The day started out, as it usually does, with "waking up" our cockatiel, Penny. After I took her out of her cage I set up a few new Easter toys that I picked up during a trip to the Bird Shoppe last week. She's always freaked out by new toys at first, but she quickly took a liking to this one:
All it is is shredded, curled drinking straws, but she has since spent several hours on top of her cage chewing on the delicious plastic.
Once Penny settled in and started playing with her new toys, Nick and I had a tasty breakfast of blueberry pancakes that he was nice enough to make. Of course, Penny got her mini-pancake too, which was even more delicious than the new toy.
We relaxed in the apartment for a little while, then I suggested we go check out the Krohn Conservatory. It is one of those places that I keep reading about but haven't had a chance to go to yet, and it seemed like a good Easter-y activity. It was indeed a great idea, but one that many others also thought of. It was really crowded with families and couples, taking pictures, walking really slowly, doing what they do. Even though there were tons of people it was still really nice and we enjoyed ourselves.
In the flower room, with all the people.
Later in the evening we started dinner. We are by no means very fancy cooks, but I think we do OK. I only know how to make a few things, but have been trying to learn to cook more, but Nick is really quite good in the kitchen. We had lamb roast with an apple, mint, and shallot sauce, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, and garlic mashed potatoes with bleu cheese crumbles, and we washed it down with some cider.
It was sooooo good. I also made cinnamon cookies for dessert, which we enjoyed while watching Gilmore Girls.
Even though we couldn't make it home for Easter we still had a really nice day. It was very relaxing and tasty all around and was exactly the kind of break I needed from grad school decisions and funding issues and the like. But that is a story for another post.
I hope you all had a great Easter!
