Kacey's Visit

Before we both start our summer programs and become super busy, Kacey came for a visit.  Here's a rundown of the exciting things that we did:

Wednesday:

• Kacey arrived
  
• We got Starbucks and hung out in the park (there are no Starbucks in CT, where Kacey lives, so usually she gets it like 30 times when she visits, but this was our only visit because it's so ridiculously expensive)
  
• I made a slightly bizarre, but okay dinner (in my kitchen! yay!)
  
• We went and got Rice to Riches, which is this amazing restaurant that only serves many variations of rice pudding (banana, tiramisu, coconut, pomegranate, rocky road, cinnamon raison, mango, chocolate chip, french toast, etc...)
  

• We watched So You Think You Can Dance.  Kacey loved it.  Mostly, she loved Mary's cackling...

Thursday:

• Made brunch.  Thank you, Target, for making Chocolate Raspberry pancake mix.
• We went to Texas.  Texas on Tour, that is.  Apparently, the Texas Tourism people thought that a really great way to boost their tourism would be to embark on a countrywide tour that gives everyone a free taste of Texas, complete with interactive 3-d video kayak tours, videos and trivia games, live musicians, hot sauce, Seaworld animals (which we unfortunately missed) and green screen pictures.  To see Kacey and I "hanging" around with a local Texan bull, click here.  
• We got dinner at Stand, a really great local burger place that serves delicious milkshakes (Toasted Marshmallows, anyone?) and makes their own mayo and ketchup
• Finished off the day with Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, a movie that I love, but that others seem to find as lacking a satisfying plot.

Friday:

• I had a brilliant idea: Brooklyn Botanical Garden!  Unfortunately we missed the full bloom season, but we still got to see a lot of cool stuff.... A japanese garden complete with koi fish and turtles in a pond shaped like the symbol for heart, Shakespeare garden, which features all of the flowers that he ever mentioned in writing, Fragrance Garden, where you get to smell the flowers, Cranford Rose Garden, Rock Garden (lame), Bonzai Museum, among other things. Below is the only picture I took of a black/purple flower.

• Met Carrie for dinner at Pomodoro, this pizza place that is known for their vodka sauce pizza.  It was amazing and I highly recommend it.
• Took a stroll through Little Italy, where there was some sort of festival going on, and Kacey and I had our first ever fried Oreos.
• Finished off the night (and Kacey's visit) with Slumdog Millionaire.  Well, she watched, while I napped...