Moot Thoughts & Musings

Yesterday was our Fourth Anniversary.

Somehow it felt bigger this year. More momentous. This has been a year of a lot of growing for us. Then there is all these life changes. I'm very thankful that I've got the best husband in the world! :-)

Last night we went into center city Philly to a really fab-o Italian restaurant just off of South St. In some ways, it felt weird to be driving around Philly, not an unfamiliar place, in our car with Louisiana plates. Like it still hasn't sunk in that we're not on vacation. We both really like this city and were happy to find such a great restaurant. We shared an appetizer plate that was like a salad of calamari, mussels, salmon, shrimp and other seafoody things and a spinach salad with a raspberry dressing. Then we shared a plate of gnocchi with red peppers. So good! I had filet mignon with a mushroom sauce and Chris had prosciuto wrapped veal. The entrees came with a side of gnocchi (which had an interesting tomato sauce--at first it seemed fairly straightforward, but the after taste was kind of spicy) and spinach, which was so good! Probably sauteed with garlic. Too full for dessert, but we had coffee; I actually got an espresso, which was a little disappointing. It wasn't "brace yourself I'm for real coffee" kind of espresso. It just tasted like strong coffee. We brought a bottle of wine. I had a couple of sips; very good, wish I coulda drunk more, but I drank like a liter of Pellegrino (and went to the bathroom about a hundred times). We left two and a half hours later very satisfied with our dining experience. I love food, and I love it when I get to go to a place with really good food. And I love finding a good Italian restaurant, which is harder than you might think. It made me think of last summer's wild dining in Italy.

Afterwards we walked around the park in Rittenhouse Sq. Five years ago after we had first met and fallen in love, we had spent a dreamy evening there. It was fun to go back.