Cookies and the NYC experience

I've yet again completely forgotten about the existence of this blog. I started writing about the NYC trip but the photos would not upload properly so I just dismissed the entire post out of agitation. Nevermind, it was an awesome trip and I even surprise myself with the feeling that I really want to visit that place again ...but D.C. is definitely next on my USA list.

 

Magnolia's bakery's cupcakes in Central Park! Bliss :D 

 

The (apparently) infamous Strand bookshop- quite amazing how I left the place with only six items...

 

 I'd actually never had a bowl of chilli in my life. Super tasty!

Cherry blossoms :)

  

Prospect park botanical gardens. cutest bonsai tree ever at the bonsai museum.

Brunch at McD. Well, it had to be done semi-Amurrrican style. I ordered water just to bastardise the whole experience. Didn't eat for another 6 hours... Bleh..

Museum of Modern Art- such a cool place with the wittiest things I've ever seen... This is me pointing out the shot after being told by the clerk where on the wall it actually was. He must be doing this 500 times a day at _least_ judging by peoples' confused faces...

..and finally one of the finest parts of our trip- Highline Park! Located in the Meatpacking district this is a fine gem that is absolutely worth seeing.Basically this is currently a park with rail roads elevated over the streets next to the Hudson river where they used to transport goods from the ports into the city. The rails are still there as you can see with the addition of greenery, benches and lights. It's a free tourist attraction, but people actually hang out here too. There was also a projector screening short films and art projects to the wall of one of the buildings free for people to sit down and watch. Super cool!

[YAY, the post is actually saving this time! Now I can move on..!]

So out of nowhere our kitchen oven started working again. My face went:
Really????!!

 and so I started to catch up with the baking I have missed out on for 6 months... Not only have I been craving 'rosinboller' for half a lifetime, I still had not been able to try out a single recipe from the book I got from Ina and Sara last Christmas!



I made these lovelies yesterday and I am counting on my flatmates helping out with the eating...!
Oreo cheesecake cookies :))

Might blog again some time soon when I get tired of exam revision. It's going to be a dull month I can tell (except for the abundance of sunlight of course- liking that part quite a lot!)


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The past few weeks have been rather hectic even without any of those dreadful deadlines. Karoline and I have had anatomy-dates in the kitchen, had sushi for dinner three times a week, almost finished another litre of soy sauce and pretty much worked our asses off. We even had a pre-party before going out to the rowing team's fundraising night and I'm rather intrigued to see the photos I took with my Diana camera once I get the film developed :p

Here's to silly lime faces!

 

...and prominent forearm flexor muscles!

I've been climbing on Mondays and worn my palms out every time and spent minimal time on thinking about the NYC trip- which I will get back to. I've also been very excited about what's going on back home with my little pregnant friend who is not pregnant at all any more :) I was super happy to hear about Victoria and Stian's newborn baby girl on April 1st! 

So the past few Saturdays I've been going to these walking tours around Krakow! One was about communism in Krakow where they took us to Nowa Huta which is a place that was specially built to be a typical communistic town ~30 mins outside the city centre. Learned a little about life in the 50's and onwards, steel factories,  concrete buildings, gangs and pigs and chicks being sold out of car trunks!

General architecture in Nowa Huta

 

Was interesting to hear about how nobody actually knows the names of the streets in this part of the city because the apartment complexes were organised into concrete neighbourhoods which were given separate names such as the "cute" block. I should have taken a photo of the building overview maps to show how the building numbers weren't organised very well either with blocks going from 1-4 in a straight line, then suddenly a building number 12 showing up next to the number 4 then continuing on to number 5 etc. Strange but interesting tour!

The other one was around the Jewish ghetto area from the war. We walked all the way to a site where there used to be a labour camp (Plaszów) a bit into the suburbs. It was really worth seeing with a guide as he showed us pictures of how the place used to look and told stories about the now completely deserted field which just looks like a grassy hill with hardly any traces of the Holocaust left. I didn't take any photos, mainly because the weather was insane with rain and coldness surrounding us wherever we went. The hot chocolate at the end was much longed for!

So as you can see it went from being summery to spring-y to a true winter day when it actually snowed (!) on Sunday- while Marte and Magnus came to visit.

 

Snow in the air!?

Despite the weather we were just chilling out with tasty food, courageous walks around town in the cold and a bit of shopping at the mall. My New York essentials are all bought and almost packed now! Just got to make a packed lunch for tomorrow and wait for the lovely Agata to come over to crash for the night on her way home  from Edinburgh :)

By the way- I got a hair cut the other day ^^ Might show it off later...  So long!

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