NYC Success!

Saturday morning Sketchy and I woke up on the couch in the basement. We have been so tired from the last few weekends of travel it's not even funny. 

I woke up slightly earlier than Sketchy to make some football goodies for his VT game. As he was turning on the game, I brought down the food much to his surprise. We had tons of frozen items leftover from last football sunday. 

jalapeno popper dip (immersion blender obsession)

bbq chicken pizza for sketchy and fish sticks for me

cheesy tots!

He was surprised to see all the food. =) His game went well, thank god! After the game, we headed down to his parents to spend the night. Sapna and his mom went with us to NYC so we figured it'd be easier to just leave from their place really early sunday morning.

Sunday was super successful in NYC. We went to two areas that are notorious for selling indian outfits and such. I got my bridal outfit wayyyy under budge. If nothing, that alone was worth the trip up there!

skirt/bottom of bridal outfit

bridal outfit. the top is the shawl that goes over my head -- i'm going to get a top made. i love it so much. =)

We were unable to find a reasonably priced outfit for sketchy to match my outfit. Men's sherwanis are much easier to find online though. Sizes are also easier to figure out and such so we should be fine with that!

I got a yellow saree which i'll wear for my pre-wedding ceremony on Saturday.

also got BM sarees. This color looks a little more blue than it is. It's actually a greenish color with gold and copper details. 

We were not able to find groomsmen outfits, mainly because they're done by size and sketchy didn't have everyone's size. Those i believe should be easy to get online as well. Think we'll just go with a general bronze plain kurta for the guys. 

because things were super cheap, i got an extra saree i just thought was pretty! i'm sure there will be some event i can wear this to.

While looking for bm shoes, we happened upon an awesome shoe store. I got the two shoes below and sapna got a couple.

love these ones!

these are a soft suede material in person.

Tonight we stayed home and made deliciousness:

sketchy has been on an asparagus and fingerling potatoes kick lately. The international store by us has these things for so cheap. The lamb was, as always, tastey. Sketchy's getting super good at grilling them to the perfect level!

Sketchy actually ate a lamb chop today! such progress. When i met him, he basically only ate chicken. He's now, on his own, asking for lamb and will totally eat seafood -- sometimes it has to be hidden, but he did fish tacos! we're moving on up.