A Perfect City Weekend- Casablanca, Park, First Printer, and The Aquarium

This past weekend was an epic city weekend!  I love when we jam pack our weekends with fun city adventures.

On Friday night we headed into Harvard Square to see Casablanca at the Brattle Theater.  Casablanca is our Valentine's tradition, but this year the Brattle couldn't show the movie on Valentine's Day so when we saw that it would be showing this past weekend we had to go.  If you've never seen Casablanca it is simply movie perfection.  Every scene, every piece of dialogue is perfect.  There isn't a wasted moment in the movie and the best way to watch it is on the big screen.  This time there were a lot of people in the audience who hadn't seen the movie before and it was neat to see how amazed they were when the movie ended.

After the movie we were both a little hungry so we decided to continue the evening at Park.  I've loved this place since we tried it with friends back in April.  We grabbed two seats at the bar and ordered the cheese plate and a couple of clam chowders.  Once again the service was great and the food was delicious.  I really like their chowder and it's hint of bacon running through it.

After working on my dad's house all day Saturday we met up with some friends at The First Printer in Harvard Square.  We've gone here a few times since it opened back in March.  I really love the decor and the bar.  They seem to be running slightly understaffed so the service was a bit slow but the meal was great.  Since we had eaten a late lunch I got the tomato and mozzarella salad.  I think a better name would be the tomato and mozzarella tower.  There were thick slices of red and yellow tomatoes stacked between slices of mozzarella.  The whole thing was drizzled in olive oil and balsamic and topped with three fried basil leaves.  It was delicious.  A shout out to the waitress who gave our friend an entire basket of toasted bread after she asked for some bread to go with her salad.  We were both pretty impressed.

On Sunday JO and I headed out to the Aquarium.  If you recall, this trip was planned for last weekend but the scorching temps put a stop to that.  I've gone several times in the last few years but JO has never been.  I felt it was a crime he hadn't seen Myrtle the Turtle and the other fish so off we went.  We stopped off in Faneuil Hall for noodles at Wagamma before waiting in a longer than usual line to get tickets.  The wait was worth it though because fish and seals are awesome :-)

The penguins are always a big hit

This sea lion was taking a solid nap

Sting Ray smiles

Myrtle!

Umm...this is a million ray eggs