It's been a while!

Hello Bloggersphere! I'm back.

I have to say that packing for a move and working can make a girl crazy even though many of you think I'm already nuts.

It's move week and to make this a wonderful moving experience, I went and twisted my ankle on Saturday.  Of course, I continued working until my ankle was the size of an orange.

Thanks to dinner and expert medical advice from Maggie, I am now wearing an ankle brace, icing my ankle, and elevating my ankle more often.  I pulled the tendon across the top of my foot and it might take months to heal.  There goes running for a few months.

Now that I am actually leaving Pennsylvania, I have to say I will miss the friends I have made.  They have been great and I hope to meet up with them again sometime. I also love the east coast and all the greenery something I won't have in Utah.  Thinking about leaving made me think of other things I will miss besides my friends.

First, I will so miss Wegmans.  It is more than a grocery store.  It is an experience.  They have so many food choices and take-out options that sometimes I feel my head spinning.

The pizza is pretty good but I have never seen a large pizza as large as the pizzas are at Wegmans.

This is big 20"

Second, I will miss real bagels.  It is hard to find a bad bagel in Allentown. The best in my option is Hot Bagels on Lehigh Street.  They also have a location at the Allentown Farmer's Market.

Hot Bagels are a meal.  They are huge with lots of cream cheese.  The bagel shown is a garlic bagel with garlic and herb cream cheese.  Everything is homemade.

When I would go in the early mornings heading for work, I would see the guys in the back placing fresh dough into huge boiling tanks of water and then taking them out.  

Oh, how I am going to miss these Hot Bagels!

Finally, there is Pie's On Pizzeria in Catasauqua.  Hands down, the best pizza, Italian food, and cheesesteaks in the Lehigh Valley.  I mean the guy was born in Italy and he is using his grandmother's recipes.  I rarely cooked when I lived in Catty (the nick name of Catasauqua); I lived on Pie's On.  It's that good.  I probably had pizza once a week because John makes the best pizza in the Lehigh Valley.  I will really miss his pizza.


These are a few of the things I will miss about Pennsylvania.  Now, I want dinner from Pie's On.