Morning!
Things are starting to amp up over here for the wedding festivities – 2 days to go! On the agenda today is brunch with Matt’s parents, getting my hair highlighted, a final dress fitting (there were a couple more things that needed to be done when I went on Sunday… fingers crossed it’s ready now), and then making our welcome gift bags! Tonight we have plans for a big family dinner out.
I had a nice day yesterday – spent most of the day working on the computer doing emails, blog stuff, wedding stuff, etc., but I took a break at lunchtime and headed downtown to meet one of my bridesmaids, Turner, for lunch!
It was a lovely day to be downtown – beautiful weather. We hit up Protein Bar, which is a new favorite! All sorts of healthy and creative options.
I ended up getting a huge vegan salad – packed with all sorts of veggies, tofu, pumpkin seeds, chickpeas, and a creamy chia dressing. Very good!
We enjoyed this artwork while we ate. 
I spent the rest of the day doing a little more wedding stuff, headed downtown to meet my friend Kathleen for a walk, and then Matt and I hit up Crossfit Dupont for a workout!
I rocked a fun new shirt that Reebok sent me last week. Love it! Made me feel more hardcore. 
It was a good workout – we practiced bench presses and then did a short workout with 5 rounds of 30 seconds of pull ups (I did mine jumping up from a stool) and 30 seconds of burpees. Short and sweet!
Matt and I picked up some Whole Foods hot bar for dinner since our fridge is empty (no point in refilling it since we’re leaving on Friday!) – I forgot to get a photo, but I did get a photo of dessert, which was way more interesting anyway.
As part of the DailyBuzz Food Tastemaker program with Ghirardelli Intense Dark™, I was sent a bunch of fun dark chocolate varieties to test out. I’m not a huge milk chocolate fan but I love me some super dark chocolate. It’s such a perfect way to end a meal!
Matt and I tried out the toffee interlude and the sea salt soiree last night. Just a little taste of each was perfect for my after dinner sweet craving! Our favorite was the sea salt soiree, but both were great.
I also had a tiny nibble of this cabernet matinee – can’t WAIT to have this paired with red wine next time! It would go so well together. Maybe once the wedding is over we’ll have friends over for a wine and chocolate night!
Thanks, Ghirardelli, for giving us the perfect post-dinner treat.
Time to get started with the day – have a great Thursday, everyone!
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This post is brought to you by Ghirardelli Intense Dark™ Chocolate.
Cute shirt! I workout at Reebok Crossfit Fifth Avenue and they are selling the shirts there.. I actually bought one the other day but decided against it.
your wedding is close!!! Can’t wait to hear all about it!
Eeeh I’m so excited for you! We’ll have to finally meet up when you’re back from your wedding/honeymoon – looking forward to hearing all about it!
Have a great wedding weekend! I can’t wait to read about it:)
What an exicting couple of days your having!! Have a blast and enjoy it!
Canadian reader here.
http://healthandfitness.sympatico.ca/news/products_containing_peanut_butter_recalled/8ade2512
Please see the recall for Justin’s Peanut Butter. I saw your post a couple of days ago but the news on the recall today.
Thanks for the heads up! My PB packets are embarrassingly old so I think I’m good
Yum, I totally wanna check out Protein Bar!
We have The Protein Bar in Chicago and I love it! I have yet to try that Vegan salad, but it sounds amazing.
The countdown is on…good luck!
one cup quinoa = 8g protein
one egg = 6g protein
Are they using mini eggs in their calculations? Quinoa is great but that sign is pretty deceiving.
I have no idea
Maybe they sneakily used dry quinoa in their calculations?
I love dark chocolate. 85%is my favorite. Can’t wait for you to share the wedding dress with us after the wedding. You will won’t you??
Of course!
Cute T-Shirt! You ROCK it well!
And I heart ‘dark chocolate sea salt soiree’…..Mmmmm!!!!
Glad you’re out enjoying the last few days -before the BIG day!
Woo-Hooo!!!
Good morning, Anne. I hope you are well today. I was just wondering, I have a Macy’s ad running under your banner. Is that suppose to be there??
Never mind. I just refreshed the page and the ad is gone. I get a lot of these weird ads popping up on your page. Once I had an eat more banana’s pop up. Oh, well.
I switched advertisers so I have some more ads around – I know it doesn’t look as pretty but sadly I’ve got to pay back my grad school loans somehow!