Sunday, September 25, 2005
Why, it's our anniversary!Today is our sixth anniversary. How fortunate that S is home right now,
and how wonderful! Tonight we are going to a new restaurant that is
supposed to be spectacular, Alinea,
for a very late dinner. We couldn't get a reservation until 9. Last
year we were living in New Orleans and spent our anniversary at Le Pavillon,
a classic hotel that serves peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches and hot coco in the lobby late into the night, and had
dinner at the world famous Galatoire's
in the Quarter. The food was, well, okay, but the atmosphere! My god.
Really, everyone who visits New Orleans ought to go there once.
Hopefully one day both the hotel and the restaurant will again serve
eager guests in the top-notch way they have for over a century. 4:44:41 PM | We've been doing all the things we love to do together (some too secret to write in a blog - ha!) and having loads of fun doing them. Yesterday we saw Penn State, one of S's alma maters, beat Northwestern 34-29. It was all the more sweet because as an alum of U of I, I love ot see Northwestern beaten by any team at all, and because the game was full of late-quarter drama with the Lions squeaking out a victory in the last ten minutes or so. Plus it was one of those dreary early fall days, not to cold, with the threat of rain all afternoon. Lucky for us the sky didn't open up until we were waiting in line for the shuttle bus back to downtown Evanston. And Penn State won! Did I mention that already? Friday night we went to the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum and hooked up with our friend Luis who had a piece in their exhibit in honor of Carlos Chavez, a Chicago artist and activist who died last year. Afterwards, we went to Flo for delicious nouveau Mexican. The place is owned by a couple of local artists who we know by a degree or two of separation. It's intimate and fun and the food is fab (plus it's definitely in our budget). The joy never ends.  Here's S in front of the score board. Ah, sweet victory.  Here's Luis next to his piece. Unfortunately, the museum didn't hang it on the wall, so it was hard to see that on the front of the doors there were also images, skeletons of the coyotes painted on the inside. Luis is a talented artist whose work connects the contemporary Mexican-American experience with the culture of pre-Colombian Mexico and modern politics. He's got a number of interesting projects going on right now. I'll post about them as they come along. 
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