The weather here this week has been sooooo incredibly dreary and yucky; I'd really been looking forward to some quality time in bed with a book on my day off. Definitely got some of that in, but didn't want to feel too lethargic, so Rob and I braved the weather and took the street car down to the Quarter to go to the
Audubon Insectarium. I'd gotten tickets for us from
livingsocial * a few weeks ago, so we figured it was a good day to use them.
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| Awesome giant koi fish |
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| Butterflies also enjoying the very rainy view of Canal |
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| Feasting! |
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Rob was still soaked from our walk; attempts to not smile when posing with butterfly
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| Rolling the ball of dung |
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| Big earthworm |
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| Check out my sweet armor |
We had a good time. We were there for quite a while (at least 2 hours). They did have some food prepared in the back of the museum with bugs. Rob and I tried pretty much all of them - my favorite was the chocolate "chirp" cookies with crickets in them.
After a relaxing streetcar ride home (i.e. I almost fell asleep), we came home and relaxed.
For dinner, since we were both home and wanted to cook together, we decided to try a recipe we'd found:
Crab Cake Mac N Cheese. In a quest to make this somewhat healthier, I swapped the regular pasta for Ronzoni Smart Taste macaroni and the cheeses for Cabot 50% reduced fat cheddar (normally I like the 75% reduced fat kind, but I figured since it needed to melt well for this that I'd get the 50%). This dish took a lot longer to make than anticipated, but the result was well worth it:
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| The topping is a hot sauce/panko crumb mixture |
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| Yum! |
Good thing we both really liked it, because this recipe made a ton! With the swaps that we made, according to my BodyMedia food logger, one serving (I put in that this made 8 servings, and they're pretty generous servings) is 423 calories. Not too bad.
* Livingsocial and
Groupon have been a great place to find stuff on our "to do" and "to eat" list for cheaper. We've used a few now; we keep all the ones that we have on the side of the fridge as a reminder of fun stuff to do together when we have some free time.
Rob's birthday is Wednesday, so we have another outing planned: the WWII Museum (Rob's pick).
Oh my god you look great! I haven't seen pictures of you in ages, but you look so thin!
ReplyDeleteThat crabcake mac n cheese sounds ridiculously delicious. I think it's great that you two are doing so much stuff... we've been living in the bay area for three years now, and I feel like there's still so much to see and do, but we rarely go out and do it unless someone is