It's beginning to look a lot like spring time in New England!

 Free Earthfest concert on the Hatchshell on Saturday featuring one of my fave bands from the late 90s Vertical Horizon!  I got a personal hello from the lead singer :)

Can't wait for the Mixfest, another free concert on the Hatchshell, in September!  Last year's bands included Andy Grammer, Gavin Degraw and Train!

Day trip to Portsmouth, NH with my brother Pat and my friends Dan MM and Megan.

NH restuarant week, kid playing a flute while solving a rubik's cube, lighthouse and fort!

Gotta love spring time in New England!

Mondays are not so bad...

I usually hate Sunday nights because they mark the end of precious weekends.  Though, I must say, Mondays aren't always so bad.  Sure a Monday usually starts in a rush with me realizing that I overslept again, but it ended well this week. 

Since my brother is in town, I made plans to take him to the Asgard's, an Irish bar in Central Sq. I've been going to the Asgard's since my senior year.  That's also when the Asgard's started having 10 cents wings on Mondays.  It was such a good comfort to Mondays.

After MIT, I started going to the Asgard's almost every Monday with my friend Giorgio and later on our friends joined in as well.  It was the thing for us.  We stopped as people moved further away and got busy.  It was just refreshing to go again.  Seeing that apparently the Asgard's is one of the hang-out places for LGO's and that my new apartment is literally a 5-min walk from there, I'm sure I'll be starting Monday wings nights back up again.  And ofcourse wings nights couldn't end without ice cream from Tocanini's (across the street).  My fave favor is goat cheese brownie; you should try it.

Monday was also a good day because it was the first time I swam in a very long time.  I went to the MIT Z-center, an amazing gym at MIT, and did 1 mile of laps continuously.  It made me feel much better about my triathlon which is happening in a weeks.  My pace was 50% slower than my high school swim team days, but that's not bad considering I have not swum at all.

The rest of the week turned out to be pretty awesome too. I got to see Julie and Liz and introduced them to each other  on Wednesday. We were supposed to go to Citysports' Beach Ready Cardio outdoor workout in Harvard Sq but bailed because of the slight rain; we ended up going to Bertucci's and stuffed our faces with amazing rolls instead.  Afterwards, I did a 5 mi run outside instead. It was around 8:15pm when I started and it had just stopped raining, so it was dark, a bit humid, and lots of bugs.  I don't regret running, but I wish I had done it earlier in the day.  For those of you in Boston, Citysports has that free class every Wednesday evening for the rest of the month if you want to sign up: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6447399345

On Thursday my brother and I went to the north end for some desserts.  We had my fave tiramisu at Caffee Vittoria next to Mike's Pastry.  If you haven't visited it, I would really encourage you to.  You won't regret it.

Parents visit weekend

This past weekend was sorta cloudy and not very pretty.  It sucked that it happened over the weekend, but considering the sunny high 60's weather we just had all week, I couldn't really complain.

My parents visited again from Cooperstown, NY.  They had just visited the week before when they drove here with my brother who's staying with me for 3 weeks while he is working as a visiting medical resident at Tufts Medical Center.  As both of their kids are in Boston, they just couldn't stay away! As many of you are familiar with, parents visit usually means food tasting! 

How's the food situation in Boston area?  This may cross your mind if you're a foodie considering moving to town for school or work.

Here is an example of my Saturday meals with the parents:

Morning: at Flour Bakery right on Mass ave next to MIT.  Salmon bagel and carrot cake!  Flour is definitely a treat for MIT students.  Its sticky buns are famous, but I would also encourage you to try one of my favorite meals of all time: roasted lamb sandwich, raspberry crumb bar and raspberry seltzer.

Pastries at Flour

 Afternoon: an hour drive to Kittery, Maine for lobster and outlet shopping.  I had yummy lobster and coconut lime cheesecake at Robert's Maine Grill Restaurant.

Family visit to Maine

Evening: Thai food at Pad Thai Cafe on Boylston St in  Boston and tiramisu for my mom's and brother's birthdays from Finale in Harvard Sq.

LGOs '15 on their way to Boston, you're in for a treat with your food options!

Well, what do Bostonians do to keep the weight off with all these yummy things? The Charles River is such a gift to Boston.  I've run and biked there more than 100 times, yet its beauty still manages to take my breathe away every time!  Aside from that, there also seems to be a big yoga community here, a lot of which are free.  This week, my yoga buddy Julia and I went to O2 yoga open house for power yoga and arm balance classes for free on Saturday, and we tried aerial yoga for the first time on Sunday at South Boston Yoga for free!  As the blog progresses, I may annouce free workout classes ahead of time if people want to know and join!

Julia and I at Aerial Yoga