I had a sugary day on Saturday. In the morning, I met up with Marie and Cole at the Spectrum. While we were having some breakfast at The Corner Bakery, there was a baking demo going on in front of the ferris wheel. Fortunately for us, they were giving out a variety of samples with girls walking around with trays of treats. So, by the time we finished breakfast, Cole, Marie, and I had some brownie, chocolate cake, vanilla cake with strawberries, and cookies. Yum. With Marie having some shopping to do, I became the Baby Sitter Extraordinaire once again. It was a beautifully sunny day and fun hanging out with the little guy. We visited the puppies at the pet store and bought some little wind-up toys at the toy store. What fun!

Later in the evening, Johnny had his housewarming and he had a pretty good turnout. His new apartment is much bigger than the studio with two bedrooms and a pretty big livingroom. Knowing that we’d be having a late night, I packed up the X3 with dog food, the dog, toothrbrushes, and running shoes. We were basically going to have a little slumber party in Santa Monica. At the party there was plenty pizza and sugar of all kinds. I started with some tasty kanom krok and mango with sticky rice that Johnny brought from Wat Thai and then some almond jello. Then as if I didn’t have enough, David brought some ice cream and these tasty Dibs that I just HAD to try.

So it was a good thing that I brought my running shoes because I really needed to run it all off. We all got up and ran along the beach. Since my foot is still recovering, Koa and I only ran 3 miles while Johnny, Joy, and David ran 5-6 miles. It was nice to be outside and running again. In my first week back in my running shoes, I managed to run a total of 6 miles this week…not bad. If I take it easy with the mileage increase, I should be back on-track very soon.