Today is my first “official” week back to classes after a
week and a half off thanks to Jewish holidays. I have to admit I am looking
forward to my classes this semester. My finance professor seems pretty cool and
laid back and he is actually an established professional in a career which I’ve
been thinking about pursuing post MBA so I’m excited to pick his brain on that.
I am also taking a “feminist-type” of course (I’m pretty sure that’s not the
point of the class but so far feels like it) about women and entrepreneurship.
I’ll be sure to share a few of the things I learn.
Anyways, so yesterday I went on a run with a friend. He
is all of a sudden up for running and increasing his mileage stamina and so we
decided to challenge ourselves with the hilly running tracks of central park
and boy did we run!
After a 5+ miles (which included about ¼ miles of heavy
sprinting) he decided it was time to do push ups, pulls ups, sit ups, mountain
climbers—we even did jumping jacks (that was my contribution, don’t act
surprised). I was a little flabbergasted considering that when I run (especially
more than 3 miles) I feel that’s more than enough workout and no additional
“extra-curricular(s)” are needed. However, I suppose he felt it was necessary
to finish “strong” and so, we did. I can’t lie—it was a great work out all in
all.
After out run + additional random strength training we decided
to go for some frozen yogurt over at pink berry. Actually, he said ice cream
and I looked at him like “who eats ice cream anymore?” And so, I suggested
frozen yogurt @ Pink Berry. I had never been to one in my life so I was excited
to try it out:
I forgot to mention this but a few weeks back while my
cousin from Tampa was visiting we went to Red Mango after a Sunday afternoon of
“tourist-activities”:
So, now that I have tried both places, what’s my verdict?
Well, in all honestly, Red Mango wins hands down. Why?
-I
get to choose my own toppings and pile them up myself
-I
get to pull the handle of the frozen yogurt myself (and try different flavors
before I commit to one in the process without having to annoy any of the
employees)
-The
flavors are just sweeter/taste better and the yogurt is smoother (in my
personal opinion)—at pink berry I got the original “tart/sweet” flavor and it
was geared more towards tart.
Although the pink berry was also delicious I didn’t like the fact that the workers add in the toppings for me. Hey—if I want to try every topping available I don’t want to be judged. So, let me add my own stuff thank you very much. Also, the location we went to was super small and really busy! I felt a little claustrophobic in there.
After I got home that evening I remembered I had some fruit to cut up before it went bad. And so, I spent about 20 minutes cutting up melon and making myself fruit salads for the week. Mission accomplished:
One of the highlights of my weekend was welcoming back my
little cousin whom was on vacation with her family in the Dominican Republic. I
was so happy to see her again! She is such a happy/gorgeous baby although she
was half asleep in this photo:
Love. Her. And her big brother. They melt my heart.
And that’s all folks. Thanks for reading! Cheers to a
great week.
Tell me, Have you tried pink berry and/or red mango
before? What was the highlight of your weekend?
