Wicked/Luau

Last Saturday we went and saw Wicked at the Civic Center. It was great, except for the seats. We had the stair railing in front of us so we had to slouch to see between the bars. As long as we didn't focus on the railing, we hardly noticed it, we were also sitting really far in the back. We went with Chris, Mary and Laurel. Chris made the comment as we were sitting in our seats, "If there's a sudden change in cabin pressure, air masks will drop from the ceiling..." We were about 7 rows from the very back. People around us were using binoculars. We had fun! While we were there we went ahead and bought tickets to see The Lion King in a couple of months. Apparently if you buy tickets directly at the civic center you bypass the $2.50 per ticket service charge as well as the $6.75 per ticket, ticketmaster charge. I think we'll buy from the civic center from now on.

Then tonight Peter and I went to a Luau! While honeymooning in Hawaii, we were bummed that we missed the Luau there, so Peter found one near here. It was down on Shelter Island. The food was amazing and the entertainment was great! Here's the menu:
I tried a bit of everything except the green salad, salmon and white fish. For dessert it was hard to tell what each dish was so I just grabbed one. I ended up eating pineapple upside down cake, Peter had mango cheese cake.

It was a bit dark so we didn't try to take any pictures, so here's Peter's famous stick drawings. He had to add a few "features" to his drawings, after all they were all wearing skirts. :)

As Seen on TV!

Have you ever tried these? You're supposed to be able to shove lots of stuff into a bag and then vacuum all the air out and have a nice flat pack to store. Well I was willing to give it a try.....And I like it! Now keep in mind I think they exaggerate a bit...there's no way any old regular vacuum is going to suck all the air out and make the bag flat. It's just not possible as they show in their picture on the front of the box. However it does say triple your storage space and I definitely have tripled my storage space!

Take this bag for example. It contains a queen sized winter comforter duvet.

This is what the bag looks like after I used the vacuum on it.

This bag contains one twin comforter, two twin sheet sets, 1 flannel twin sheet set, one bed skirt, two pillow shams, one queen duvet cover, and two pillow cases.

We had so much fun playing with what we could shrink we ended up shrinking the above items plus:
2 pillows, 2 baby blankets, 1 crochet throw blanket, 1 queen jersey sheet set, 1 queen fleece sheet set, 11 sweatshirts, and 5 extra blankets. I still have half of the bags left! I think it's a good sign that I'm running out of ideas of what to shrink.

Out of Order

I just got back from an interesting adventure. I went to Costco-normally an adventure, but for today I just got what I needed and left. Then I went to the gas station because I was seriously low on gas. There were three pumps on each side. I pulled in to the first spot and then noticed the lady in the second spot was leaving and the spot in front of her was open. So me being the nice person drove up to the front spot to fill up my tank. I swipe my credit card, push a few buttons and then the screen says to push the button for the grade of fuel and then remove the nozzle. Okay so far this sounds pretty normal right? So I go to grab the nozzle and....IT WASN'T THERE! I stand there a little dumb founded at the situation and clearly there was no nozzle, so I cancel the transaction, close the gas tank and pull to the other side. Here there are three stations again, two clearly marked with yellow out of service bags and the third....wait could it be???? It was missing the nozzle too. Luckily this time I noticed before putting my card into the machine. Okay slightly weird here! I pull back around to my previous side and go to the second spot and fill my tank. While I am there a lady pulls into the front spot. Her dad walks over from another pump and they start chatting. She goes to put her credit card in the machine and I tell her that the nozzle in missing. (Though I was tempted to watch and see how far she got before she noticed the missing nozzle.) They both look and start laughing. I mean really if the station is out of order they put the yellow bags around the nozzle to let everyone know not to use those pumps. Apparently they don't know what to do when nozzles go missing...no sign or anything. I think they all have hidden cameras and watch the people one after the other go and find out for themselves and bust up laughing in the background.

Two Years Later

Today we celebrated our two year anniversary! Peter bought me these pretty roses.
We went out to dinner at Marie Calendars. We were tempted by their pies, however we decided to stick with tradition. I got two miniature cakes from Edelweiss...Bavarian cream and raspberry to be exact-the same as our wedding cake. We split one and will enjoy the second one tomorrow :) I found this super cute card that totally describes me to a tee. Zoom in on the card for a good laugh...the best part is "criticized your driving skills..."

Peter got me some of my favorite gummy candies. Gummy peaches and sour gummy worms. Yes my hubby is a keeper. I picked up a memory foam mattress topper that is three inches thick. My parents have this exact kind on their guest bed that Peter and I have enjoyed. Peter has been just about nonstop talk over that mattress topper...I clued in and got it for him....for us :) It's wonderful!

We've had another wonderful wedding anniversary and look forward to many more :)