May 23, 2011

After a short run and an hour of yoga, I was ready for our cupcake crawl, similar to a pub crawl but a bit sweeter and a tad loopier.  We chose six different cupcake establishments around D.C. and walked from place to place, which was mostly designed to cancel out the onslaught of sugary calories we were ingesting.  We started at Hello Cupcake, then off to Red Velvet, then Cake Love, eating a couple bites of one cupcake from each.  We took a short reprieve in a coffee shop, Busboys and Poets, to allow the sugar to level off before proceeding to M Street for Sprinkles and baked & wired.  The pièce de résistance, or so we had hoped, was Georgetown Cupcake.  All in all, my favorite was the Unporked Elvis at baked & wired.  I felt my heart break into a million tiny pieces as I threw away most of the banana cake covered in peanut butter icing drizzled with chocolate syrup.  A successfully juxtaposed day, to say the least: miles of walking and miles of sugar.

May 22, 2011

I don't think I've ever had a more relaxing Sunday than today.  After a breakfast of cold pasta, my favorite, and a quick trip to Trader Joe's, I went back to sleep for a glorious three hour nap while Shannon started preparing dinner for our little gathering tonight.  So I don't come off as a horrible friend, I must say I didn't intend on sleeping for three hours and I was planning on helping Shannon get everything ready, but such was not in the cards once I curled up in my warm nest of blankets.  We spent the rest of the evening with friends, new and old, enjoying baked brie, a delicious salad, bread-crusted chicken for the omnivores, General Tso's-style popcorn tofu for the herbivores, and an amazing baked apple desert with ice cream.  After dinner, and helping clean up this time, I fell right back to sleep as if I hadn't ever awoken from my nap.  A perfectly relaxing Sunday.