With Q completing training, I decided to fly home to finish up some wedding details, spend time with family, friends and the dogs, and to start my masters (2 weeks!!). And let me tell you, it is so nice to be here.
blue skies and no snow / opening all of our RSPV cards / a fried egg on top of wild rice with edamame, water chestnuts, dried cranberries and avocado
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This was truly one of the most fun weekends of my life. My girlfriends are my everything. They planned the best and most “me” bachelorette weekend I could have ever imagined. We drove up to Santa Ynez on Friday and arrived at our amazing rented home by early evening. We were in the hills of Santa Ynez and it was SO peaceful, beautiful and quiet. It was just perfect.
We cooked dinner, drank wine and talked into the wee hours of the night on Friday. We woke up well rested on Saturday and had a day of wine tasting at the local vineyards. It was so much fun!!
Couldn’t resist the vineyard cats!
We all took naps to recover before heading out to dinner at a local Mexican restaurant. After dinner, we came home, lit a fire in our fireplace and kept chatting. It’s amazing how we’ve known each other forever yet can talk until 2AM every night. This morning, we took a walk around our neighborhood before heading home with a pit stop at Anderson’s Pea Soup for lunch!
Overall, it was one of the best weekends of my life. I adore my friends. I love how we make one another better, stronger women and how we support each other no matter what. What a weekend!
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I asked for the Lo & Sons “OG” bag for Christmas and Q, being the sweetest fiancee ever, bought it for me. My first trip with my new carry on was a big one: I was going to take it to Paris, San Francisco and finally LA over a 2 week span. Packing for international travel is tougher than a quick jaunt to LA for the weekend. I had to be prepared for a 15-hour travel day and have everything I would need on hand. And this bag did not disappoint. It has compartments for everything including a padded one for my computer and a separate zipped area for travel shoes. I LOVE that everything had it’s own little spot and I knew exactly where I could find it all.
It’s SO light, waterproof and durable, I had this pup loaded up with my goodies and it held up perfectly. And it looks good! I got the all black with silver hardware and think it is super chic. Those two zippers at the bottom open up so your bag can hook onto a rollie suitcase (genius design feature).
And here are my travel essentials that fit inside!
Neck Pillow
Scarf: Stella & Dot, this is a great in-flight blanket and it’s cute for travel days!
Accessories: I always take a face cream for my dried out skin, hand lotion and hand sanitizer!
Tech Gear: My Bose QuietComfort Noise Cancelling Headphones
Snacks: I don’t like getting hangry (that place where hungry and angry meet), so I always carry a snack with me. Think Thin bars are some of my favorites.
DVD: The Good Wife
So if you couldn’t tell, I adore this bag. It was pricey for a carry on, but SO worth it. I can see myself using this bag for years to come and for other things besides travel like going to the gym. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! Lo & Sons makes a smaller size carry on, if this one seems like too much called “The OMG” and also some other amazing bags on the website!
*I wasn’t paid or given the bag for free, I just loved it so much that I wanted to share it with you!
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WOW. That’s all I can say. The Winter Fancy Food Show is a once in a lifetime experience. To put it simply, the Fancy Food Show is where products, new and old, are displayed for attendees (retailers, caterers, manufacturers, chefs, etc.) to purchase and become informed. Many of the exhibitors are looking for placement in retail stores and distributors, so they are SO friendly and pushing their products on you. Products range from chocolates to teas to gum to dried fruit to waters to sushi to spices, I mean everything!!!! The convention hall is filled with over 260,000 products and 17,000 attendees. And every booth is encouraging you to try their product with samples. I’ve never eaten so many different foods in one day in my life.
Literally full size samples EVERYWHERE! Full Fage (greek yogurt)? Yes please! Pastries galore!!
Me and Aunt Pat and the Jelly Belly mascot!
Olive bar, brownie bites, full size spice grinders and petit fours for tasting!
San Marzano display, a full frozen yogurt station, watermelon decorations and an enormous Walker’s Shortbread area.
In the Canadian food section, I found a Royal Canadian Policeman.
This was just a small, minuscule taste of the craziness that was Fancy Food. I feel “fooded” out and as much fun as it was, I couldn’t wait to get home! My mom and I flew home this morning and have spent the day recovering, unpacking from 12 days on the road and playing with the pups! It feels amazing to be home.
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