I think that blog post title just about covers our Saturday in a nut shell!
I arrived home from Boulder early Friday evening (trip recap coming soon!) and spent the night on the couch with Ryan, Sadie and a delicious pizza which was everything I wanted and more. I was exhausted after a late night on Thursday and an early wakeup call on Friday, so a lazy night in sounded perfect.
Saturday, on the other hand, was much more lively! Earlier in the week, my friend Chandra and I made plans to follow up a Saturday morning Pure Barre class with brunch with our husbands and Chandra’s best friend Jessica who was in town for the weekend.
We headed to Davidson which is quickly becoming one of my favorite places. We waited about 10 minutes or so until our table at Toast was ready and then sat down and chatted away while sipping coffee and digging into their delicious corn bread and apple butter.
I ordered the two egg breakfast with fruit and a side of country ham. I used the dippy eggs and ham to make my own breakfast sandwich and had no trouble clearing my plate and using the cornbread to soak up the last of the runny yolks.
After breakfast, our little group walked around the Davidson farmer’s market and popped into a few local shops that are already prepared for the holiday season ahead!
I left with a pig painting I’ve been eyeing for two months.
Every time Ryan and I have visited Davidson and explored the local shops, I’ve left thinking about that pig painting and Ryan finally convinced me to buy it. I have no idea why I love it so much or where I will hang it, but I will find a place!
Once we were done shopping, we said goodbye to our friends and headed home to eat lunch and take Sadie on a long walk. We walked for right around five miles and I’m pretty sure we talked about how fabulous the weather was on Saturday at least 10 times. It was absolutely gorgeous in Charlotte this weekend and truly felt like fall with temperatures in the mid-60s.
Our plans for the evening took us to a restaurant I’ve been dying to try ever since we moved to the Charlotte area.
Cantina 1511 is probably the restaurant I’ve heard the most about since we moved here and I was more than ready to dig into some chips and salsa once we met up with our friends a little after 7 p.m.
The girls:
(Megan + Lindsey + Me)
The boys:
(Ryan + Joe + Jamey)
I ordered a glass of cabernet and the chicken fajitas and loved everything!
The portions at Cantina 1511 are pretty darn big and that, coupled with the copious amounts of chips and salsa I ate before dinner, meant I left feeling quite satisfied. It was a great meal and I would gladly go back in the future.
Hope your Saturday was a good one!
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The pig pic made me grin, nice pick! Isn’t it interesting how different the things are that make us happy? I have a picture of some kindergarteners skis in a hand made tote bag, hanging off of a picket fence in Telluride and it lights up my day when I look at it!
I know!! It’s rare to me that a picture or painting just calls to me, so when I kept thinking about it weeks later, I knew it had to happen. I don’t know why I love it so much!
What a fabulous weekend! Love the pig painting and chips and salsa are one of my vice’s too.
It is so crazy that you live in Charlotte now. I stumbled upon your blog when I lived in Pittsburgh and was writing my own health and fitness blog. I moved to Charlotte 3.5 years ago with my husband ad stopped blogging because it was a Pittsburgh based blog. I still follow your writing and am seeing you go to all these places that I know around the area! So crazy and neat!
I hope you are liking it here! Maybe we will run one of the same races sometime!
We are absolutely LOVING it here. I am so excited to experience FALL for the first time in 10+ years. 🙂
pigs are my absolute favorite animal!! I love that painting soo much, he just looks happy to be alive!
Hi Julie!
I am a student at Davidson College, and think it is so cool you are right around the corner! My sister and I have been following your blog for a while and love what you have to say about food, exercise, and life in general! I actually play lacrosse at Davidson, so am always looking for different activities to try in my small amount of down time(baking, hiking, various exercise classes!). I hope to one day meet you because you truly have been an inspiration to my sister and me!! (Also, Toast is my favorite breakfast spot!)
Best wishes,
Kendall
Thanks so much for commenting, Kendall!! Davidson is such a beautiful area and I feel like I somehow end up there almost every weekend! Hope our paths cross soon! 🙂
Looks like you had a fun weekend! I’m glad you got the pig painting. I do that all the time, talk myself out of buying something for one reason or another and then when I finally go to pull the trigger something that’s been there for like 2 years is gone! No non-buyers regret for you!
Love the pig painting! I used to be like that with Pug pictures (I have two pugs). I got really excited when I saw one and always had to have one. I am a little obsessed with my dogs!
Where are you putting this adorable pig painting?!
I have NO idea. Maybe in my home office? It needs a home on a wall STAT! 🙂
It really was the most perfect weather in NC this weekend! I’m still trying to make it to Lake Norman one weekend and want to try Toast while I’m there!
When a painting calls to you – buy it! I think that always adds to the character home and I love hearing about how people acquire special pieces. Happy Monday!
I stopped in Davidson for work a couple weeks ago and thought what a cute town it was! I also think the pig picture is adorable, I’m sure it’ll look good anywhere.
I love that pig painting! I’m so glad you had such a nice weekend! 🙂
Literally can’t EVER go wrong with chips an salsa!
Your weekend sounded like so much fun! All the pictures of your food made me hungry. The pig picture is cute!
The piggy is adorable, it makes me think of the cover to a children’s book. Soo cute. I have a picture of these penguins sitting in the stands at a circus. I saw it when I was on a cruise around Europe and absolutely had to have it. I love that picture still, and hung it in my laundry room. For me, it gives me joy while I fold clothes to look at that picture.
I hope you find the perfect spot for your happy piggy (he looks like he enjoys the outdoors and hikes as much as you)
I love a Saturday at the farmers market! My weekend was jam packed with social engagements, so fun! But I’m worn out! 🙂
That sounds like a fabulous Saturday! Brunch is the best! And the pig painting is adorable! Would be cute in a guest room the kitchen 🙂 I also enjoyed chicken fajitas on Saturday night and they were anazing! I always use the leftovers to make a rice bowl. So excited to hear about your trip to Boulder! I have always wanted to go!
Perfect Saturday! Looks like you’re still getting some nice weather there too!
I love your pig painting. You have to let us know where you end up putting it because I think I would have a hard time placing something like that in my house.
I was just in Davidson a couple months ago! Isn’t the farmers market a blast? The bakery there is really good and it was cool getting to watch a live cooking demo.
I think its hilarious you ate ham for breakfast and then bought an adorable pig picture! 🙂
that pig painting is INCREDIBLE! love it so, so much 🙂
Looks like such a fun time 🙂 Also I love that blue tank, where is it from?
All your food looks so yummy! I’m glad you had a good time 🙂
I LOVE when shops decorate early! I am so in the festive mood! I love fajitas too- usually what I order 🙂
Mmm, runny eggs! Those are the best.
Oh man, that pig painting. Adorable!
Love that pig painting! So cute
That pig painting is super cute! I’m sure it will look great in your new house!! I don’t think you can go wrong with mexican food!! Yummy!
haha, I love that you went back to get the pig painting!! It is really cute 🙂
Awesome pig painting. I have a rule about purchases — if I go home wishing I made it, then I should go back and get it. And looks like you followed that rule! 🙂
If I were you I would’ve bought the pig picture right away because I’m so impulsive like that! 🙂 I love restaurants with big portions. I assume it was a casual dining restaurant and not a fine dining one, if they gave you bigger portions?
Definitely casual! 🙂
Love the pig! It looks like a kitchen picture to me but that could be because it matches my kitchen perfectly! I also think it would be cute in a nursery.
The pig is super cute and happy looking! When you love something that much, definitely just go for it!
Looks like a really fun weekend, looking forward to the Boulder recap!
Looks like it was a fun Saturday! Brunch on the weekend is the best. That fall crisp weather is definitely here. We went to a football game Saturday evening and it was cold!!
Has it been fairly easy to meet other couples around yours and Ryan’s age since moving to NC? I know my fiancé and I struggled with it a bit at first since my work has me working with a whole different demographic.
Sounds like there’s lots of great restaurants in Charlotte. Your dinner looks pretty good.
Brunch and Mexican food for dinner sounds amazing- my two favorites!!
The painting is ADORABLE. I do the same thing when I go shopping, if I don’t buy it but still think about it a couple weeks later, I assume it’s “meant to be” and I go back for it.
I had dinner with some of my in-law’s friends over the weekend, they are from Davidson. Of course I thought of you and Brittany, ha. (Even though you don’t live there, but you have talked about it a lot.) I really would like to make the trip from Raleigh and see it sometime, it seems like a really cute town.
Hi Julie,
Just wanted to pop by and say I absolutly love your blog and have been following for awhile. I finally took the plunge and started my own blog after being so inspired by yours ..so thank you! Also…love the pig painting 🙂
Good find!!!!
Krystin
Yay!!! Hope you love blogging! <3
I love mexican food! I can put down a ton of chips and salsa!!
Love that pig painting!!
how much is that metal reindeer thing and what is it??? i have a self-imposed rule to NEVER christmas shop before december 1st. it has gotten so out of control in the retail world and people i know are already counting down the saturdays left until christmas.