Weekend Shenanigans!

For some reason I was SO tired this entire weekend, but it was great and full of fun stuff!  After working until 7 or 8 all week, I crashed pretty early on Friday night.  I've been sleeping terribly ever since we got home from vacation and waking up at the crack of dawn!  I was up way too early on Saturday, but I was really excited for the MN Blogger yoga class that I was teaching!

It was so. much. fun.  to meet those of you who were there.  THANK YOU so much for coming and letting me lead you through a yoga class.  I have to admit that I was nervous to meet you all and teach a class at the same time, but you are all so sweet and I am so excited to get to know you all better.  I was trying to explain to my husband how great you ladies are, and it just seems so funny that we really don't know each other in person well at all, but I already feel like we are good friends. I love it!

You all did great in the class!  Really, so many beautiful yogis out there!  I can't wait to do this again, hopefully outside in the warm sun!

I took these pictures straight from Kelly's post on the MN Blogger website, head on over there to check out her post about the class!

Pictured left to right: Me, Zhenya, Kelly, Melissa, Diana, Britt, Dawn, Sarah

On Saturday afternoon, Mark and I went out with a mission to find some new patio furniture.  We didn't buy anything yet, but I am pretty sure we know what we want!  We decided to watch a movie Saturday night and ended up watching The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.  It was cute, not a great movie by any means, but it was a good movie to relax on the couch with!  I tried to go to bed at 10 since I knew I had to be up early the next day.  I woke up and thought it was morning...but it was only 11:50!  Don't you hate it when that happens?? I couldn't go back to sleep until like 3!  Ugh!

On Sunday, I was up bright and early for the Race for the Cure!  I love this race, it was my very first 5k ever in 2009, and it still just has such great energy!  My grandma died of breast cancer when I was a baby, and my aunt was diagnosed with it a really long time ago.  She is in remission now, thankfully! My mom and sister both did the race too, and it was the first 5k either of them had done!  It was really fun, but it was freezing out!  

After the run, we all collected our husbands and went out to eat at the Lion's Tap!  If you live in Minneapolis and haven't been there- go!  Best burgers ever.  It reminds me of my childhood and hasn't changed one bit in the last 20 years, which is a good thing!

I spent the rest of the day being lazy and trying to nap a little bit.  Let's hope I can get back on a normal sleeping schedule soon, I hate being lazy and tired all day!  I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Linking up with Sami!

Vacation Recap Days 4-5: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany!

After our time in Ireland ended, we boarded a flight from Dublin to Memmingen (Munich West.)  We flew RyanAir and let me tell you, it was an experience!  The seats were not assigned, so it was kind of like a mad scramble trying to get seats together.  The flight attendants walked up and down the aisles for the entire flight selling random stuff, like sandwiches, magazines, lottery tickets...you name it, they probably had it.

We landed in Germany, picked up our rental car, and headed for Garmisch-Partenkirchen!  The drive was beautiful as we got close to the Alps, weaving in and out of Austria on the way.

We got to our hotel and were SO pleasantly surprised by it!  It was the cutest place ever, seriously stay at Reindl's Partenkirchner Hof if you ever are in that area!

Once we were all checked in and settled, we went for a walk around the town and had a lovely German dinner.  It was SO nice there and it was awesome to be able to sit outside and the enjoy our meal.  We then bought a bottle of wine and went back to our hotel to enjoy it on our balcony!

The next day was SO much fun!  We drove to Neuschwanstein Castle and took our time driving the scenic route through Oberammergau.

Neuschwanstein Castle was sooo cool!  First of all, it is set above one of the most gorgeous lakes I've ever seen, and over looks another amazing castle!

Unfortunately, no pictures are allowed inside the castle, which is too bad because it was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen!  Each room was so ornate and over the top.  I can't even fathom how someone designed and built it!

We drove to the Zugspitz after seeing the castle, which is the tallest mountain in Germany.  Unfortunately, the lift to go to the top was being repaired and we couldn't go up, but the scenery was amazing nevertheless!

Once back in Garmisch, we went out for probably the best meal of our trip!  We were both SO stuffed afterward, but it was totally worth it!  Mark and a beef and potato hash with a fried egg and bacon, and I had spaetzle! It was amazing!  We were able to sit outside on a cute patio in the middle of town, it was so lovely!

That night we relaxed at the hotel and planned out our next day!  Since we didn't make it up the Zugspitz, we found another gondola to ride up in our town and planned that for the next morning.  Come back tomorrow to read about that ride and our trip to a monastery that brews abbey ale!

Vacation Recap Day 3: Dublin

We had a great time in Dublin!  We only spent 1 day there, but we were still able to see what we wanted to see.  As soon as we got into town, we headed out to walk around the city.  We stopped at a cute cafe for lunch and then walked to Trinity College to see the Book of Kells.  The Book of Kells is one of the oldest manuscripts of the 4 gospels, written circa 800.  It is a really beautiful exhibit and so interesting.  We also got to see the old library at Trinity College, which totally felt like being at Hogwarts!

After Trinity College, we walked to the Guinness Storehouse for a tour and some beer tasting.  It was pretty cool.  I am not really a huge Guinness fan, but Mark swears that it was 100 times better in Ireland than it is here!  Since I rarely drink it over here, I will take his word for it. The storehouse was interested and full of information.  The best part obviously was the free pint, which was given to us in the "Skybar" which is on the top story and is all windows!

We did a little more sight seeing around the city before heading to The Temple Bar, where we were pleasantly surprised with a sunny courtyard and live music!  What a cool place!

For dinner that night, we headed out to a cool Irish Pub.  There was a soccer match on between Bayern and Barcelona, which was being played in Munich- so that was cool to see!  The pub was totally PACKED with people watching the game and it was pretty fun to be in the middle of it!  We took another little stroll through the city before heading back to our hotel to rest up for our early flight the next morning!

We <3 Dublin!

Its our 2 year anniversary!!

Mark and I have been married for 2 years today!  I can't believe it has already been 2 whole years!  We pretty much already celebrated this by going to Europe, but we will still have some champagne (and dessert!) tonight to mark the occasion!  I didn't have this blog back when we got married, so I haven't shared many details of that special day yet.  Well, you are in for a treat today because I'm taking a walk down memory lane and reminiscing about May 7th, 2011!

First of all, here is our wedding video.  I love this video, our videographer (John Hoel) captured each moment perfectly!

And now is a little review of our wedding:

May 6th- Groom's Dinner at Lord Fletcher's

Getting Ready for the Big Day!

First Look

Ceremony: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Edina MN.

Wedding Party & Family

 Reception!  Interlachen Country Club in Edina, MN.

It was the best day ever! Sometimes I wish I could go back to that day and do it all over again!  Here's to 2 years down, 100 more to go!

(All photos taken by the amazing and talented Andrew Vick)