{"id":26796,"date":"2011-12-12T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=26796"},"modified":"2011-12-12T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:49:56","slug":"duels-and-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=26796","title":{"rendered":"Duels and Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday night Michael and I drove up to Seattle for my annual family Christmas party. We were staying with my good friend Rachel on Friday night to see their new place in Bellevue and hang out.<\/p>\n

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\nThe boys took a shot before we all headed out for the evening. We went to a piano bar<\/a> in downtown Bellevue that had dueling pianos.<\/p>\n

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\nThe fun part about staying in Bellevue was being walking distance from the bar. We got a table inside the packed bar and ordered a round of drinks. The two pianists sat across from each other and played all requests–some with the real lyrics and some made up by them.<\/p>\n

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\nIt was such a fun night! The guys couldn’t be stumped–they played everything. They even played some of our requests too (we were impressed they were able to play Voodoo Child on the piano).<\/p>\n

It was a late night but we only stayed for one round of drinks before heading back to Rachel’s place for the night. I had to get up early the next morning to hit the gym before we headed to the family party.<\/p>\n

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\nRachel’s condo was really<\/em>\u00a0nice and there were two fitness rooms! Rachel kept me company while I did my cardio on the elliptical first.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter spending about45 minutes or so on the elliptical we moved over to the weight room. It was a really nice space and wasn’t crowded either.<\/p>\n

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\nI loved working out and having the whole room to myself! It was a good workout and even better because I had Rachel to chat with to pass the time.<\/p>\n

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I think I burned more calories on the cardio machine this time because I was chatting with Rachel and didn’t notice how hard I was pushing it.<\/p>\n

Gym Stats:<\/strong>
\nTime: 1:21<\/strong>
\nCalories Burned: 765<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nI was really happy to get my workout out of the way first thing because I knew there would be a lot<\/em>\u00a0of food in my future at the party. Michael and I got cleaned up and packed and then the four of us grabbed breakfast before we hit the road.<\/p>\n

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\nWe went to the Palomino<\/a> in downtown Bellevue for breakfast. I ordered the veggie frittata and it came with potatoes. I wish I knew how the potatoes were prepared because they were extraordinary. The frittata was just okay–a little on the plain side.<\/p>\n

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\nI had a blast with my friends. It was so good to see their new place and hang out. I’m a bit jealous of their fitness centers in the condo. I would LOVE to have a gym like that available to me any time I wanted!<\/p>\n

We said our goodbyes and Michael and I headed north to my parent’s house.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Have you ever seen a dueling piano act before?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday night Michael and I drove up to Seattle for my annual family Christmas party. We were staying with my good friend Rachel on Friday night to see their new place in Bellevue and hang out. The boys took a shot before we all headed out for the evening. We went to a piano bar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,312,55,60,1880,3207,95,101,104,107,3799,1949,123,1683,169,4303,2973,2806,219,2932,299,301],"tags":[5179,5175,8596,8602,5181,5180,8627,1940,8640,5176,5177,5178,207,3854,960,8811,8806,1507],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/weights11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26796"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26812,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796\/revisions\/26812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}