yoga and mussels

I feel incredibly cliche. You know, country girl moves to the big city and starts doing yoga…. Well, it’s sad but true. I officially went to my first yoga class on Saturday. My friend found this great deal at a place right in Capitol Hill for a yoga basics class that meets each Saturday in January and asked if I’d be interested in giving it a try with her. I decided “why not? it’s only 4x right?”. Right. Not. Of course I totally loved every second and now am going to have to sign up for probably the rest of my life. Thanks Tammy. ;)

I don’t think I would have ever been open to yoga back at home in GA because I’ve always had the attitude that it’s not hard enough of a work out and I’d rather not waste my work out time on something that’s not really going to get my blood pumping. Now that we live here in D.C. though things are different. I walk at least 40 minutes every day just to get to and from work, I do a low intensity work out with a friend at my office gym during my lunch hour, and my stress level has sky-rocketed from years previous. I may have mentioned on here at some point that since we’ve moved I’ve deeply strained my back on two separate occasions. We’re talking can’t bend over to wash my face in the sink every morning kind of strain that lasts at least a week and a half. I really think that yoga will be a perfect supplement for strengthening and flexibility which will help my back, tone my muscles, and relieve some stress to help with sleeping at night. I’ll keep you posted on the yoga endeavors.

Did someone say mussels? Okay, maybe it was muscles, but we finally got around to going to Granville Moores on Saturday night for their famous mussels and frites (fries) on H street. Athens people: think a Trappeze beer selection and feel, with a fabulous history and famous mussels. They were challenged to a Moules Frites Throwdown in March 2008, with Food Network Star, Chef Bobby Flay and won. We’ve been talking about going since we moved here and are now hating ourselves for not getting here sooner. They describe themselves as Gastropub with a Healthy Belgian Fetish and if you need more info than all of the above to love this place, just check out the history:


“Who is Dr. Granville Moore?
Dr. Granville Moore was a neighborhood Doctor who twice a week provided pro-bono work for the sick and less fortunate members of the community at the location of Granville Moores. Although not much is known about him, we have had several wonderful visitors come in and share their stories of the Doctor. We sometimes feel that maybe he has been looking over us, just as he took care of others here for so long. We kept the name as an homage to the man who did so much for this community.”

Basically-the building stood vacant for 30 years before a few business-minded entrepreneurs purchased the property and opened up Granville Moore’s. In short, we will be going back, and SOON.