Week 7 & 8 Update

As you know, I was on vacation for the past two weeks, and was out of the country working on #11 (travel somewhere on my bucket list), so had little to no internet access.  It was kinda awesome, although I did miss regularly blogging about the fun activities I was doing =). 

So, this update is for Week 7 and 8.  I was able to knock a few things off the list:
#7: Bike in the Gran Fondo
#22: Splurge on something sparkly

And, I did the following two things, just haven't had a chance to post about them yet:
#8: Run my first 5K in 3 years
#11: Travel somewhere on my bucket list

Progress so far:
#9: 30 new recipes: 1 new recipe!  Total 13 of 30 recipes cooked (43.33%).  While in Ecuador, Mari was gracious enough to teach me how to make a traditional Ecuadorian soup - Plantain meatball soup.  It took two hours (!!!) to make, and wow was it tasty!!! Thank you, Mari! =)

#29: SIX books read in the past two weeks!!!!  Vacay is good to me :)  Total 10 of 30 books read! (33.33%).  Books read over vacation include:

• Groundswell by Katie Lee
• Elemental by Brigid Kemmerer
• Storm by Brigid Kemmerer
• Clash of Kings (Book #2 of the Game of Thrones series) by George R R Martin
• The Paper Princess by Marion Chesney (a free book through Amazon.com)
• Anathema by Megg Jensen (also a free book through Amazon.com)

Incredibly, I only have 5 weeks left of this challenge, and still so much more fun to be had!  17 recipes, 22 posts, 20 books, 30 hours of community service. I'm getting nervous that I won't finish it all!!! 

But, I am having the TIME OF MY LIFE. =) =) =)