saturday happenings

You’ll be glad to know I survived hot yoga without feeling as if I had to throw up all over the place after eating all of those pancakes. I call that a successful class — not to mention my instructor played “Like a G6” during one of the flows today. Any yoga instructor that does that is a-okay in my book. However, it’s kind of sad that I must get my groove onto that song in yoga class. #whitegirlproblems

After yoga, I was in the area to go to a new to me farmers market. While Tinley Park is in fact pretty close to where I live, I’ve actually never been to their market before!

It was an absolutely gorgeous morning — thankfully the God forsaken 90+ temperatures have left the area (for the moment), and we were left with a breezy 75 degree morning. I’ll take it.

The farmer’s market was held in the parking lot of the town’s downtown train station. I actually lived in Tinley Park for the first four years of my life, and my old church is right down the street from the farmers market. The downtown area of Tinley Park is really cute and has a lot of newer buildings with great restaurants.

Not to mention some insanely adorable old homes that have vintage charm that you would not believe!

I had heard this was a good farmer’s market from a couple of different people, but I was surprised to find out of the 20+ stands which were set up, only 3 of them were full of produce! The rest of the stands were canned goods, face painting, etc. — still fine, but not what I was expecting.

 
There was only one real stand to choose from for my vegetable selection. With the exception of the swiss chard and green tomatoes I bought from a teeny tiny stand, which was a total hidden gem, I got the rest of my vegetables where everyone else was crowding around.

Apparently it isn’t a good idea to carry an iced coffee in one hand, a camera around your neck, and try to bag produce up at once. Don’t try this at home kids.

I ended up buying onions, broccoli, tomatoes, beets, summer squash, and green beans from the overly crowded produce stand. And I even managed not to spill my coffee. Success!

There was also a fruit stand, where I bought the juiciest peaches ever. I ate one this afternoon during my cleaning break — I’m kind of sad I didn’t get two quarts!

 
All in all, the farmer’s market wasn’t a total bust. I got some great produce, took some fun pictures, and got to stand in the sunshine for a good half hour.

I’m going to wait until next week to get my face painted though — I couldn’t decide between a unicorn or a butterfly. I’m sure you understand.

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