West side Best side, reformer week

Hello Again!

I said I would post and here I am posting. I hope everyone's had a good week. My week was crazy so much happened, a co worker got a better show and left, I got a free latte from the cute barista but he didn't write his number on the cup, talk about your mixed signals anyways that's another story for another day. I only had one misstep on my healthy eating track, I fell asleep Saturday when I was supposed to be going to the grocery store and when I woke up the store was closed and I was hungry so I went to Wendy's and got a burger. While it wasn't the worst thing I could do but it did make me ill and it was a moment of weakness and probably not the last.

But now for the good I ate the Changes Orange Chicken I made and it was delicious here's a photo of it at my desk.

Also today I went for hike with two of my good friends since I didn't ask if I could mention them in this blog so lets call them K and D. We went to the Culver City Nature Trail I found this trail about a month ago and its a great short little hike up a wooden path which makes it wheelchair and stroller friendly the total path is .25 miles one way so one circuit is only half a mile but you can go up and down as many times as you want. it's located at of Jefferson and Duquesne. There is a parking lot and roadside parking all along the road on the way up. 

 Doggie paw prints on the side walk lead to the dog park which is to the right of the trail

  Parking lot and beginning of the trail

                                                    Sign at the start of the trail, also I like taking photos of signs

                                     View of cross street  and driving entrance from halfway up the trail

                                        View of the wooden trail.

                                              Close up of the trail. its all wooden with rails

                                             Top of the trail there's a baseball field today there was a soccer sign up

                                         Pictures of the  soccer sign up

                                          Stairs at the top across the parking lot, my goal is climb them this week

                                          The park at the bottom of the nature trail it has grills and a basketball court

                                              Fulcrum's climbing  area along the trail.

                                          Beginning of the trail  in the evening there are cats that gather.
I really like this trail because its a great reformer trail if you are hurting or out of shape or both it's low incline and low impact there are places to stop along the way (they are called scenic look out points so you don't have to feel bad that you need a break just look out at beautiful downtown Culver City). At the top there are benches  and a park area you can stretch or rest or if you're ambitious you can try to do the stairs across the way. After the trail we went to brunch at a place called Akasha  I had delicious omelette and coffee the coffee cups were soo cute I took a photo.

                                         Cute coffee cups.

                                            Omelette with a salad.

So now you have two new things to try on the Westside a great hike and a great Sunday brunch.

For this week's recipe Lemon Dill Chicken I pinned this recipe last year and i've made it twice so here's the link: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/lemon_dill_chicken.html 

Well that's about it for this entry. this week's plan hit the Nature trail at least once during the week. And go with K and D to Griffith Park for a hike. In next week's entry I'll talk about Griffith park workout's and K anI are going to experiment with a farmer's market lasagna made with eggplant and zucchini and no pasta! but more on that next week!

Until then keep Takin' Care-a Business!
~C