Run for the Border!

Hello everyone:

First things first bloggies - I just booked my flight for my upcoming vacation!!!! Woohooo!!! Can you guess where I'm going?



The flag in the background is your clue - MEXICO!!!!!!!!!!! (pronounced Meh-hee-koh :oP) From May 30th - June 6th, I will be flying down to enjoy Mexico with the fiance and my mom. I hope to have enough time to squeeze in these type of activities:

The purpose of the trip will be two-fold: to enjoy ourselves on the beautiful Yucatan Peninsula AND to go scout some prospective wedding locations! That's right bloggies - this TorontoGirloutWest is having a destination wedding! :o) Woohoo!! But more on that in future posts . . . .


Let's re-cap yesterday's eats

For breakfast I thought I would try a protein bar. Specifically, I chose a bar I had seen on numerous blogs - I had high hopes for some seriously yummy eats! It even promised brownie like-goodness.

It was NOT yummy at all!!! In fact it tasted like a protein bar - and by that I mean chalky and not at all satisfying. I was highly disappointed and decided to remedy the situation by whipping myself up a Green Monster (without the any Almond Breeze since I'd ingested so much protein already):

The combination of the bar and my Green Monster (Rawr! lol Yeah I know . . . cheap joke :oP) held the hunger at bay until noon. At lunch I headed out to run a couple of errands and stopped by my local Shoppers Drug Mart. Why? Well the Popchips people had assured me Popchips could now be found in Canada but only at this store. Unfortunately I showed up and the sales people had never heard of Popchips (boo!). Instead I loaded up with some baked Kettle Chips that I paired with a home-made wrap:

Lately I'm becoming a huge fan of wraps. They're less carb-heavy than bread slices. And you can stuff them full of so many wonderful things! :o) I heart them! Especially the kind pictured above - they're WW and made with flax. Yummy and healthy - score!

Afternoon snack was a bit of dates and almonds munched on at my desk:

I hadn't eaten straight-up dates in quite a while. I was happy to have them make their way back into my snacking rotation! :o)

Dinner was a huge salad (way bigger than it looks in the picture) with a grilled steak on top. It was cooked to perfection, if I do say so myself! lol The perfect ending to a long day that had already seen me ingest my fair share of carbs.


It was a lovely day full of varied eats - just the way I like it! :o)

Okay bloggies - I have to head to bed now. Tomorrow is a long day full of work, packing, a bit of cleaning, and then a flight to Vancouver. I'll spend the weekend in Van with my girls and then head up to Whistler for a week long work conference. As a result, I don't know if I'll get a chance to write a post tomorrow but this time I'm for sure taking my laptop with me and blogging from the West Coast!

Enjoy your Friday bloggies!!!