Our Anniversary

On Saturday, Dan and I celebrated our 6th anniversary. The weather was beautiful! We couldn't have asked for a better day. Dan made us a delicious breakfast. I had french toast and strawberries and he had french toast with cream cheese and smoked salmon. Then Kathie and Ed (our landlords) came up to work on the yard with us. We made some great progress out in the front. There is still a lot more to do though. Kathie put in a few new plants and flowers for us and told us about the existing flowers and plants. They felt really bad once they found out it was our anniversary, but that was what we had planned on doing anyway.

After a afternoon out in the yard we headed downtown for dinner. We decided to go to a place called Etta. Etta's is a seafood restaurant owned by Tom Douglas. He owns 5 or 6 restaurants and also makes Dan's favorite spice rub. Before dinner we went down to Pike's place and headed over to Chez Shea for appetizers. We went there for our anniversary 2 years ago and it was delicious. Saturday we had a Kobe style tartar and escargot. I had never had escargot and didn't care for it too much. I did eat my three pieces though so I feel I gave it a fair chance. After appetizers we headed over to Etta's. The store next door had signs in the window saying "We are having a sale... Like everyone else" Well that was enough to get us in the door. It was a pretty modern home decor store so not really up our alley. But they had some beautiful artwork. After looking around we decided on a painting of a red poppy. We are going to hang it on the wall as you walk in the front door. It will look really nice once we get the door repainted. It will hopefully tie in with the red door. Since we were on our way to dinner we made arrangements to pick it up this week. So I will be headed down later this morning to get it. Dan and I are both really excited to see how it works in the spot we picked out.
We had a nice leisurely dinner. We started with a platter of oysters. We tried out 6 different ones. They we all pretty good. After that we shared a Cesar salad and jumbo prawns. All of which was excellent. For dinner Dan had the Sake Salmon and I had the Crab Cakes. They were the best crab cakes either one of us had had. Mostly all crab and just light and perfectly cooked. It was a great evening spent with the man of my dreams.