No, not a belated anniversary, just belated blogging on the subject!
We took off Thursday and Friday of last week as a prolonged anniversary celebration. What did we do? EVERYTHING WE COULD THINK TO DO!
Wednesday evening we had dinner with our friend, Katie (who is of Irish descent) over at WB Yeats Irish Pub. Tasty! If you get lucky, the bartender there will be the one that draws shamrocks in the head on your Guinness. From there we decided to try East End Martini Bar on Franklin Street. Good drinks, hip styling and hip staff, but the music is more dance hall volume than martini bar. I'm not saying loud music is bad (I'm guilty enough of that!): I'm just saying you have to hit the right volume for the venue. In a martini bar it should provide background without masking the snatches of conversation around you (much less your own!). LOUD music is for dance clubs where it makes people move in very close to one another. In any case, though, we had fun there!
Thursday was a day trip to the beach (Wrightsville). It's the beach: of COURSE we had fun. Stopped by a Smithfield's on the way back for tasty and cheap BBQ. Yum...
Friday we started with an adventurous, hot, sweaty Geocaching hike (what did you THINK I was going to say?). Yeesh. It's not that kind of blog! Found the cache, found some chiggers. Such lovely little creatures!
Friday afternoon we drove to Greensboro to an indoor shooting range and shot fancy handguns. I'd never fired a handgun before, and Elizabeth had only shot her dad's revolver years ago, so it was a cool experience. We brought back our bullet-ridden target as a memento, named him "Steve the Stiff", and put him up temporarily on the wall. I figure if anyone tries to rob our house they'll see Steve and decide there MUST be a better place to hit down the street!
After burning through 150 rounds of ammo, we drove over to Grove Winery, sampled their offerings, discussed the merits of various oaks for barrels, and toured their facility. A bit of a varied day, no?
Saturday was a putter-around-the-house day until that evening when we went to our favorite French restaurant (Provence). I can't believe we have such a great place so close to home! We're just luckly that way!
Sunday was the day after our anniversary, so we went back to a bit more normal middle-class American lifestyle and went grocery shopping and steam-cleaned the carpet in our daughter's room. Anti-climactic? Perhaps, but after all we'd done, we were just about celebrated out!
Then again, July 4th is just around the corner... is that a second wind I feel coming on???
