The University of Oklahoma Week 7

The Weekend
On Saturday, we all went to Syrup for breakfast.  Their pancakes are awesome. Later that day we went to the Republic Gastropub for dinner and also to Sara Sara Cupcakes for dessert.  It was an awesome day in Oklahoma City and Norman!  On Sunday, we went to Cattlemen's Steakhouse in OKC for their Breakfast Buffet and then spent time in Oklahoma City before I had to take Kirk to the airport to go back to Indiana.

Monday
This morning I worked with Windeon at Union Market on some grilled cheese recipes.  We made a guacamole bacon grilled cheese, BLT grilled cheese, brie nutella and banana grilled cheese, brie nutella and blueberry grilled cheese, a banana peanut butter nutella sandwich, a banana peanut butter nutella raspberry preserve sandwich, and a banana peanut butter nutella raspberry preserve bacon sandwich.  They were all awesome, and everyone loved them!  Windeon said that they would be featured hopefully on the new Union Market menu!

Tuesday
Today we spent the first part of our day at Headington Hall with Curtis.  He is the manager of Wagner Dining within Headington Hall.  This dining facility has only been open for a year, and it is based in a new dorm that is for freshman (a majority being athletes).  Curtis has had the opportunity to work with the Athletic Department and the Athletic Department's Registered Dietitian, Tiffany, very closely.  They have developed a lot of really neat ideas that I really appreciate from a nutrition standpoint.  They have a frozen yogurt machine, make your own smoothies, and all foods are labeled as either green, yellow, or red.  Green means eat all you want.  Yellow means limit it but you can have some.  Red means slow down and try to avoid.  At least, that is my interpretation :) .  They are also currently working on getting all of the nutrition information for their cycle menu and displaying this information for the students by the food.  I think that this is awesome, and I really like what they are doing with Wagner Dining!  Curtis has a lot of great ideas and so does Tiffany, so I cannot wait to see what all they do with this facility!  During the afternoon we met with Dot a lot and we finished up three of our projects!  Starting to check everything off of our list.

Wednesday
Today I helped Shawn Henry organize some of her inventory for the shirts of the employees and I also worked on some of the projects in our office.

Thursday 
Today we worked at Starbucks.  It was a ton of fun! The employees were awesome and a great time to work with.  We learned a lot about management, coffee, and how to be a barista!  We ended up getting thrown in to making the drinks, and it was nerve-wrecking but a lot of fun to learn!  I really enjoyed the coffee tasting, because Chris, the manager, taught us a lot about the different aspects of coffees, how it is made, what it pairs well with, etc.  In the evening we worked at Couch Cafeteria because they needed extra hands for the Camp Crimson students who were eating there.  We worked at Chick-Fil-A and it was so crazy busy the entire time we were there! I don't think I had a second to even think.  Then we went back to Starbucks in the evening to work with them for the Camp Crimson Retro Night.  We made a ton of tea and then gave the students samples throughout the evening.

Getting ready for retro night!

The late night crew! :)

Friday
Today we worked at Starbucks again and it was just like the first day, and I loved it!  After work we went with some of the employees to the Library and got the best pizza and pot roast nachos ever! It was delicious!