A Southern Twenty-Five on Friday: Summer Style!

I may be one of the only people who isn't annoyed with the jump from the winter-ish weather last week to the full on summer weather this week. Y'all already know I love my weather hot... give me upper 80s & 90s and I am set. I don't need any of this 70 degree weather - go ahead and skip it, please!

So, yeah, I've been pretty ecstatic about the weather that has been hanging around Charlotte this week. It reminds me that summer is just around the corner. Although, because I go home for lunch almost every day it makes it reallllly hard to come back to work when all I want to do is hang out down by the pool.

Here's to another Five on Friday with hostesses April, Darci, Natasha, and Christina!

{one}
Sign number one that summer is almost back is not the pollen in the air or the warmer temps {although those do help!} but rather the return of the Kings Drive Farmers Market. It opened up at 6am this morning and guess which crazy person decided it was a great idea to wake up & go before work this morning?

Yup.

That's right.

This girl.

As much as I love this farmers market, their hours & location make it a little difficult to get to. They're only open Tuesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays. I knew that I wouldn't be able to go tomorrow & I was being impatient {surprise, surprise} so I certainly wasn't waiting until next Tuesday. Not a possibility.

{two}
Warmer weather? Check. Daylight until after 8? Check. Must mean it's time to get back out on the Greenway with my bike! Luckily, my bike is coming back to Charlotte this weekend and I've been pestering people for like a month now about getting a group together to go ride after work one day next week. The weather this week has had me itching to get back out on the Greenway... enough so that I almost went out and bought a new bike. I decided I could wait a couple more days though :)

{three}
This summer marks my 5th summer in Charlotte and in the previous four summers I have only made it out to a Charlotte Knights' baseball game once. It was such a long drive to allllll the way down to Fortmill for a baseball game and it pretty much wasn't worth the drive. I'm not the biggest baseball fan outside of college baseball so I haven't had much interest.

{via}

I expect that to change fairly quickly though now that the Knights' new home in uptown is complete & ready for a game. Their season kicks off {can I even use that phrase with baseball?} next Friday and I'm already looking ahead to see when the first game I can go to will be. Their new home is beautiful & I can't wait to go to a game there.

{four}
... can I go back to Savannah yet?

Here's to this summer providing a second opportunity to visit this great town. Anyone want to go?!

{five}
Tuesday night this week I got to check out my fourth Charlotte Brewery {one here & two/three here}. NoDa Brewing has been on my list and I had a perfect reason to go this week: a friend of mine from work was performing at the Ales for Autism event held there. It was such a beautiful afternoon on Tuesday and there was a good turnout for the event. It was nice to hang out with friends from work, have a couple of beers, and listen to Joe sing.

Happy FRIDAY! I hope that it is warm, sunny, and gorgeous wherever y'all are this weekend! Get outside & enjoy it :) I know that I will be!

P.S. - be sure to swing over to Virginia Sweet where my high school friend & college roommate, Ashley, is guest blogging today. Can't wait to see more posts from her!