Good morning and happy Friday from rainy Minneapolis! This week has been an odd one, as I finally finished a temp job that I thought would be much shorter than it ended up and have tried to get my blogging self back in order. There are clothes that need to be folded and boxes that need to be packed, and Rob got home late last night for the weekend. We are definitely in the middle of a transition, so I hope you'll bear with me as I try to balance moving and blogging (which I think I can probably do better than temping and blogging). I do have a couple really nice things lined up for the next few weeks here.

This weekend we'll be drinking coffee, watching our favorite shows, going out to eat, cooking in, and packing up some of our stuff. It's so weird to think that I live here and Rob is visiting--for so long before I moved it was the other way around. Life is strange that way, don't you think?

What will you be up to the next couple of days? I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Rob's parents came to visit us this weekend, so we spent a lot of time showing off our favorite Minneapolis (and St. Paul!) neighborhoods, farmers markets, restaurants, coffee shops, and lakes. And on Sunday, I got to spend an hour or two with my best friend Tina's sister, who is biking across the United States for MS. We went to Minnehaha Falls for a gorgeous walk around the park and waterfall. It's always so nice to see loved ones from home in Minneapolis.

It's been busy but quiet around here. Been getting back to working out, cooking at home, and trying so very hard to be in bed before 11:00 PM (not always as easy as it sounds, no matter how enticing).

But summer is here and I am so glad. It's been really nice spending so much time outside--on Friday after a dinner with friends, we walked around a park with sorbet and ice cream, and on Saturday I went to a CrossFit workout on a rooftop in a really cool Minneapolis neighborhood, followed by a delicious breakfast on a patio.

Rob's brother got in on Saturday afternoon and has been hanging out with us all weekend, which actually made me feel a little homesick on Sunday evening. But Minneapolis really is magical in the summer, and I'm happy to be here.