Vintage Sale!

Last night Gretchen had found a Vintage sale with a happy hour in TimeOut Beirut which took place downtown that we decided to all go to and check out. We took a cab downtown, which I was glad about since I am sore from this Spin Tabata class-more on that later. After we got dropped off we had to walk around to find it, since again, there are no addresses here, still amazed by this. We turned the corner and walked up the hill to where we saw some tents set up. As we walked up, there was free martinis and other gin drinks, as well as an amazing selection of snacks to eat. We started looking around the shop and checking out the great vintage items. There were gorgeous china tea cups, cool, funky clothes, suede journals, huge class jars, old radios, a phonograph, and a whole bunch of great records, including John Cougar and other great 70s records. There were sunglasses, and vintage jewelry and hats too. The store also had their own clothes that were 80% off, but it was hard for me to do the math on 80% off of Lebanese prices and then convert it to dollars. Too much math for me, especially when the dress I was looking at was 5,000,000 Lebanese. (After some math I realized the dress was originally $3300, and after 80% off it was around $645-I didn't buy it). All in all, it was a great store, and cool to do something different. It reminded me of a sample sale in New York or Chicago. We talked with the store owner for a while as well, she was really interesting and told us they do these events once a month.

Now about Spin Tabata. I have been going to this small gym by our house for Spin class, and they added a new class that we tried out Wednesday called Spin Tabata. It is basically interval training with Spin bikes and work outs off the bike. You do 40 seconds hard, 20 second break, 30 seconds harder, 15 second break 20 seconds hardest, 10 second break and repeat. We did six intervals of this and I am sore. It was an incredible workout and I am looking forward to it next Wednesday. There is something surreal about sitting on a Spin bike and realizing that I am in Beirut taking Spin.