Sorry - this week has been another week of scarce blog posts. I don't think it was on purpose.... although I'm not sure what I was doing that would have gotten in the way of me blogging. Anywhoooo... I hope you're all having a great weekend!!
OH MY GOD!!
I forgot to tell you!!!!
I'm OFFICIALLY going back to school!!!! I KNOW!!!!!! I'm FREAKING out (you can tell by all of the capital letters and exclamation marks I'm using!!!!) because I've been out of school for a good 4ish years now. I'm seriously going back FULL TIME starting in January!! I got accepted to George Brown College for their 3-year Business Administration Marketing program, which has a 1-year co-op program at the end. I'm so excited you guys!!!!!!!! I applied a while ago, but obviously didn't want to say anything until I knew it was official. I was checking the Ontario Colleges website every single day for the past month and on Wednesday I found out the great news!!! My campus is so close to me too, it's about 2 blocks north and a good hike east, but not not walkable, although I'll probably invest in my student discounted TTC pass now :). I'm officially going to be a "downtown snob" hahaha. Omg I can't wait. SO YES that is my fantastic news of the week!!!
Last night I got invited out by Davida from The Health Maven to wine and dine with 6 other fellow foodie bloggers, and it was so much fun!! I have to admit a few things....
1. I didn't read through the emails in that much depth, I just knew the date and the place of where I needed to go.
2. I didn't really know the blogs of many of the girls there (but I do now and they're so cute!!!)
So to start, I was supposed to be there at 7. I got there at like 7:15 because I passed the place so many times. It was called Grasslands, and they have absolutely ZERO signage outside of their restaurant... just their street number above the door. Once I finally found it, I was so flustered and hot and disgusting I'm sure the ladies all thought I was insane. The ladies that were in attendance were:
Davida from The Healthy Maven
Sam from Better With Sprinkles
Suzanne from Hello Veggy
Chelsea from Chelsea's Healthy Kitchen
Christine from Gotta Eat Green
Amy from The Little Honey Bee
Gabby from The Veggie Nook
And me!
By the time I had got there they had all had a chance to figure out what they wanted, however the first thing I wanted was a cocktail so I ordered a Lychee Martini, and so did Sam... thank god lol.
Ok, now the funny part is that I ordered Crusted Chicken and it came with a ton of fun things on the side. After I ordered was when I realized that the restaurant was a vegan restaurant and the chicken I ordered was definitely not going to be chicken lol. I was a bit nervous, but it seemed like a decent restaurant and what I ordered was their most popular item on the menu, so it couldn't be THAT bad!
It was SO FLIPPING GOOD!!!!
It came with sweet potatoes, asparagus, mushrooms, mushroom gravy, yams, and mango salsa... it was definitely the best vegan meal I've ever had in my life. It was awesome to be around other bloggers, because we all understood when we ALL busted out cameras to take pictures of our food!
Thanks to Suzanne who had the idea to have the waiter take a picture of us doing this!! Haha, it's such an amazing shot and totally captures what we do perfectly. Here's a good, normal group shot.
Turned out nicely huh??
It was definitely an amazing experience to meet all of these great gals!! They're all so passionate about healthy living and healthy food. Gabby is current doing her Holistic Nutrition designation, while I'm pretty sure Amy is starting the Energy Exchange Yoga program soon!! Chelsea is doing an internship to become a Dietitian, Davida recently started a baking class, Suzanne is in nursing school, Christine is getting married soon, Sam lives in London and is doing her Masters and I'm going back to school SOON! Haha. Thanks for hosting us Grasslands!! Our waiter, Chris, was super nice and loved helping us take these photos! Thanks to you ladies for a great night out!!! Sorry I showed up late... I swear I'll be early and not sweaty next time we meet up! :)
Q: Where is your favorite Vegan restaurant? What's your favorite thing on the menu?