Mom

• She speaks Danish and spent her summers there
• She loves chocolate immensely
• Bruce Springsteen is her ultimate celebrity crush
• She's a huge science geek and majored in biochem in college
• She adores shopping, but hates malls
• Cary Grant is her favorite actor
• She is extremely electronically inept and barely knows how to use her digital camera
• She is an awesome cook and love experimenting
• She hates olives
• Italy is her favorite country, though she is not a bit Italian
• She's one of the most assertive women I know and isn't afraid of telling someone when she is unhappy (completely non-bitchily, though)
• She loves coffee and always tries different creamer combinations

Dad

• He loves old movies, like Casablanca and North by Northwest
• He has a huge record collection he keeps in the sunroom
• He likes to keep himself informed and reads the newspaper all of the time
• He often does Ted Kennedy impressions
• He does yoga and often goes running
• He gets fashion magazines in the mail because the companies think he owns a hair salon
• He would love to spend his time relaxing at home all of the time.
• He's a huge American history nerd who reads FDR and Harry Truman biographies all of the time.