Dancing Queen

Kari's family is visiting this week which is a lot of fun!  They've been playing tourist all over the city and last night I ended up going with them to get rush tickets to see Mamma Mia.  I knew that Mamma Mia is a fun show and I had never seen it on Broadway before, only on tour.  The songs were as fun as I remembered them and I actually thought the singers were pretty good.

Kari's family with the Mamma Mia poster

We all wanted to pose with the poster and make the same motion!  Ok actually I wanted everyone to pose with the picture and make the same pose as the woman in the poster...and everyone said ok.

This is the original cast from the Tony Awards.  This is definitely not the same cast I saw but its the same music!

Subways and Groceries

For a long time Seth and I kept talking about how we wanted to go to the MTA museum.  It's close to his apartment in Brooklyn and so it always seems like a good idea.  It's a museum that is in an old subway station and basically shows the history of New York transit including buses and subways.  They have a whole sections with old subway cars from different eras (with the advertisements to match!) and they even had a section of how the turnstile has changed through the ages.  It was a pretty interesting couple of hours and I think I learned a little more about the city where I live!

Ticket please?

This was one of the old ads that made me laugh

The other crazy thing I did this weekend is I took a trip down the rabbit hole into the world of ordering things on the internet.  In NYC, one of the things one can do is order their groceries online.  I've been thinking about it for a while, but I finally decided I would try it out and maybe order some of the heavier items that I would normally not enjoy carrying back from the grocery story.  I also found some good introductory coupons so I saved quite a bit of money.  My order was delivered today!  It was pretty fun to just have someone show up at my door and then all of a sudden have a ton of food!

Groceries!

Eastergiving!

You probably know this, but over the weekend was Easter!  My roommates and I decided that since we didn't have a chance to have a roommate Thanksgiving since we all were doing our own thing, we would instead have dinner on Easter.  And thus, Eastergiving was born.  We had the best time cooking and hanging out and then eating, oh the eating!  The food was delicious and I was pretty sure I would never eat anything ever again...until it came time for dessert...

We also decorated the apartment some this weekend!

The hallway is so much more colorful now!

Our apartment is now so whimsical!

Kari also made hot cross buns for breakfast.  I've never had hot cross buns before!  They were kind of like cinnamon rolls, only in bun form.  I also didn't want a cross on mine so I got a swirl that sort of melted into a giant pool of frosting.

And then we get into the main part of Eastergiving.  We all decided to wear Easter dresses too, so that was a lot of fun.

How to make a turkey: 1. Buy a turkey 2. Put in oven for 4 hours

Peeling potatoes!

Kari making potatoes au gratin in her cute apron

Turkey!

potatoes getting ready to be mashed

mmmm turkey

mashing potatoes

Stuffing!

Monica's pretty Easter dress that she stole from Kari!

Yaaay friends!

Sitting down to a well deserved meal

And then of course there was pie.