Nerd alert!!!
Like our new helmets? Mal and I bought them for our upcoming ski trip this weekend. We’ve heard one too many stories about accidents on the slopes resulting in serious head injuries, so we figured we’d rather be safe than sorry.
Dinner
After buying a few last-minute essentials for our trip, Mal and I swung by the Rustic Kitchen for dinner. Clearly, I enjoy dining at this restaurant. I’ve eaten there four times in the past two months!
To start, Mal and I munched on some focaccia with a white bean-olive oil-garlic dipping sauce.
For dinner, I ordered the fig, prosciutto, and arugula flatbread pizza, which I thought was an appetizer, but it ended up being massive!
I ate a few pieces (and a meatball from Mal’s meal), but there are still tons of leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch.
Lots of good TV to watch tonight! Enjoy the evening!
P.S. Last chance to enter my Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt! I’m picking a winner in the morning!
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Hey, it’s not at all nerdy to wear a helmet when skiing, snowboarding, or riding a bike, for that matter! Good for you guys for spreading the word.
I’m so glad you ended up going with helmets – such a good decision. Enjoy your evening! 🙂
It is SUPER smart to wear a helmet- that is not nerdy at all…..oh okay, just a tad 😉 But your pizza looks divine–yummmY!
I really need to get a helmet, the idea of falling is so scary! Have a fun and safe trip! 🙂
I love Thursday night TV!
I LOVE flatbread pizzas! That looks so good! Enjoy the rest of your evening Tina!
Mmm that flatbread pizza looks yummy! I love when I have good leftovers to look forward to for lunch the next day 🙂
After falling and hitting my head too many times snowboarding, I bit the bullet too, and bought a helmet. I don’t care how dorky I look in it. I don’t want brain damage!! My education was expensive!
aw sweet! enjoy your ski trip!
Proud of you for setting such a good example by wearing a helmet. Safety first!
biking is for lovers, for sure!
I’m SO GLAD you guys are wearing helmets. Seriously, so many people think they don’t need them, yet I’ve heard multiple really sad stories about people dying after hitting their heads. Have a great time!
Thursday night TV is the best 🙂
That sounds like that pizza had some great flavor! I’m making pizza tomorrow night, and I’m a little sad I don’t have any figs!
Being as clumsy as I am, I sometimes think I should wear a helmet every day. Walking down the street, shopping for groceries – I always trip or hit my head on stuff!
Have a good night. New episode of Jersey Shore will be on soon… 🙂
I would be very happy to have that pizza as my leftovers 😉
I love good TV nights! That bread looks delicious. And I’m totally with you on the helmet, glad you guys got them!
Great call on getting helmets. I started wearing one a while ago and got picked on for it, but it has saved me from serious injury. I’m a snowboarder and once got a severe concussion when my board slipped on some ice and I fell, and that was *with* the helmet on. My doctor said I was lucky I was wearing it…
I love the idea of the white bean-olive oil-garlic dipping sauce! I’ve never seen that on a restaurant menu but it sounds fantastic.
My husband refers to Thursday nights as “comedy night done right”–in reference to all the comedy shows on NBC: Community, The Office, and Outsourced being his favorites.
I’ve never been skiing, but I would definitely want a helmet — safety first 🙂
As a physical therapy student who’s been studying traumatic brain injury in the past week, I’m psyched to see you’re going to wear helmets! 🙂 Have fun!
good thinking wearing helmets! : ) i’m working in a neuro-rehab unit right now and i’ve seen lots of head injuries related to outdoor winter activities!
I love that the arugala is right on top! Yum.
Aww! You guys are too cute! 😀
Have a great night!
Helmets are totally necessary when skiing/boarding! Last weekend, I hit a little patch of ice that I didn’t see and ended up backwards and slammed my head pretty hard. Thanksfully, I had a helmet, but my neck was pretty sore the next morning.
My husband is snowboarding with friends in Stowe, VT this weekend–I am SO excited for him, as winter sports are totally his “thing”! My one winter sport is snowshoeing. 😉
And yes, helmets ARE important, not nerdy at all! You guys look adorable. I hope you have a wonderful time.
And your dinner looks like it was scrumptious!!
You guys are such a cute couple! And that pizza looks amazing!
Do you ever eat junk food? McD’s, Burger King, anything?
Not fast food, but plenty of junk food!
Great looking meal!!! Those will be some good leftovers!
Wow that is massive. The white bean dip sounds awesome.
I cracked my head open the first time I tried snowboarding (I wasn’t wearing a helmet!). Definitely learned my lesson 🙁
OMG, I ate at the Rustic Kitchen a couple years ago and had exactly what you had. When I go there in exactly one month I want that flatbread again yum! I also got the mac ‘n cheese with truffles and truffle oil!
Mmmm, flat bread pizza is one of my favorite appetizers! That crusty bread looks amazing too!
when i was a kid some 200 pound man crashed into me on the ski slopes..and i ended up crashing into a tree…with a concussion! I think helmets are a-okay. And you look adorable in them 🙂
Arugula pizza… be still my heart!!
LOL! Your faces are classic in that pic!
Holy moley!! that flatbread is HUGE!!
Just today I was writing on my blog about baby food…it’ll be interesting to hear your views and thoughts when you get to that phase in your life 🙂
Helmets are a good idea…we got our first helmets for snowboarding this year and they came in handy. We didn’t have any life threatening crashes but even for the little biffs it was nice to have a helmet!
Ooo, Rustic Kitchen looks so good! The helmets, do, too. =)
Mmm…the meal looks fabulous!
And I love the picture of you guys in your helmets. 😀
My husband picked up a helmet when he was in college and adventurous and skied through glades all the time. I picked one up a couple years ago just to be safe. I have a similar fun picture from when I first got mine 🙂 Mine’s a nice matte black. I like to think of it as multi-functional…a really warm hat, and it keeps my hair out of my face.
Where are you going skiing? hubs and I are going to Killington this weekend. It will be our first VT ski adventure outside of Stowe.
That flatbread is mouth-watering! I can see why you enjoy that restaurant!
We ski all the time and I keep begging my hubby to invest in a helmet…it’s your life at stake!
Love how delish the pizza looks!! YUM!!!
That looks excellent~hehe you and Mal are such an adorable pair 🙂 BTW–since you loooove pizza–I totally recommend you try Argentinean style pizza! you’ll fall off your chair.
You two will be styling on the slopes!
helmets are hip!! have fun skiing, best sport EVER!!!…next to marathoning 🙂
Oh yum, man oh man does that look good!
Bahh! Almost Friday!
Btw, I’m digging the helments.
Jess 😀
You guys will be happy you got the helmets! As a skier who skied on my high school ski team and still skis, I’ve fallen so many times that my helmet has really saved me from either real injuries or a bad concussion. Smart decision. PLUS, it will keep your head and ears extra warm when the wind is whipping around you.
Helmets are sexy! 🙂 Lol…it’s all about the attitude you have while donning them. Rock it out, girlfriend, and props to you for keeping that noggin safe!