Celebrations at the Melting Pot

Tonight Neal, Liz, Matt and I went to the Melting Pot to celebrate Liz’s and my birthday, Neal’s and my engagement, and Matt’s return to DC.

Liz, Matt, and Eric (the buffalo stand in)

It was so nice to have a dinner date with the gang, as Matt has been out of town on business for the past 5 weeks.  We started dinner with the Wisconsin Cheese Trio fondue.

We then had a wonderful main course (herb chicken, terriaki steak, filet mignon, Tuna, and shrimp).

We also enjoyed a few cocktails!!

For dessert we had a WONDERFUL dark chocolate fondue with marshmallow and oreos.

It was great catching up, making plans for the winter months, and talking about Eric’s return to DC in February.

Liz can’t wait to have her man back!! We all miss Eric a lot!

Tonight’s dinner was the perfect way to end the weekend and a great way to start the week.  This week is going to be REALLY busy, but I’m looking forward to getting a lot of stuff done at work, continuing our wedding planning, and cranking out a LOT of graduate work!

Weekly Plan: October 24-30

	Workout	Breakfast	Lunch	Snack	Dinner	Plans
Monday	Off	1 egg, 1 slice turkey bacon, on sandwich thin, banana	Veggie patty on sandwich thin, small salad	Pumpkin fluff, honeycrisp apple	Dinner at Mama Ayesha’s	Dinner with Becky
Tuesday	Elliptical and Weight Lifting	Multigrain cheerios, banana	Lunch with Melanie	Pumpkin fluff, apple pear	Turkey tacos	The Biggest Loser
Wednesday	3 mile run	1 egg, 1 slice turkey bacon, slice of tomato on English muffin	Leftover turkey taco meat on salad	Pumpkin fluff, apple pear	Dinner at Cosi	Dinner with Katy and graduate work
Thursday	Elliptical and Weight Lifting	Multigrain cheerios, banana	Leftover turkey taco meat on salad	Pumpkin fluff, apple pear	Food tasting with caterer	Graduate Work
Friday	30 min run	1 egg, 1 slice turkey bacon, slice of tomato on English muffin	Leftover turkey taco meat on salad	Pumpkin fluff, apple pear	Salad @ home	Wedding Planning with Neal — visiting venue #4
Saturday	6 mile run	Oatmeal, sunflower butter, banana	Smoothie and wrap from Tropical Smoothie (post run tradition)	?	Dinner at Neal’s (turkey or chicken burgers)	Long run and lots of graduate work
Sunday	Off	Multigrain cheerios, banana	?	?	?	Wedding Expo at one of our venue options and lots of graduate work

This week, my goal is to continue my Get-in-Shape Checklist and to accomplish a lot on my to do list.  I am also having a GIVEAWAY on Tuesday… so stay tune for that!

Have an amazing Monday and a great start to the week!  What are your goals for this week?