CHBP!

Just a few more weeks of freedom until our weekends are consumed with home ownership! This weekend we mosied up the hill to the Capital Hill Block Party. It's actually an all weekend long festival of bands on several different stages in the Capital Hill area of Seattle. We just got tickets for Saturday since that's when most of the bands we wanted to see were playing and because it was Aimee's birthday, so we got to celebrate all day with her! We met up with a group of people just as one band was finishing up, so we all headed into a nearby bar for some drinks and to make Aimee wear their awesome birthday hat. The bar is called Unicorn and is themed like a circus. We hung out there for a while until the next band we wanted to see were up and we headed down the street for that.

The rest of the night we were in and out of bars and checking out all the good music and other booths. I also finally got to try Cupcake Royale's seasonal strawberry cupcake...it was like a dream come true. It was just a white cake with strawberry butter cream frosting, but oh my word the frosting was to die for...it was bursting with strawberry deliciousness. I am definitely going to have to try to figure out their secret for that one...sooooo good.

The final band of the night was the headliner, which we really wanted to see but apparently so did EVERYONE else, so it was super packed. After being pushed and dragged around for about half an hour we moved to the back of the crowd for a little while then ended up just heading home. Moral of the story; good music, good food, good fun, but lots and lots of people and probably just as fun hanging out outside of the block party rather than dealing with the crowd inside.

Sunday afternoon we spent getting ideas and pricing out some things for our upcoming house renovations. The big things is really going to be the kitchen, but it's going to be amazing! I can't wait to throw on a pair of overalls and get back into construction mode. It's been far too long.

In other news, I'm almost finished reading Born To Run that talks a lot about minimalist running and ancient super foods for healthy living and such so I've been trying out a lot of their ideas. I got a sweet new pair of running shoes that I'm now pretty obsessed with. They feel like running in slippers which is awesome. I'm not sure how I feel about transitioning to the 5 finger shoes, but I'm trying to slowly get into the idea of barefoot running. I've also started trying a lot of recipes with chia seeds which are supposed to be the ancient miracle food that the helps promote energy. I'm giving it a try, but I think what would really promote more energy in me would be to get more than 6 hours of sleep...ever. Either way, it's a good book and fun things to try to get nice and healthy!