Café Con Monica

Home Sweet Home!

Sorry I have been MIA but with all the packing leading up to coming home and then actually coming home so much has been going on! 

I surprised my family and bestie G by showing up Sunday/Monday when everyone thought I would be home in September. Thanks to my amazing friend Snifferella for helping me orchestrate it all! She picked me up from the airport and drove me home to my parents and then Monday asked G to dinner at our fave wing place so I could show up! 

So here are some of my pictures from my good bye and hello!! 

then upon arrival!!! 

and on Monday when I surprised my bestie G 

I seriously couldn’t be happier to get home and once this jet lag is fully kicked I am going to really start enjoying everything. For now…back to the backyard to lay out 🙂 

Ooh Monday….

First I want to send a big welcome to all the new followers! I may be a bit slow but I plan to check out all your blogs! 


This past weekend was a bit sad as the semester ends this Friday so we had a night out with the foreigners before everyone goes there own way. So sad that GCGirl and Saffer are leaving me!! I didn’t cry but we had a great meal, lots of laughs and yummy wine! 

Sunday I ran errands and started making a giant mess clearing my apartment up to prep for summer camp. 

I was having a rough hair day…well actually I really didn’t want to comb my hair that day so it was a day old and I was trying to figure out how to make it work. Anyway I will seriously miss these girls!

It was a great night though a bit sad saying bye to these great people I have met this year. 

How was your weekend?? 



Cupping!

I’ve wanted to try cupping for a while now and figured I would do it in China but next thing you know you have been here 11 months and you still haven’t done it. I finally convinced the girls we should try the place nearest to us which has blind people giving massages and they have other things like cupping as well…

*side note: we got to the place expecting to mime out that we wanted massages and cupping only to find the guy at the front desk was blind and didn’t speak any English. Pretty damn funny. 

Anyway. All this working out we have been doing has us all kind of beat up and so we decided to try this. I’ve read good things about how it helps rid your body of built up toxins and Saffer just wanted to try it out to see how it felt. I was terrified watching them do hers! 

Here are some pics in case you aren’t sure what the heck I am even talking about: 

 

What our backs looked like after! 

We were both a bit sore in some spots for a day or two. For me it was the tops of my shoulders and the darkest spot on my left side(middle of my back) that were problem areas and they were very sore for a couple days but after that they started to feel so much better. 

This is 5 days later! They are fading pretty quickly

I’d like to do it again soon but the marks are not really so great for summer time weather. So I might wait until it cools down again. 

Have you tried this before? 
What were your results?

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