Lately in Jersey

So yes I'm farrrr behind in blogging!  There's lots of changes going
on in the Gupta household.  Here's a little catch up...

Valentines day (yes, a month ago) was so nice.  We made dinner at
home, nick created a menu for "Cafe Academy Court", I set the table
for a romantic dinner at home and we had fun cooking together.
Sometimes its nice not to deal with a restaurant that will over charge
for a fixe price meal on Valentines Day.  We finished the night
snuggling on our couch watching our favorite shows...perfect.

 table is set!

 menu

Nick is so creative 

yummy bruschetta!

 delicious salad

salmon steaks 

 Academy Court Cafe had great service!

to die for dessert 

strawberry cake I made just for Nick!

Nick had a big adventure traveling with his Dad to Berlin for a long
weekend...leaving me here alone with Cole for 5 days, 2 of which
included a big work event at a NJ ski mountain.  Don't worry...I
survived ;)


Nick's Berlin pics:

We've been in jersey since New Years practically  every weekend except
for traveling for work and for my Nana's funeral...I am OVER winter
and over being here every weekend.  I'm getting very antsy, so we have
had some semi-local fun activities....

Flyers game in Philly followed by dinner and drinks with Allison and
Jared who came up from DC!  We had a great time hanging out with them
that Saturday...we headed back home that night in some major snowfall!

Dinner and a show in NYC...Book of Mormon!  This is the top ticket on
Broadway right now...tickets are $$$ and hard to get. It's a new show
that won a bunch of Tony awards and gets rave reviews.  I kept my eye
on Craig's list for last min tickets....narrowly missed a money card
scam....and scored great tickets for a reasonable price from a nice
older New Jersey couple! Success!! We had a mediocre dinner in the
upper west side (convinced us AGAIN that there are only a few good
restaurants north of 14th st) and saw the show.

We loved it!!  Definitely worthy of the hype. It is completely
INAPPROPRIATE and offensive...lots of cursing and basically makes fun
of the entire Mormon culture and religion as well as poverty and the
AIDS crisis in Africa.  BUT if you can take light that it's all in
good humor and remind yourself that it was written by the same writers
as the colorful adult cartoon, South Park (bom is their first stage
writing) then you will laugh your ass off and enjoy it.  The singing
is phenomenal, the acting superb, and the dancing just wonderful
while also being very funny. I am so glad we saw it early in its
tenure with the original cast...they are so talented.

Projects update....found awesome pillows for the couch at Pier 1, our
wedding photographer is working on our album, and the baskets for the
storage shelving unit has to come to a disappointing end.  I won't be
able to find baskets to fit all the different sized cubbies and still
match, so I got a custom basket quote which is $$$$ and not worth it
for the $150 ikea piece, so it stays this way for now.

I have another blog set for Thursday....stay tuned!