I’ve been MIA all week! Has it really been a week since I posted? Whoopsh.

Life has been pretty uneventful for the past week. I’m just counting down the days until I leave for Hawaii – for the record, there are five left with only one workday! Yay!

You know how knowing you have a day off makes the days before go so much slower? Well, considering this is my first vacation all year, the slow day feeling has been times a million this past week. I leave on Wednesday!

On another note, I’ve been eating out more than I should considering I’m about to go on a week and a half long vacation to Hawaii that costs a little bit more than chump change. But it’s been delicious!

Last Saturday, I ate at Qi in Times Square. It’s a Thai restaurant with good food, fast service, and reasonable prices! Total win. I got the tofu pad thai and loved it. My dad and I may be going to the one in Union Square tonight.

On Wednesday, I went to Raaz in Newport for dinner. It’s one of my favorite Indian restaurants, but I usually go for the lunch buffet which is a good deal. For dinner, I ordered the Veg Jalfrezi, a mix of veggies cooked in a tomato-based curry. We also had a basket of naan for the table. I’m still working on those leftovers!

I had two spectacular lunches at work this week. The first: romaine lettuce with corn, bell peppers, quinoa, hummus, and grilled chicken. Loved this combination!

Second: tofu with a sweet chili sauce, hummus with toasted pitas, and roasted zucchini. The tofu was especially good!

At home, I’ve been eating some good stuff too. The other night, I made a veggie burger and roasted zucchini hummus wrap for dinner. Definitely a combination I will have again! And some Rainier cherries on the side, which I recently realized I’m no longer allergic to. I can’t get enough of them now!

Lots of corn. It’s so sweet this time of year! Though I read that the prices will be going up soon due to the drought.

And yogurt bowls whenever I eat breakfast at home. I had this one this morning! Greek yogurt, blueberries, homemade granola, raisins, chia seeds, and peanut butter. I need to figure out a way that I can have this breakfast at work too.

And finally, I have been staring at this picture of my baby Cissie that my mom sent me two days ago. So precious! I miss her.

Tonight my dad and I have our advanced photography course from 6 to 8:30 in Central Park. Can’t wait!

Mother’s Day dinner with my family was the perfect way to end my perfectly relaxing Sunday!

My parents and sister drove up to Newport to join me for dinner at Komegashi Too, a Japanese restaurant by the water. The view was amazing! I Instagram’d it immediately.

I took some photos of the fam as we waited for our food to arrive. Aren’t my mom and dad cute?

Then baby sister Steph and I:

Mom and Steph:

And Dad and I and BEER! We’re the drinkers of the family. Sapporo for me and Heineken for him.

For apps, we ordered the edamame, which was nice and light.

And ika geso, deep-fried squid legs. Not so light, but they had the perfect amount of crunch!

For my entree, I ordered the Spicy White Lover roll, which had salmon and avocado in the roll and was topped with spicy white tuna, golden tobiko, and scallions. And a piece of sauteed enoki mushroom sashimi. I knew the roll would be enough, but I absolutely love enoki mushrooms so I couldn’t resist trying it when I saw it on the menu.

My sister got the tempura zura soba, which was Japanese soba with a dipping sauce and fried shrimp tempura.

My dad ordered the same thing he had the last time we were there, the K2 skirt steak cooked medium rare. It was amazingly tender and served with a divine plum sauce.

And my mom went with the miso bouillabaisse, which contained almost every type of seafood you can imagine with a delicious miso sauce. I sampled the lobster, fish, and some of the veggies and it was all delicious.

It was the perfect meal! Great service and fantastic food. We’d actually had reservations at another restaurant, but my dad definitely made the right decision changing our reservation to K2 at the last minute.

I don’t say it enough, but I love spending time with my family. Dinner was so relaxing and fun. I’m going to miss this next year when my baby sis goes off to Vassar. It’s not far though, so hopefully, we’ll still get just as much family time!

Happy Mother’s Day! Love you, Mom!