Today marks the first day of SUMMER VACATION! Hip hip hoooray! Unfortunately, my chest is pretty gunky so rather than kicking off our two month break with a pina colada last night, I finished my zpack. Oh boy oh boy!
Crawling out of bed at 8:40 am was pure bliss (until the 15 minutes of hacking up phlegm that congealed in my chest over night commenced). I made some whole wheat banana pancakes, sipped some OJ, and discussed with Mike some of the flaws in our education system. But, I won't be thinking about that long list again for a couple of weeks, hopefully.
While I could have easily lounged on the couch all day to nurse myself back to good health, Mike and I decided to run a few errands since we only have 9 days left until our trip to Paris!! Our first stop was to Best Buy for the third time to look at camera cases. I am very particular about what I want to carry around my dslr in while overseas. I need enough room to hold both lenses, but I don't want to look like a total tourist with a huge sling bag on my back. The other problem with the sling bags is that there is no hidden zipper up against my back to hold money or my phone. All of the zippers are on the back of the bag making it way too easy for someone to snatch something from me. You may call this paranoia, but it's not. I was in Spain once and one of my friends was pick pocketed with three of us standing around completely unaware! Any who, Best Buy was a bust AGAIN.
Next we went to Kohl's because Mike had a coupon...and I'm a sucker for coupons. I bought these bad boys.
They are definitely the type of sneakers where you either love them or you hate them. I happen to love them. They match almost all of the t-shirts I've bought in VS over the past two months (I'm very into all of the bright colors out there!) and they're different. While the sky blue shoelaces are pretty bold, I figured I could always switch them out with white or gray to tone them down. What do you think?
We made our way up to another shopping center a few towns away from us which happens to be the mecca of outdoor shopping. This place is nuts. We had lunch at a restaurant, recommended by a friend, called Stir Crazy. It reminded me a little of PF Chang's - kind of an Asian American infusion. Our waitress gave us a mini wok and told us to fill it up with any vegetables we'd like and then hand it to the chef to cook right in front of us. I filled my wok with carrots, mushrooms, onions, red cabbage, scallions, peppers, bean sprouts, pea pods, pineapple, garlic, and teriyaki sauce. I really enjoyed picking out my own ingredients. What I enjoyed even more was that they were fresh. Then we watched as the chef dumped all of the veggies on a giant wok over these really huge flames, which, quite frankly, I have no idea how he didn't burn himself on them. He added some tofu and lo mein noodles to it as well. After a few minutes of flipping the wok our food was done. OH MY GOODNESS it was freaking delicious! My only regret is that I gave the chef too much teriyaki sauce to cook with so my dish was a little salty. Other than that, it tasted so good! Thankfully, the waitress brought us some fortune cookies to calm our tongues down from all the salt.
I guess I won't be a teacher forever then....
Upward and onward. Despite being too full to move, we made our way into another camera store where, thankfully, I found a camera case that suited my needs!! It's compact yet fits both of my lenses. It has zippers inside of the case to store my money and phone. And it's not as masculine looking as most camera cases are. It actually almost looks like a purse! Relief!
And now, friends, after my long, exhausting, hard day of "work," it is time to resume my position on the couch and rest. Perhaps the funk in my chest will subside with some chapters of Game of Thrones...?
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