One month anniversary

So, Anna and I celebrated our one month anniversary this past weekend. I know you’re all probably thinking what’s the big deal? Well, any small anniversary should be celebrated and I’m all for any reason to dress up and to go out for a nice meal.

Thursday was kind of a long day because we had the annual all staff in-service that lasted three hours on the evening when I would normally have off. It was fine and I learned some stuff.

Dan Schuster, my priest friend spent the weekend in DM. He came as part of his annual dinner with his fraternity brothers. John, Carola, Anna and I had breakfast with him on Saturday morning. He’s doing well and is definitely enjoying the priesthood. In so many ways, he’s the same old Dan and that’s kind of what you want. You don’t really want someone to change just because they are not a priest. Later that morning, Anna and I watched the latest Bond flick which was pretty good. After watching dramas the past weekends, it was a nice change to watch an action movie. We then got dressed and headed to Mass before going out for dinner. We ate my favorite French restaurant that I’ve not been to for a long time. I usually go there for special occasions and a one month anniversary is a special occasion. The food was excellent as always. I actually had two entrée. The first was split between Anna and I so I consider it an appetizer. It was rabbit meat which was classically prepared and it was oh so good. Anna likes ravioli and that’s what she had. I’m not a fan of it so I ended up with Guinea Fowl which taste very similar to chicken. They baked the fowl and when it came out, the skin was crispy and it was served on top of a risotto. An excellent meal, I must say. We both had desserts which was very good also. What a wonderful way to celebrate a one month anniversary!

After dinner, we went to the DM Symphony where they showed some Bugs Bunny cartoons and the symphony played classical music to the cartoons. It was an amazing experience. The program is called Bugs Bunny on Broadway and it’s been shown/performed all around the country and the world. It even had a three week sold out performance at the Sydney Opera House. Since there were cartoons, a good number of kids were in attendance and you could tell they had a blast. I loved seeing the boys all dressed up in their mini suits and girls in beautiful gowns and dresses. John, Anna and I got to sit together which was great. Talk about a great way to end the evening. I asked Anna if she wanted to do anything after the symphony and she said she was tired so we pretty much called it a night.

I met up with my friend, Alyssa from the Twin Cities on Sunday morning. She was driving back from Kansas City after attending a wedding and she decided to look me up. We had a good time catching up with one another. It’s been more than a year since we got in touch with one another. Dan celebrated Mass that morning and it so many ways, he came full circle because Drake was pretty much where he started discerning his call to priesthood. Now that he’s ordained, he came back to where it all began to celebrate Mass. People were happy to see him and I know he was happy to see a good number of people too.

There was nothing else too eventful the rest of Sunday. Work at the facility was pretty quiet which was nice. I don’t have too much going on this week/weekend. The facility has its holiday party tomorrow evening and I’ll go if my colleague at the facility is not planning on going. Our young adults will have dinner at one couple’s home and on Friday, Joel and I will be going to a classical concert at Drake. The artist is a pianist who is supposed to be really good. We shall see.