Happy almost-weekend! I don't know about you, but it's been a crazy week over here. Rob and I are off to Virginia this morning to spend a few days in Roanoke before heading to Williamsburg for a wedding on Saturday. I'm so excited to see my family and spend a few days at the lake!

This afternoon I finally have a much-needed acupuncture appointment, and tomorrow I'm getting my hair cut. Lately I've been thinking that it might be time for a change. What do you guys think? Part of me wants to go lighter, part of me wants to go shorter, and still a big part of me wants to just keep doing what I'm doing and leave it alone. I tend to err on the side of just leaving it alone.

Haircut or not, before I head out of town I wanted to share a new-to-me service that rewards you for the online searching that we already do every day.

Bing Rewards allows you to earn rewards for using Bing as your search engine--it's easy as that! You can rack up gift cards to Starbucks, Amazon, and Sephora (among others). We are currently in the midst of making the most summer in Minneapolis (we're moving soon--more on that later!), so I've been doing a lot of Minneapolis parks, lakes, and restaurant searching online over the past few weeks. Bing has made it easy and even better, they're practically paying me to do it. I think you all know how I feel about coffee, and a Starbucks gift card in my wallet every now and then is nothing to complain about.

Bing has helped me discover some of my more recent favorite spots in the city, and I'm so excited to share more of them with you this summer! They even have a super-intuitive mobile app to make searching on the go easier.

So if you aren't using Bing Rewards yet, give them a try--sign up today and start earning rewards! What will you search for this summer?

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One of my favorite parts of summertime and living around here are the weekend markets. Minneapolis and St. Paul are chock full of awesome farmers markets, but one of my favorites is definitely Mill City Farmers Market. It's located in such an awesome part of Minneapolis, right on the river, and offers some really awesome breakfast and coffee as well as vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, honey, and other farmers market goods.

My friend Daci and I went last weekend and walked around a few times, checking everything out before deciding on breakfast tacos (she) and a goat cheese + veggie omelet (I). We got our food and sat facing the river, and then we were off to make the rounds again, this time buying some herbs, rhubarb, honey, lilacs, and stopping for a treat on our way out. It's such a fun place to spend a Saturday morning.

Mill City Farmers Market

704 S 2nd Street

Minneapolis, MN 55415

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Food 4/5

Service 5/5

Atmosphere 5/5

Prices & Specials 3/5

Paleo-Friendly 5/5

We spent a week at Excellence in Punta Cana for our honeymoon and had the best time! It was beautiful and relaxing and totally fun. We were so lazy and took full advantage of all the things an all-inclusive resort have to offer: breakfast in bed, room service, buffets, a swim-up bar! We even spent one afternoon at the spa. It was the perfect way to recover from a whirlwind wedding week.