Adventure Downtown

Yesterday I was about town! This city has a bad rap. Yesterday was a perfect example of the city is just people living together. I parked near Greektown, and well, the pictures tell the rest :)

And dinner at Fishbones :)

Return to Belle Isle Zoo

So my friend and I returned to the land of the lost, aka Belle Isle Zoo. The more I learn about the zoo the sadder I become. Turns out the zoo ran from 1895 untill 2002, which the mayor who shall not be named closed it, along with the aquarium. Stupid politics. Anywho, untill 2005 the few Europian Fallow Deer who roamed the island were housed there, untill they were moved to the little nature zoo built on the other side of the park due to the shitty fencing falling down that the famous mayor's good buddy build for a few million. (3 years of use eh?) Anyway, this day the gate was busted open, so we took a look around.

Nature is reclaiming it slowly. I feel in a few months I should go back and see the foliage growing :)

Happy Cinco De Mayo

This week went pretty good! I bought my groceries for about $12 at the farmers market, got my brakes fixed, YAY!! and am currently making chili :) My chili consists of mixed dry beans, breakfast sausage I got on sale (fresh from Eastern Market), half an onion, 2 cloves garlic, can of hunts tomatoes and basil, and lots of seasonings. Yay for having grown up with the hispanics, because I can tell by smell what makes it yummy :) plus I threw in some of the middle eastern seasonings to see what happens. East meets Southwest?

So the power and water have been out off and on while the building is getting ready to upgrade to solar, fix the boiler and everything else. Its annoying, especially when my toilet floods every time I try and shower.

I got to go Urban Spulunking the other day!! Soooooo much fun! We visited the abandoned zoo on Belle Isle. We didnt go to far as we wernt really prepared for this adventure, but it was interesting what we did see. Im DYING to go back!

Getting back on track

So I am on sparkpeople.com, and vow to loose the weight I gained back. Im tired of being that fat girl. yesterday started out good untill I gave into a pizza urge and doubled everything for the day :(. Oh well. Today is a new day!! So I am using their FREE work out videos, strength training and am off to do some cardio :). Hurrah. I dont have a scale, but I think Im around 170 judging on my last weigh in. Boo.

Its pretty outside, supposed to be sunny today and tomorrow. Strangely there are flood warnings an hour away in Monroe, and yesterday flood warnings just north of the city. But not even rain here. So Im gunna get out and explore and get some exercise, then head over to the DIA for more adventuring! Lets make it a great day

Neglect

So, an update since I have been neglecting this thing. I raised my starter, made some very bad bread then recently killed it. I also aquired a job as a waitress, was threatened, stolen from and not paid, so I quit. I now work for a pizza shop and while I make no money at least its fun! :)

The gerbil sidekick has a hamster ball and mastered it quickly. I will post a video soon of the amazing antics. There is nothing more entertaining then a gerbil in a ball a 2am!! Cooper rocks.

So Saturday I got to go hiking at Sterling Park in Monroe, Mi. We hiked for 6-7 miles in the warm sun (yay! Sun!!!) and ended the hike with a stroll along the sandy shores of lake Erie. My first Great Lake!! It was really beautiful, and I hope to see more of the great lakes and Michigan while I'm here.

Sunday was Easter. I cooked some left over corned beef in the crock pot, made an "Everything Salad" (thank you Rachel for the recipe!) and made Folar, Portuguese Easter Bread. Oh, and a no bake cheese cake (Thats not cooking, its stirring). I invited some of the girls from the building over and we ate, traded cosmetics, shoes and jewelery, and had a ball :) So things are looking up.

Yay for heritage!!