May 1&2

We're still hanging chill at home, so I thought I'd do a quick update of the past couple of days. We had a leisurely morning on Friday of simple breakkies, John went out for a run and then we took the car in for an oil change. After having a small lunch at Applebee's (using John's winning certificate courtesy of the Twins), we connected with our best pal Chris to go see Wolverine (not horrible, but not great, either) at the Rosedale cinema. Deciding it was best to not drive him home in rush hour traffic, we opted to hang at Leaning Tower of Pizza for some 'Za and sodas. Off to home where we were so pooped out and still stiff from the walk at the Arboretum, we crashed out watching the game on the couch and subsequently missed the public sky viewing at the astronomy lab that I'm sure was quite cool, the theme being "Galaxies & Dark Matter". We'll have to catch the next one.

May 2, our anniversary, started a little rocky for me. Vesta, our naughtly little monkey-cat, has this habit of walking on me all night long. So she's been really active the past 5 nights or so, and my crankiness at the lack of sleep just cannot be hidden at this point. So even though I meant to get up early and get a jump on the day (as I've been meaning to for the past 5 or so days) I was so freakin' tired I had to just sleep in. Although, I do remember Hubby coming in and singing the "Happy Anniversary" song to me that made my morning :)

When I finally did surface, Hubby was already planning another run (the man is a jogging machine lately! You go, my Love!) so I decided to do the Wii workout. John made us yummy smoothies and sammies, and we lazed around until 2 o'clock when we headed out to see our friend dance in the Festival of Nations! It was really cool, and I hadn't been to the FoN since my dad used to perform in it (many moons ago) and John had never been there. It's like the State Fair, but way better food and wares. We watched the Japanese, Egyptian, Hungarian, Scottish and Dutch dances at the main stage. Our friend danced in the Egyptian set and their troupe was excellent! She'd told us, "Sparkly ladies with canes!" and she was right; they were very sparkly! Of course, the Egyptians do it with such flash that it's hard to beat their routine :) Although, the Hungarian (and anything Balkan) routines have a special place in my heart since that was my dad's speciality.

I sampled Chicken Curry with Rice and Roti at the Pakistani booth while John went back to the Motherland (Norway) and sample the Viking in a Blanket (saugage in lefse). Later, we sampled the Samosa's from Somalia, very delectable! I love African spices, so earthy but not hot. We caught up with our sparkly cane lady in the food area and wandered around looking at the wares and wishing we all made more money with which to purchase cool stuff. We caught some musicians from India, Hungaria, Spain and Ireland who were all impressive. Then off to catch the Egyptians in their second (and different) dance set of the day. Again, awesome! After that the Chilean and Korean musicians played some incredible music that provoked almost every child seated to get up and start a furious little swirling dance reminiscent of a May Pole dance :) It was just cute.

Deciding that our anniversary celebration wasn't quite complete, we later went to The Loop for dinner to support our local neighborhood establishments. We enjoyed a very romantic dinner of walleye and chicken sammies (with, ahem, salad instead of fries) in a cushy booth, a cosmo martini & beer in hands, and marveled at our 11 years of marital bliss :) YAY!

Anyway, next post should be from Grand Marais! Whoo-hoo!