14th Anniversary

Yesterday Amy & I celebrated 14 years of marriage by grabbing dinner and a movie while Amy's dad and step-mom watched the kids. I know...dinner and a movie is not that creative a way to celebrate, but the last time we had a chance to do that as a date night was exactly one year earlier, so it was a novelty for us.

We went to Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Action adventure for me, Johnny Depp for Amy. It was good, but not quite up to the standard of part 1. I'll wait to pass judgment fully until part 3 comes out since part 2 was totally a setup movie along the lines of The Empire Strikes Back. Some of the action sequences were a bit drawn out and there's a few implausible questions (i.e. plot holes) that I think deserve some explanation, but for the most part, we enjoyed it.

We followed the movie up with dinner at Sushi Masa, a Japanese place downtown, only about five blocks from home. The atmosphere was pretty cool with secluded feeling booths and dim lights. Our booth happened to be right across from the kitchen entrance though, so there was a lot of traffic where we were at. It was probably a good thing, because the food took forever to get to us. We also sat where Amy had a good view of the food prep. I think she was somewhat in awe of the lady doing the final prep on the sushi as she applied her craft. Our server was fairly new at the job and really was a nice guy and very polite. He wasn't so helpful in helping us order since he was a vegetarian, but we didn't hold that against him.

We do think we've discovered where the theater crowd works though. There were several obviously gay servers and we got to hear quite a bit from them as they were in and out of the kitchen. In order to avoid collisions, they would say, "Coming out." when they left the kitchen, which I thought was rather appropriate.

We ordered sushi and fried food just to cover the extremes of the menu and shared the two meals. This was only the second time I had had sushi and it was good for the most part. There really only were one or two bites that I could have done without, but I am firm believer in nothing ventured, nothing gained. We left the restaurant full but with no ill effects from our uncooked banquet. Amy said that it was not a place that she would go to on a weekly basis, but I would absolutely like to make a return visit at some point.