Martha’s Vineyard 2012: Lilly & Lobster

Greetings from Martha’s Vineyard!

I’m on my yearly trip over to the island with my best friend and her parents.  I’m a lucky girl, they keep adopting me year after year for this trip ;)

Our trip started off as usual with a drive down to Woods Hole to hop on the Steamship over to Vineyard Haven.

Think we packed enough??  This was my stuff and Jocy’s stuff…me for 4 days, her for a week.

We thought the pile was pretty entertaining. 

Yesterday morning I decided to hit up the local Crossfit Box here on island…

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I’m glad I went!  It was a pretty small gym, but everyone was really nice and I had a great workout to kick off my little vacation.

After a good warm-up consisting of sit-ups, over-head squats with PVC pipes, push-ups, and burpees we did this WOD:

• 800M run
• 30 ground-to-overhead (I did clean and jerks with 65lb)
• 30 burpees

It was a nice sweaty workout and I was back to the house less than 1 hour later!

Then after getting ready we decided it was lunch time.  We hit up one of our FAVORITE spots in Edgartown: The Atlantic.

I know I’ve said this before, but Jocy has got to be my favorite eating buddy because 99% of the time we love the same things and we both love sharing!

We split the tomato bisque

(they even pre-portioned it out into individual bowls for us)

and it comes with a mini grilled cheese with multiple types of cheese in there…including goat.

It’s just heaven

Somehow this grilled cheese and tomato soup has become probably become one of our Top 3 favorite meals on the island!

Then this happened….

I texted that picture to Brian…he said I wasn’t allowed in that store.

But he didn’t say anything about this store…

I only have 1 Lilly dress, from many years ago, and I wasn’t planning on it, but we decided to try stuff on :)    

And I did buy one….any guesses???

 

If I could have purchased them all I would have…

 

Ok I’ll tell you…the Navy one in the middle!  I was deciding between the Navy one and the one with the Yellow top.  The yellow was more comfortable, but the Navy fit like a glove and I could probably get more use out of it!  I was worried about the low back (see bottom right corner) but the dress is actually tight enough that I could go sans bra!  Woo hoo!  The dress is actually an Emma Graham dress, I got it at In the Pink which usually sells all Lilly Pulitzer stuff but they had a few of these too…the pink one I tried on (also LOVED that one) was also Emma Graham!

The day concluded with purchasing some delightful cheese, olives, and salami from here:

And finally this beast for dinner…

Jumbo lobsters were on sale at the Edgartown Seafood Market.  Joc and I treated her parents (and us) to a nice 5 pounder!!  We had it cooked and then her and I took all the meat out.  We were going to have hot lobster rolls.

That would be the lobster next to a standard point and shoot. 

 

Mmmm Mr. Lobster you were delicious.  I was a little worried because I have heard larger lobsters can have tougher meat, but not this one!  Tender and flavorful!  We had a nice big salad and I had a pile of lobster meat.  We feasted :)

Time to head to the beach!  Have a lovely day!!

Recycle Studio: Spinning off my vacation

As much as I love traveling and going on vacations, I am almost always ready to come home at the end!  Especially when I’ve been away from Brian and Bromley for 6 days!!  I missed my boys!

I arrived home Friday night around 11pm, and of course went to bed shortly there after. 

First thing I did Saturday morning?  A Spin Class! 

Not just any spinning though.  This was supposed to be a special Boston Bloggers Rerock Ride at Recycle Studio in Boston’s South End, taught by another fellow Boston Blogger: Katie! 

However, not enough bloggers so she combined it with their Saturday cash class which is a $15 class where you can stop in, pay cash at the desk, and hop on a bike for a fun musically-themed 45min spin session!

I have only taken maybe 2 spin classes ever, and that was over 3 years ago.  Actually, I think the last time was the same night I got engaged :)

I digress… my point was, it had been a long time and actually I never cared much for spin at those two classes.

Well, I LOVED this class!  The music was awesome, which is something that can make it or break it for me.  She did songs for popular movies and we had to guess the movie! 

Not cheesy soundtracks, but more fun high-energy rock songs from movies like: Dazed and Confused, Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds, Wayne's World, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Footloose, Empire Records…etc, there were more but I can’t remember them all!

45 minutes flew by and I was dripping with sweat.  It was a great workout! 

They have a cute storefront right on Tremont Street in the South End of Boston, and the actual spinning room is down stairs. 

Katie told me she will try to schedule another Blogger class in the fall…hopefully there' will be a better turn out!  I’m talking to YOU fellow Boston bloggers!! 

I saw that email list, I know who you are ;)   Your loss anyways, because it was a blast!

What I’m really hoping though, is that this spin class counteracts another Blogger event this weekend:  Boston Brunchers!

I’m off to a lovely brunch at Avenue One at the Hyatt downtown with a great group of Boston Bloggers!  Not that I need a huge brunch post-vacation, but I couldn’t turn it down either :)

Now I leave you with a few more photos from my vacation on Martha’s Vineyard! 

Cute Vineyard dogs!  Doesn’t the one below look like a dark version of Bromley??? 

    

Happy Sunday friends!

Blueberry Scuffins and Vacation

Greetings from Martha’s Vineyard!!

I’m on my yearly getaway with my best friend and her family on the beautiful island that is Martha’s Vineyard.

Yes, we are at a house with wi-fi, but my urge to blog isn’t quite where it should be.  That said, there has been no shortage of blog-worthy food eaten so far!

Why do some foods taste SO much better on vacation??

Nothing special here, but these Garden Herb Triscuits with brie really hit the spot when we first arrived at the house after getting off the ferry.

A bowl full of fresh cherries in the fridge for snacking

Yes, you can toast a GIANT marshmallow over a gas grill

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Grilled chicken & veggies, cereal with raspberries, and even Skinnygirl Margaritas all taste better on the Vineyard vacation.

Found a new bakery

with delicious “power cookies” and almond croissants

Hit the beach… obviously

It’s been beautiful here and thoroughly relaxing!

Now for the Scuffins that you may be looking for.

Well here they are:

Lemon and blueberry

Not quite as dry and heavy as a scone

Definitely not a muffin

Just a delicious healthy breakfast treat!       

And you will find my recipe HERE!  It’s my first/latest article as a Boston Healthy Foods Examiner! 

I just started contributing to examiner.com…I’m hoping to gain a little more experience writing and thought it would be perfect to focus on healthy foods! 

I’ll add this one to my recipe page soon! 

What “everyday” foods do you enjoy that much more on vacation??