brown rice.

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After eating, we went to my sister’s apartment for German Chocolate cake.

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Happy Birthday!

Overall, it was such a fun weekend, and I got to see lots of my favorite people!

What did you do this weekend?

 

 

3 comments on “First Week Back

  1. Elsie @ Sharing Healthiness

    Happy Birthday to your Dad!!!
    Looks like your friends had a well rounded healthy weekend….I am sure that spin class was a killer!
    That is definitely pumpkin heaven! Never seen so many in my life!

  2. Christine

    Wow! You’ve been busy! I think it’s a double victory to have gotten your friends to try both kale juice and have you instruct them through a tough spin class haha. Also, HOW COOL IS THAT PUMPKIN PATCH?! I haven’t been to one in ages and might have to see if there’s one close to UCSB when I go back up tonight.

    1. astottler Post author

      You definitely need to! That pumpkin patch is MAYBE 5 mins off campus!

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