Some more spring pictures

Spring has been beautiful in Cambridge, and around, and here are some pictures I took:

Sam and I had a picnic in Cambridge Common:

We also went to PorchFest in Somerville with some friends who live there and watched a band play across the street:

Work training in New York

I went on a work training trip to NYC in early May, and it was pretty cool. I got to stay in a fancy hotel room:

And I got to order room service for the first time in my life:

I think I need more fresh squeezed orange juice in my life. Also I got this at the hotel restaurant, which was not that delicious but was ok:

Then after the training, on the way to the airport for the flight back, I saw this funny load on a truck:

I hope those two little chairs weren't too heavy for that huge truck!

There were turkeys outside our apartment building!

A male and a female, and they were huge! The next day, the male showed up at the building's front door, but was gone by the time I got my camera.

Happy spring!

This picture is from way back in January, when it was terrible weather and I went running and got snow on my head:

I hate winter! Come on spring!

New Orleans

It has really big cars (this picture didn't really turn out, but you can see how much bigger the car is than I am:

Also (and this is the point) New Orleans has a great friend:

It also has weird food. This is vegetarian, but not delicious:

Back in March, we visited friends in California

We went to a farmer's market and there were free samples, including oranges:

There were also tomoatoes:

We hung out in San Mateo:

There were some cool flowers:

We walked around this pretty town:

We had brunch:

More walking:

More flowers:

We finally saw Book of Mormon!

We'd been looking forward to it for 3 years, and we'd memorized all the songs, and we finally got to see it when it came to Boston! Sam got the tickets for me as a Christmas present, so I also got to look forward to it for 4 months. We went with two of our friends, and then went out for dessert afterwards. The show completely lived up to the extremely high expectations we had! It was amazing! It was really fun knowing the songs because sometimes it's a little hard to hear the words when you're at a theater, but we didn't miss anything because we already knew the jokes. I thought that was a plus, since I've also tried not listening ahead of time to the music for a musical I'm excited about, and then you miss things and won't get another chance to appreciate them in the context of seeing the show. There were also a number of jokes that weren't part of the songs, and some other jokes that you couldn't get from just the words of the songs, but depended on visual parts of the show to be as funny as they were. Also, the dancing was fantastic! I can't recommend this show enough, if you like funny things and music. Obviously I don't have any pictures of the show, but here are some from the theater afterwards and from the dessert: