Very Cherry

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It looks like the last time I wrote on here was at the end of March, when I mentioned we were going to see the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra. We ended up not doing that, as we weren't feeling well that day. We did go out on the following weekend, on a short trip to Secaucus to walk on the Marsh Trail and eat at the Olive Garden.

They had a strawberry cheesecake, and I brought home a piece of that. Easter was pretty uneventful, although we did watch a few things on the days before it.

And this past weekend, we went to see John Waters in Atlantic City. Beth's Uncle John was originally supposed to go with it, but he didn't feel up to it, so we brought Dorothea instead. Waters' show was much the same as the Christmas one, except obviously without as much of a focus on that holiday. He did mention it, though, as part of his monologue was about reinventing holidays. It was actually his birthday, and we all sang to him after he had finished. We had seats on barstools on the balcony. Before the show, we went to a few souvenir stores on the Boardwalk. I haven't been there in some time, but were the stores always so focused on smoking paraphernalia? They probably were, but vaping wasn't as much of a thing back then. I really don't consider the two particularly different, but this is coming from someone who's never tried either one and doesn't want to. We had trouble finding a place to eat afterwards. Google Maps said a diner was open, but it wasn't. We ended up going to Chickie's & Pete's, which neither of us had been to before. Beth had wanted to try the crab fries, but ended up not ordering them. That place is a lot more expensive than I would have thought. I had a pizza, and they put the sauce on top of the cheese. I think there's some kind of local New York pizza like that as well, but I've never seen the appeal. It's messy enough with the cheese on top. I'll probably end up having my leftovers for dinner tonight. We were also somewhat unhappy with Friendly's the previous night, as they changed their mozzarella sticks to ones that aren't as good. We just found out today that the normal mini mozzarella sticks are unavailable due to supply chain issues. Is there a cheese ship stuck in a canal somewhere? Seriously, I keep thinking I should make a log of where I do and don't like the fried cheese. I've noticed that it tends to be better when the cheese is stretchy and it uses a breadcrumb batter.

Yesterday, we went to Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where the cherry trees are in bloom. It isn't peak season yet, but they were still quite pretty.

And when we stopped at the Japanese Hill and Pond Garden, I saw a few turtles.

There were also koi, but the water was too murky for me to get decent pictures of them. I also got a comment on Instagram about this bush, so I'm sharing that here as well.

When we got home, I played Animal Crossing just long enough to collect the star fragments I'd wished for on Monday. Over the weekend, I finished the Fort Dragonia part of Chrono Cross, which means I'm officially farther along now than I got back when I played it twenty or so years ago. I'll probably write something about that pretty soon. Also on Tuesday, we watched the Simpsons and Bob's Burgers episodes we'd missed on Sunday. The ending of the Simpsons suggests that Kerry Washington's character will continue on as Bart's teacher, but I have no idea if they're going to stick with that. It had looked like they were trying to make Ned Flanders his regular teacher, but he wasn't even in that episode as far as I can remember.