Sunday morning we left Lancaster, Pennsylvania and headed to my friend Heather’s house in Massachusetts. The original plan was for The Girl to run 20 miles with her friend but an unexpected knee injury {her friend} squashed those plans. The Girl is training for a marathon and so we needed to stick to her running program and find a place for her to run by herself.
But where in the heck do you find a place to run 20 miles at the last minute when you don’t know the area well? We quickly pulled up google maps from PA to MA and 3 loops around Central Park in NYC seemed like the best option.
So while The Girl ran, I checked out the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
IT.WAS.AWESOME. I mostly hung out in the American Collection section looking at pieces of furniture and folk art.
The samplers and shaker pieces were my favorite. I only wished the museum had more out on display.
Isn’t this Tiffany lamp gorgeous? Can you imagine the skills needed to make one of those? Anyone know the value on a real Tiffany lamp these days?
After we were done in NYC, we headed north through Connecticut with only one destination in mind…
Sift Bake Shop in the lovely seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut. Kathie S. recently left a comment on the blog and said we needed to try out the Sift Bake Shop…. IT.WAS.AMAZING.
I’ll do a proper post on the bakery later but let me just tell you not only did they have amazing pastries and bread, but they also had some seriously delicious corned beef sliders with sauerkraut.
And yes, it’s only been a few days and my pants are totally tight already. 
We rolled into Heather’s around 7pm and spent the next 3 hours sitting around her kitchen table talking the night away.
A museum, good food and hanging out with friends. What more could you ask for?
Vacations are RAD.
Peace Out Girl Scouts… I’ll check in tomorrow.
~Mavis
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Hitting the gym is awesome. Getting exercise is awesome. Staying fit is awesome. What’s not awesome? Stinky gym clothes. Gag. Of course they’re going to be gross after you’ve been sweating non-stop for an hour or so. They contain all sorts of bacteria, all sorts of bodily fluid. And they typically are crazy smelly. So how do you fix that when a regular old wash won’t do?
We used that pork to make the most tasty Cubano paninis. You can adjust your ingredients to your liking, but we used:
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