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Coffee!

Good morning! This AM I popped by my usual hang, Bean Around the World at Main and 20th (@BeanonMain20th), for some coffee as always. Today was Record Store Day in Vancouver and the streets were a buzz and Daniela and her boyfriend John came rolling in to Bean Around the World and I was happy to surprise them with a morning coffee! They were pretty happy, maybe a little confused, but happy.

Breakfast

I was excited to go meet up with Mark Brand and his crew at Save on meats (@EastVanBrand & @Saveonmeats). Mark went in to the kitchen to help prepare a gluten free & veggie eggs benny for me and my #Tweettoeat journey. It was AMAZING. Served on polenta with a to die for salad with Sole Food tomatoes, quinoa & much more joyful bits. It was great to meet some of the team and enjoy some ridiculous Saturday morning conversation from Britany Murphy to dating people based on their level of IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome), to the internet cat video festival coming up this Summer. Yes, the morning was a good one. Good company, great laughs and a belly full of gluten free, veggie goodness.

Mark hooked me up with some killer Save on Meats T-Shirts, a snapback hat, a basil plant (OOO!) and some granola! Oh sweet Saturday deliciousness. I am lucky.

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Friday! Who else was excited? The weekend is finally here, and it will be jam packed! I’m not sure how I will fit it all in to a single blog post! Today was a lot of fun. I felt really inspired by the people I met today and really blessed to get to welcome all of these great people in to my life everyday. I have one goal for this weekend. Meet as many new people as possible.

Coffee!

As usual, I hopped over to Bean Around the World at Main and 20th (@BeanonMain20th), for my morning java. Mel (as seen below) finally broke the “cute young guy” string of coffee’s I was on. Mel was standing behind me today, which meant she got her coffee on the house! She seemed pretty happy (as happy as one could be in the wee hours of the morning). Thanks Bean! I love seeing you guys every morning.

Then I was happy to meet one of the owners, Amanda, who I had been tweeting with all along. After going back and forth with emails for so many weeks, it was wonderful to finally meet her. No wonder they are doing so well in there with such a fantastic woman running the show!

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The Hands-On Cook-Off contest is back for 2013 (HERE‘s some info on 2012′s) and they’ve got some great prizes up for grabs! They’ve got a $1500 grocery gift card for Save-On Foods/Overwaitea, $750 worth of Apple gift cards and much more. Learn all about it from our friend, Michael Eckford, in the video below, then visit bettertogetherbc.ca/contest for all of the rules on how to enter your intergenerational cooking video.

Thursday came so quickly this week, didn’t it? Day 4 came and went pretty fast and it was another great one.

Coffee!

Just like every gorgeous day, I started it at Bean Around the World at Main and 20th (@BeanonMain20th), for my morning coffee and surprise and delight with another stranger. This morning it was the lovely, Reid that was standing in line behind me (had he not held the door for me, he would have been in front of me and that would have sucked for him!) I don’t know how, but it seems that each day there is a cute mid 20s – mid 30s man? I am so in to this! Take note, this is clearly a good spot for some attractive men watching on Main street.

The day was long and my lunch consisted of left over Filipino food from @Deedls and some carrots from the donated gift card from @MetropolisatMet.  I was looking forward to dinner in the evening with @KinseySS (Steve!) since we were going for one of my favorite foods, SUSHI!

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Vancouver has a brand spanking new outdoor, rooftop, patio – The Roof at Black + Blue! Glowbal Collection is launching the rooftop deck on April 25th and I got a sneak peak of the lounge and some of the food!

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The third day! This morning I woke up slightly less sick than I was on Tuesday at the ripe ol’ hour of 6:30am to talk about #TweettoEat with The Early Show on CBC radio. Needless to say, coffee this morning was really calling my name.

Coffee!

As usual, I meandered over to Bean Around the World at Main and 20th (@BeanonMain20th), for my morning brew. I was able to surprise the wonderful Mike (as you can see below) with his coffee. In his morning daze, he thanked me and was very surprised. I just love this!

The rest of the day was full of wonderful food surprises at the office!

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