Fri, Oct 14, 2022, An ice-cream date

 Dear Diary,

Yesterday ended up being a really good day. I met up with the French girl and we did the peddleboats finally! Yay. It was really fun. It was pretty sunny on the lake but we got to a few spots with a nice breeze. It was just as fun as I thought it would be. I wonder if I can pedal by myself next summer (<<yep, MERJ makes future plans now).

Then I walked to Ben and Jerry's. They had a dairy free flavor I'd already tried, and the cashier suggested one of the pre-packed pints. They had a bunch of new flavors I hadn't tried before. I didn't look at the ingredients for carageenan because I'm living the soft life. I figured I would only really need 1 scoop. Without getting too into the details, the price was probably about the same. I tried the bananas foster because I'd been wanting to make banana bread in my Seattle apartment and have some cozy mornings. I bought a waffle cone by itself and was off!

It was tasty and VERY sweet. Oh well. I hadn't had much solid food that day but luckily I didn't get too sick. Later that day I finally washed the grapes. I had enough energy to cut and slice the apples and orange and mango but thought it might be too wasteful. I bought quite a bit of grapes so I'll try to finish those this coming week and get to the apples and mango next week.

I only have 2 weeks left and I'm starting to feel the pinch! I didn't make it very far on my restaurant list at all!!

I probably could keep the apples cut for 2 weeks but I'm not sure about the mango. Oh well, it'll give me something to do for next weekend. 

I cooked one of my Marley and Martha meals. It was tasty and again I got to try more roasted veggies. I don't know that I'll ever bring myself to buy veggies to roast but I quite enjoy them in these meal kits.  These meals almost seem paleo. Not overly starchy, it's meat and veg. 

I didn't get to try Every Plate. But of the three so far I think it's Blue Apron, Marley, and Hello Fresh, in order of preference.  And I think the ideal timing is no sooner than every 2 weeks. Supplement with snacks, fruit, and bread from PCC. 

What else. I did the pedalos, got ice cream, cooked. Then met up with the French Girl again for game night. We played pool a bit while we waited for the next game to start. I won Machi Koro! Nice. In the end, these gamer games so far have been just as much fun as regular family night Hasbro game night games. 

It's funny at the end, I've stock piled quite a bit of food. Way too many sweets, but I'm calling it Halloween celebration all month!

I have a date at 2p today. Finally! 

I haven't figured out what I want to do this weekend, if anything. A lot of game nights on tap. I don't know if I'll get a hike in. I'm feeling less motivated to do it than when I first arrived.

If I go out tonight, I will have gone out every night this week! Wow. 

Oh I forgot about bowling league on Sunday, so maybe Saturday will be a rest day!