A birthday "getaway" & the Juicing Lab...

The birthday "getaway"...
To celebrate tax day, I asked Stephen if we could trek up to Tulsa to explore the options for shelter...little did we know the adventure it would become.
On the way to Tulsa, our coolant container decided she was 10+ years old and it was time to crack and call it a life, SO we ended up on the side of the toll road since we wanted to avoid blowing up. We soon found out that stopping there (speed limit = 75, meaning that everyone = 85mph) was probably as dangerous as the car blowing up! Anyways, blah-blah-blah...we eventually spent the night in Tulsa which was not the plan, but ended up great because we found the perfect house to rent the next day! It was definitely a(nother) blessing in disguise. :o) 
Speaking of blessings in disguise, I'm hoping to call my injury a blessing in disguise in the near future, although right now it still just feels like an ongoing pain in the neck. Unfortunately, I've now broken into the double digits for the # of days on my Grandma's Workout Plan. 
Juicing: not a fan...
Today, Stephen and I had some fun borrowing a friend's juicer...we made some amazing concoctions, although they weren't tasty enough to convince us that we need a juicer...In the pic, Stephen is trying out the celery juice. If you've never had celery juice, it (predictably) tastes a whole lot like the smell of celery sticks in liquid form...mm, mmm blaahhhaak! 
(hint: Veggie froth is not as desirable as its cappuccino counterpart.)

The veggies were too gross to choke down alone, so at the end we decided to make some pretty outrageous cocktails...At the time of this pic, I hadn't tasted the mixture of celery, spinach, cauliflower, grapefruit, apple, pineapple, sweet potato, radish, and anything else in our fridge that was juice-able! (I'm probably forgetting some ingredients to this concoction). After a couple gulps, I had to just chug it or else it was bound to taste worse as it got warmer...

Here's our summary of juicing: 
Vegetables = Gross (!) ...or..."not incredible" ;o)
Fruits = Yum (!)
Cocktails = if the fruit:veggie ratio is ~ 50:1, it tastes good, but if not, save yourself time & effort while keeping your taste buds happy - throw ranch on those veggies & keep the roughage! :o)