saturday was a perfect day.\u00a0 stars aligned – waters parted – birds singing kinda day.<\/p>\n
we headed out (after an early morning carpet cleaning appointment) to the farmer’s market in down town wake forest and will’s twice monthly haircut.\u00a0 the farmer’s market was brimming with farm fresh eggs, various jellies and jams, freshly baked breads, assorted types of goat cheeses, and some crafts.\u00a0 we trotted around the market and zoned in on a basil plant to add to our garden on the back deck and picked up a sampling of three types of goat cheese for our breakfast.<\/p>\n
we\u00a0mosied on\u00a0down to the coffee shop with our goat cheese in hand to score some bagels and coffee.\u00a0 we cozied up at the coffee shop and enjoyed the various flavors of curry, paprika garlic, and honey lavender goat cheese on our bagels.\u00a0 the walls of the coffee shop are lined this week with photographs from Kelly Newton.\u00a0 She has a very captivating series of portraits that really inspired me to print out my india photos and get that gallery hung up soon.\u00a0 one day i need to check into seeing what i need to do to get some prints of my own shown in the coffee shop.<\/p>\n
after breakfast we headed down to various stores and shopped around to see what was new.\u00a0 we purchased some candles on sale and then headed up to twisted vine for some wine tasting.\u00a0 we found a white wine we liked and got three more reds by the time we headed back down the stairs.\u00a0 after wine we headed to harvest moon, which is an eclectic store in an old house in wake forest.\u00a0 the exterior is coated with plants and we fell in love with the jasmine on the front porch.\u00a0 after shopping we headed to blue fins bistro to try out a bite for lunch.\u00a0 i was craving caprese salad but was too lazy to make my own, so i lucked out with a blt (which is the closest thing you can find to caprese salad in wf).\u00a0 on our way back out of heritage we stopped at wine 101 for yet another wine tasting of the day.\u00a0 we lucked out and learned a great deal about sustainable wine making and enjoyed the fruits of other people’s labor!<\/p>\n
after lunch we headed to the mall to pick up my new glasses.\u00a0 they are just a newer version of what sits on my face every day, but they have blue insets in them as opposed to the current version’s green.\u00a0 we got side tracked at\u00a0c&b and ended up with new glasses and plates since\u00a0so much stemware has been swept into the\u00a0trashcan in the past few weeks.\u00a0 those glasses were too\u00a0fragile!\u00a0 after\u00a0fighting the mall traffic we headed back\u00a0home so i could land some photos of the cherry trees at our front entrance to the neighborhood.\u00a0 they are the complete embodiment of spring.\u00a0 the bright pink flowers against the bluest blue sky really summed up the entire day.\u00a0 the weather was perfect and my allergies were not suffering too terribly just yet.\u00a0 we were foot loose and fancy free.\u00a0 when we got back home we created a cheers beverage to officially welcome in spring.\u00a0 we mixed up a made from scratch margarita with freshly squeezed lime and orange juice with some patron and cointreau.\u00a0 (skinny girl is on to something here.)<\/p>\n
after we watched the sunset we just lazily relaxed in our lounge chairs on the back deck while will attempted to read his new book and i browsed several magazines and catalogues.\u00a0 i found it quite funny that i would not shut up and kept pestering him about every half a page to tell him some story or show him something in the magazines\/catalogues.\u00a0 he played along like a good sport and humored me each time i broke his concentration.\u00a0 he is too perfectly adorable for putting up with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
at about 9pm we decided we were hungry and wanted to venture down town for some ribs at the pit.\u00a0 we drove all the way down there and found a 1.5 hour wait!\u00a0 their ribs are great, but we were starving!\u00a0 we decided to keep on driving and find something else.\u00a0 racking our brains we ended up at spize cafe.\u00a0 we’d wanted to try it for sometime and floated in right before they closed at 9:30.\u00a0 we were in love with this version of asian fondue, it was like two of our favorite things rolled into one!\u00a0 we really enjoyed all of the food, the service, and i fell in love with the utensil arsenal they give you to fight for your fondue!\u00a0 too fun!<\/p>\n
can’t wait to see what else this spring has in store!\u00a0 if it is at all like saturday was, bring it on!<\/p>\n\n\t\t