Soupasana

Food, finally! The buddy day workout was beyond awesome and warranted some serious fuel!

No, no – that’s not mine.

But this is: steelcut oatmeal + almond butter + jam + coconut milk + coconut flakes. Mmmmm….

And morning juice:

Raisin spelt bread with sunflower seed butter + apple + brown sugar. Like I said – some serious fuel.

My BlackBerry has been slowly dying over the past few months – slowly losing one function after another. So, on the agenda for today was cell phone shopping. Or, to be more exact, walking in the store, and knowing exactly what we are getting (thanks to living with a gadget man).

Vlad and the happy hippo…

Vlad at his happiest – playing with technology!!!

Motorola Milestone, everyone! I finally cheated on BlackBerry – Google won.

Soupasana on my phone!

Whew – all this technology makes me hungry. Tofu teriyaki with brown rice and vegetables!

Side by side photo comparison:

My point and shoot with flash:

My point and shoot without flash:

My Milestone:

We also got some vegetable rolls. They had the potential to be great! But for some reason, all they had was greens… Really dry. I mean, come on – would it hurt to throw in some tomatoes and avocado?

Shrimp and chicken soup for Vlad. As for his face being cut off, I’m just gonna go ahead and say that it was a creative photo technique. Yep, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

So yeah – playing with the phone now. Did I mention I can blog FROM the phone??? Too good to be true…

Let’s just say that I slept as long as possibly could today! After the wild night of yoga and pizza that ended up being about 4 hours. Despite having made a full oatmeal breakfast, I realized that I simply would not be able to do the things I may be asked to do. So just coffee then, and off I went…

Lynda is wondering what the heck she got herself into… Clapp looks like she knows the answer to that question.

This woman always smiles. It’s almost worrisome.

Hi, Short! Ra-ra-ra!

More members and buddies showing up!

No camera for the next 1.5 hours, because I was too busy trying to survive.

Almost done…

No, wait. Plank!

Corporal Francis demonstrating perfect form – keep your body in a straight line, hips up high.

We are all holding plank, as we are waiting for the rest of the platoon to show up. Carroll looking wistfully in their direction.

Short is counting down. My ears are still ringing…

Looking good, platoon!

HUA!

Whew – after two hot yoga classes, it was shower and then off to Roopa’s house for a study session with my lovely yoga teachers. Ok, who are we kidding? The study aspect of the group was dropped in favour of the pizza chomping…

Vegan friendly – no cheese, tomatoes, black olives, green peppers, mushrooms. I also asked for broccoli, but that was nowhere to be found…

And chicken, sundried tomatoes and feta… Melty.

Our gorgeous hostess – check out that smile!

Sandra and Kim with the expectant gleam in their eye… Are we eating yet?

Bright colors on the table are always good!

Finally!

Another gorgeous smile! And check out Jenn with a strawberry! What else?

It was Sandra’s birthday on Sunday, so, of course, we celebrated (as it was well, WELL past midnight).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sandra!!!

After food, all kinds of stimulating conversations ensued. Stefania took the cake for the stories. It was Days of Our Lives meets Sopranos…

The best chairs hang from the ceiling… Like so.

Despite having talked three of these yogis into joining me for Soldiers of Fitness buddy day tomorrow, they all opted out. On the other hand, we did stay up until 3am. Just me then…