Category: Monday Lunches

I started out this Monday morning with a run. It was beautiful with the sun coming out, which was really nice, but it was so frigid out, I only went .5 miles.

Today we went downtown to the Nauvoo Cafe.

The lobby of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. This is a beautiful building. I haven’t been here since Paul and I had our wedding dinner. We had our dinner in the Jade room not the cafe :). Thinking back, they served the best salmon!

A statue of Joseph Smith in front of the cafe.

Mmm…delicious.

Inside the cafe was as decorative as the lobby. Very beautiful building.

We always have a good time during our lunches.

These sandwiches were VERY delicious. The left one, turkey and cranberry, was mom and dad’s. Aaron and I had the grilled cheese. He had his with bacon. We will definitely be back for these. These sandwiches were worth the drive!

We ate dessert at the cafe. We tried a cinnamon roll. Not very good. They looked really good with the 2 inches of cream cheese icing. The icing was wonderful, but the roll was disappointing. I will try something different next time.

Peach pie. My mother and I wanted to try this one. Again, disappointed. The lunch was great, but we chose wrong with the desserts. But, that won’t stop us from coming back, we will have to try different desserts!

Went for a run this morning.

It’s time to increase my mileage. I need to start running long runs and increase my miles again to 25-30 miles a week.

For our Monday lunch, we went to El Pollo Loco. They did make my wrap a vegetarian, the second time :). You can’t go wrong with avocado, vegetables and cheese in a wrap! They did have issues in their restaurant that day. Being an owner, I totally understand! I guess we all have some sort of issue that pops up during the day while running a quick service restaurant!

After lunch we drove down to Vineyard. Vineyard? Yeah, I didn’t know there was a city, Vineyard either. We were on our way to get dessert and we saw this Puppy Store. We had to stop in and see what it as all about.

This store is full of puppies. You can hold and play with as many puppies as you want to. For as long as you want to!

To my surprise, they had a Havanese! I don’t see many of these around. Charlie was a Havanese and we miss dearly. I had to hold her. I so desperately want to get another puppy, but it’s still too hard after Charlie. Some day.

We went next door for some ice cream at Brooker’s.

Yes, This is their work uniform.

The owner of the store. 🙂 They make their ice cream in house and it is really delicious.

Aaron said it reminded him of Ziggy Piggy! You, know, Bill and Ted’s Excellent adventure? This is why it’s so fun to be with my brother.

And…That’s my brother! 🙂

Always a fun time on our Monday lunches!

Today was a fabulous run for me.

Ran around my usual course.

The weather was beautiful. 70′. Cooler than it has been so it made the run easier and very enjoyable. I’m at a 11 minute mile and still working on getting my speed back!

For lunch we went to Shake Shack. A new restaurant in town and we had to try it. They were packed with a line out the door! I guess everyone needed to try it as well.

I wasn’t going to take a picture of my lunch, but it’s memorable. This place doesn’t have a selection for a vegetarian. The only sandwich without meat was a ‘shroom burger. It’s a cheese filled fried mushroom. I’m not into mushrooms so I I told my brother I’m good with fries and part of his shake.

He ordered me the mushroom burger anyway. Which was very nice of him. When he ordered, the cashier warned him two times this sandwich doesn’t have meat 🙂 I thought that was funny!

I should have taken pictures of our lunch. My brother said his hamburger was just ok. All the burgers were a little larger than a slider 🙂 He said the french fries were ore ida fries, and the shake…. This is what I should have had a picture for. The shake was 3 inches tall! The cup was three inches tall and the shake did not go over the rim.

We had a good time and lots of laughs at lunch as always.

I asked Aaron if he would go back. This was his face. I don’t think he will be back. It was fun to try something new.

With only a 3 inch shake we needed something sweet. We picked up Eli early from school and went into Provo to my favorite dessert shop, Taste.

I love their bathroom faucet 🙂

We are back together! I miss my little boy when we do our Monday lunches.

This place makes their own chocolate. Eli is looking at the chocolate production next door.

The menu. All the chocolate items are made with their chocolate.

We ordered molten lava cake with raspberry sauce.

S’more Taste Style. Layers of cake, graham cracker crumble, chocolate custard, strawberries with a toasted home-made marshmallow. Arron was so impressed he wants to recreate this one! This one was excellent!

Brownie with ice cream. The brownie is why we frequent this shop. I think it’s the best dessert on the menu. Making their chocolate next door makes a huge difference in the taste and it is truly a wonderful brownie.

As always it was a fun Monday and a great start for the week!