at home getaway

After treating myself to a glorious few days with my best girlfriends, I'm finding myself searching for more ways to keep this calm and collected feeling without having to leave the city or spend a lot of cash! I came across this "4-Day Spa Getaway at Home" article at Martha Stewart - some wonderful, relaxing ideas!

You can also condense this 4-Day routine into 2 days, if you skip a few steps and choose your favourites instead. And why not plan it for when the guys are out of town so we can stay over at someone's place? Maybe even sleep over outdoors, breathing in the fresh air all night. There's nothing better than experiencing this with your buds, so while you're preparing the healthy food or massaging your own face with home-made serum, you can catch up on the latest gossip and build more on the friendships you already have.

Maybe I can incorporate this into my extra-outdoor-seating building party...or into my outdoor-planter-painting party...mix a little work into the relaxation. hee hee Still SO fun of course!

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What a lovely day I just had with my dearest friend, Kristi!! My mind and body feel so relaxed and happy right now, I tend to forget that you can't just keep going, that you need to rejuvenate every now and then. Today was definitely one of those days, and in a very productive way!

We started off with hot yoga at the Bodhi Tree. My all-time favourite yoga destination, and even more fun when you share the whole experience with a close friend who's into it too. I've never sweat SO much in a yoga class - the slimy kind of sweat - this one was somehow much more humid, but I love how stretchy the heat can make you if you let it. An hour and a half of breathing and stretching and twisting does wonders for your entire being - your mind, body, soul, innards. Oh yes...GOOD! (Kristi, we really should try to do this every Sunday)

Afterwards we treated ourselves to some fruity, healthy shakes. Delicious and cold, which I continued to drink during my shower. Acai berry shakes are amazing!! We then snacked on freshly home-made chili (thanks Cam!) with loads of cheese on top (super healthy...right? Just make believe and it will be...)

When our tummy's were full and happy, we took a nice walk with her dogs (Roxy and Baxter...see below) to Starbucks where we enjoyed warm beverages in the crisp outdoors and caught up. I must say, I don't remember ever just sitting in chilly weather like that, drinking something warm and delicious - a London Fog Latte to be specific. It was the BEST! I could use more fresh air. And definitely more face time with my bud (we must do more summer-time planning!). Here's an OLD puppy picture of one of those dogs (of which one you ask? Good question), along with a more 'recent' one of me making a face at Roxy. More recent being...last fall sometime - make that early fall, it was still warm.


It was a wonderfully, quiet day. I promised myself that we'd have more days like this. And this makes myself very happy.