Recent movies

I went to see Super 8 this weekend... loved it! Although it dragged a bit in the beginning, for the most part, I thought it was great, the kids were great, and I especially liked this character...



And of course it did not hurt to have Coach Taylor, AKA Kyle Chandler...



Another movie I really liked from this spring was Win Win.

And of course, Bridesmaids, which was hilarious. As usual, I would say that Judd Apatow needs to remember that comedies are 90 minutes for a reason. But really funny, and one of the funniest endings I have seen in a while. Kristen Wiig. She can do no wrong.

I couldn't be less interested in the superhero and comic book movies that are coming out now... but I am very excited for this one...



It looks cute and funny, and I love....



LOVE...



Really LOVE...



Really like...



But... unfortunately...really can't stand....



She's in Anne Hathaway territory for me. But I'll still see it. No blue make-up involved, so I hope it is good.

Scandinavia day 3

DAY THREE.... Woke up in Denmark.

Copenhagen Central Station
Took the train to Malmø, Sweden. It goes over this bridge.



We got off the train and saw this sight.... yes, another biking city.


Here's a bike counter, which says, "Cyclists today." The line to the right says how many bicylces rode down this street in 2010, to the left is the goal for 2011.

Some random church near the train station.

While Julia went to see a play (the reason Julia went to Malmø ), I looked around. Then we met up again afterwards.

Looking around Lilla Torg

This is Osthuset (translation: Cheese house.... we are cheese lovers!!)


We ate at this cute little restaurant.
Saw this bakery... but it was closed. (would it be possible to get a cupcake during my journey?)
After a short, but fun day in Sweden, we took off..... and went to bed that night in Norway!!

Glee quote of the week -- Season finale

I'm not really into the Royal wedding stuff, but...

Curt: " I'm spending my summer composing 'Pip Pip hooray.' Hit Broadway musical about Pippa Middleton. "

Number of the week -- Light up the world

Still the best number of the season.... Teenage Dream.

Glee quote of the week 5/17

Just getting to the final two episodes of Glee... thank goodness or DVR.

Curt and Finn bring Sue Sylvester flowers after her sister dies...
Sue: "There were more arrangements, but I had to throw some of them out. I'm allergic to pansies. And I don't mean that as a swipe at either of you."

Number of the week: Santana singing "Back in Black."

Scandinavia day 2

Day two, we got up and tried to figure out how to downtown (our hotel was in the equivalent of Washington Heights, as far as I was concerned). Julia did some google maps thing, and figured out a bus route, but it turned out that her computer thought she was still in Utah and told us to take a bus that only runs at night. Of course, we didn't know this until we walked our legs off and got lost during a marathon happening in the city. We finally found our way downtown. (is that what they call it in Copenhagen? I don't know, but that is what I call it.) We took a little tourist ferry through the canals of Copenhagen.

This little white house on the harbor was where Hans Christian Anderson lived at one time.

This is the top of the old World Trade Center in Copenhagen -- the three crowns represent Denmark, Sweden & Norway.

You probably can't tell, but this spire is comprised of four dragons with their tails intertwined.

This is the Copenhagen Opera house.

Here's the back of Den Lille Havfruen. I only saw it from the back, from the ferry.

Everyone rides bikes around town because it's a super flat city, plus, we discovered that so much of the city are walking streets and therefore the buses don't go there.

That night, we went to play, which was the reason that Julia went to Copenhagen in the first place. It was a play from China, and it was pretty much the longest, most painful 70 minutes of my life....And that's saying something since I had surgery this year!!

And that's pretty much day two!

Scandinavia Day 1

As you probably already know, I just spent about a week and a half in Scandinavia. The low-down is that my former roommate Julia and I talked about taking a trip together for several years. She did her mission in Sweden and I was in Norway, so we figured we should go back together. It took a while, but we finally did it. She had a work assignment in Copenhagen and Malmø in Sweden, so I planned to go over, freeload at her hotel, and hang out like a European while she worked. Despite being so close to Norway, I didn't plan to go there because I wanted to only go places I haven't been. But of course, the more I thought about it, the more I decided I wanted to, and Julia also wanted to see a bit of Norway. So... it turned into a much bigger deal than originally planned.

Day one, we arrived in Copenhagen, checked into our hotel, and went downtown. Our first stop was lunch. In reading my Rick Steves guide, I learned that the locals eat their lunch from these little hot dog trucks. Since I was down with being a European for the week, I was down with eating like a local. (Another way that I went local? ... didn't bring a razor.) While Julia and I stood in line, I was reading to her what Steves says about the different kinds of dogs you can get. Julia got it in her mind that she wanted one kind of dog in one kind of bun. Somehow, she pointed to the dog she wanted and the bun she wanted... and ended up with two hot dogs. It started the week off with lots of laughs. For me, anyway.

This is my dog... which was more of a sausage, wrapped in bacon. It was gooooood....

After lunch, we ventured off to the main shopping area, Strøget.

We stumbled across Vor Frue Kirke and went in. Julia informed me that I have heard about this church for years in General Conference. She's probably right.

The original Christus statue.
This sign says "This is my beloved Son, Hear him."

On both sides of the Christus statue are the 12 apostles. Here is Peter, with the keys of the priesthood. Read more and see much better pictures than mine here.

After this, we went home and had bad pizza and went to bed.

Day two coming soon...

Parks and Recreation

I'm catching up on some Parks and Recreation episodes. This show has gotten so funny, I'm considering adding it to my quote of the week feature. Here is one from the episode on 5/12.

Leslie: "we need to remember what is important in life. Friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter. But work is third."

See what I mean?