morning nap, afternoon walk

After such an astoundingly late night, I am frankly surprised that I managed to rise at 8:30am, get up, and shower. Of course, I was planning to go into the city so I needed to be up. Tessa and I changed our mind though and decided not to go out and slept in for a while. Actually, I woke her up after my shower an she slept for a little while I went online. Then we switched and I took a morning nap while she went online and out to get bagels. If we were real roommates she would definitely get an award for being awesome. Anyway, after we ate breakfast/lunch we went for a walk around town and it was sprinkling but still really nice especially since we had umbrellas. At the dollar store, we super hero coloring books and got them since that is a great rainy day activity. When we got back from our walk, we watched Serendipity and ate a early dinner before we met up with a friend of Tessa's. We hung out in town and then watched funny YouTube videos to cheer the friend up who was having a bad day. The day ended with frozen yogurt and the beginning of Tintin. No pictures but check back tomorrow for a great adventure since I'm going back to 5th Avenue (hopefully with less rain).

Always,
Jillian

P.s. I learned more interesting things about New Jersey teens. For example, if your under 18 you have to put tags on your car that recognize you as under 18 because you cannot drive past 11pm legally.

the dark knight rises premiere

Today was a crazy day!  Well not really.  After two long days in the city Tessa and I slept in until about noon today.  When we woke up we ate breakfast and polished the silver for her mom before starting our Christopher Nolan Batman marathon.  Our marathon was fantastic and so much fun!  Definitely a smart thing to do if you haven't watched the movies in a while and plan to see the newest one.  Anyway, after that we got ready to go out to the midnight premiere in the next town over.  We went to the movie theater and asked what time is a good time to line up and get tickets. I was surprised to learn that in the small town you didn't to arrive until about two hours before the show starts.  That is crazy! Not only could we have gotten tickets the day of, but we didn't have to line up as early as you would think.  In Arizona, it is not uncommon to line up in the afternoon and get seated around 9pm.  In Westfield, where we were, most of the moviegoers arrived about 30 minutes before the show.  The theater seriously had a total of five other people an hour before the show.  Oh, and there were tons of boys there! Big groups of them arrived and somehow they all seemed to know each other.  The movie was fantastic though and I won't give away anything but the cast was phenomenal and I would like to see it again and hope it comes out by Christmas so I can ask for all three of the movies for Christmas!  I highly suggest you see the movie.

Always,
Jillian

This is a Lego Batman at F.A.O Schwartz from the day before.  I was so excited by it.

lazy day in cranford

After the wild adventure of yesterday, today was a lazy day in Cranford, New Jersey.  I slept in late and then went to the comic book store in town.  They had like fifteen boxes of fifty-cent comics and I went through half of them and found four comics that I wanted to get.  I also saw some really odd comics that I would never think to get, especially the twice removed spin-off comic books that star Wonderman and She-HULK (seriously?!?).  There were also some really weird anime style ones and just comical awkward titles and characters.  It was weird and exciting.  Once I was done at the comic book store, I made dinner for the family I was staying with.  I made chicken enchiladas and they were quite delicious.  Except there isn't exactly a "mexican food isle" at a grocery store here and the selection is very limited so I had to use Chi Chi brand enchilada sauce which I don't think has the same taste as what I use in Arizona.  But, I couldn't change the situation even though they have isles of tomatoes in New Jersey and like three feet of mexican ingredients most of which are taco shells and spanish rice.  The enchiladas still tasted good though and after dinner I went with Tessa to visit friends at Starbucks in the next town.  They were really nice and I enjoyed meeting them.  When we got home from coffee we watched the second Sherlock Holmes movie with one of her friends and it was intense.  Not only did we stop the movie every five minutes to collaborate and discuss what was happening the movie was just extraordinary.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it.  I would also recommend seeing the first one (which I haven't yet) because it is supposed to make somethings more understandable in the movies.  My adventure ended after the movie and now I'm just blogging about my day while getting distracted by infographics on-line. No pictures today but check tomorrows post since I'll be going into the city again and exploring Hoboken.

Always,
Jillian    

P.s.  My day with real New Jersey-ans taught me so about New Jersey and what I don't have in Arizona including Funny Bones which are a Hostess-like brand chocolate cake filled with peanut butter cream that they prefer to eat frozen.  Also, they refer to Arizona Ice Tea as "an Arizona" mostly because what else would they refer to as Arizona in New Jersey.