meet mark...

well, i never thought i would see the
day the i could love 2 men at the same time.
here's my new camera! (shot, of course,
with my incredibly reliable 10D that
will NOT be put to pasture just yet).

it nearly killed me to wait the 2 hours to
charge the battery. OMG!!!
i used that time to read my manual
and locate everything. this capture
device is CRAZY cool, unlike anything
i have seen and everything they said
it would be!

upon heading out the door to dinner
with this camera in hand gary says...
"could you just leave it for once!"
and i'm like, "ahh...new camera...
9th anniversary??"
gary won this one.

we went to campiello in eden prairie.
wow! why don't we go there more often?!

this place, albeit in a strip mall,
is so fabulous! seriously!
first, they tried to seat us across
the table from one another and i
insisted, in that it was our anniversary,
that we sit next to each other.
soon everyone knew that it was our
9th anniversary and we were treated
like celebs!
our waitress, nicki, was incredible.
everything she recommended we ordered.
even the desert which to me tasted like
Christmas! sooo delicious.

thanks nicki for all the perfect
suggestions and making our anniversary
dinner a night we won't soon forget!

oh, a shredded green apple/crushed walnut
and fetta salad with a balsamic/dijon dressing,
short ribs...pork tederloin in a fig
reduction, and this scrummy blueberry/almond
cakey~cookie thing with vanilla gelato!
holy hanna!! you gotta go.....NOW!!!

sorry, no photos cuz "herr gary" wouldn't
allow me to bring it along...turd.
no, seriously...love you, mean it!

gotta run....again!

jacquie, call me the instant you are
on the ground tomorrow!!!!!! :)