Café Con Monica

On Full Moon Jams

I’ve been saying for a while now that I really want to make it to the Full Moon Jams here in Chicago. My friend is a bellydancer & fire spinner and she has definitely introduced me to the awesome community. She is now in Thailand living it up spinning fire on Koh Phi Phi and since I miss her so much I thought I would check out some fire spinners here and just daydream about when she will be back in Chicago!

Before the jam actually starts there is free yoga to anyone who wants to join! My roomie and I decided to get there early, set up our blanket and then take advantage of free yoga outside!

Then the fire spinning & drum circle began! I was just in awe of the skills and I really wanted to get up and dance but my roomie wasn’t having it. Next time I will definitely get in there and shake it!

They even had some people doing some crazy things with LED hula hoops! 
 

It was a great time, lots of  kind and interesting people and I will definitely try to make it to the next one this month!

On life in the summer…

So I have no clue how a whole two weeks since I posted but that is summer life. I’ve been keeping insanely busy doing all the fun things I can manage. I thought I would post them all at once but it would be more fun to share in a few posts.

So to begin…an update on my summer bucket list:

{1.} SUP – Stand Up Paddleboarding & SUP Yoga!
{2.}   Hiking at Starved Rock 
{3.} Camping! I went camping once as a kid but I have to get myself prepped for Symbiosis in September and 5 days of car camping! 
 {4.} Have a BBQ – at home or on the beach 
{5.} Make it to a Full Moon Fire Jam
{6.} Movies in the park at Millenium 
{7.} Spend a day at the beach with my bestie 
{8.} Meet some new friends
{9.} Workout outside as much as possible 
{10.} Spend a day hunting down food trucks and being a tourist 
{11.}  Go see my friend in Utah (this one might be hard but I hope to make it happen) 
 
 I think I have made some serious progress considering I posted that a list a little over a month ago. #11 is definitely not going to happen, and try as I might to organize it I don’t think that #3 will either. 
I had a great time Paddleboarding but since I plan to do it again and hopefully get more pictures I will wait to post about that. 
 
I’ve spent more days than I can count at the beach already this summer, I’m actually headed there right after I finish this post! 
 

Please excuse the ridiculous cleavage in this photo…just noticed it now. 

 
Are you working on your summer bucket list???

On Tuesday Nights!

First I just want to take a second and share some thoughts with you guys. I find myself feeling so lucky and happy with the changes and decisions in my life over the past year. Sometime soon I hope to post a little more in depth but for now I just wanted to put that out there! 

I’m working my way down  my Summer Bucket List. Last night was damn chilly…and foggy in Chicago but the boyfriend and I still went down to Millennium Park for a movie in the park!

I got this awesome blanket from the Peanuts collection at Target and it comes with a handle/bag thing that you can carry it around in which was perfect for a picnic!! It is going to get plenty of use:
This is from the target site, forgot to get a photo of the blanket myself

The movie playing last night was Apollo 13. Of course, most of us have probably seen it but there is something fun about laying out watching a movie in a crowd with all the awesome buildings lit up in the background!

Can’t wait to do it again in a couple weeks for Edward Scissorhands!

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