2. Last week, the Ladies Book Club had a special outing to Tuscan Wine Market in Arlington Heights. They hosted a book club with the author for "Pretty Baby" by Mary Kubica. Our book club had previously read her first book "The Good Girl". I really enjoyed both books and they were quick reads for me.
3. Prior to that, last weekend I was up in the Madison, Wisconsin, area to ride the IMWI bike course. I drove up on Saturday morning to meet up with Kelly and Brent and friends for one loop. After moving to the northwoods, the bike loop is only a 2 hour drive from our house. Over the winter, my legs have totally forgotten what hills are so this loop was a bit of a challenge, but I survived.
I wanted to be twinsies with Brent
4. The party didn't end there but continued with a pub crawl at various Mr. Brews Taphouse around the Madison area. Which probably would have been better if I didn't start out dehyrdated and then the bus for the "crawl" portion not arriving for 2+ hours at our first stop. You can probably guess my state by the end of the night. Actually I was in bed at 9 pm and yet it felt like 2 am.
Plus I demolished this burger
5. I usually take a treat to work for my birthday each year. This year I was a little delayed as my birthday was 2 weeks ago. But no one complained and everyone still ate the cupcakes. I made them from this recipe. The cupcakes turned out great and I received several compliments. Though I think next time instead of the peanut butter cream cheese frosting I would do a chocolate frosting to make it more like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
