Celebrating Our 40th Anniversary Together

It was a fun day. We celebrated 40 years married being together, talking about our lives together, trying to speak with our son (he is phoning today...in a concert when we called him), lunch out and dinner in. We showered and dressed up and went into the world to hunt and gather our food for the day. A gorgeous rib eye steak on the bone and two humongous shrimp were placed on ice in the cooler first, cold Champagne quickly followed, then we hit Draegers, which is a very expensive market for the very wealthy. We bought the caviar, blinis, creme fraiche and mushrooms there, which were also put on ice. We were hungry for lunch.

We went to a new place. Very simple. Extremely good. I even brought the beet salad home for our dinner. It was amazing. I think they will end up marketing this place as a franchise. Here is the URL:
http://www.fare-pdq.com/   We tried driving home over the pass but the exit backed up the freeway for miles, so we headed south to our most favorite drive. We were totally shocked to find that it also was backed up onto the off ramp. We finally made the stop sign in town and only three cars were going our way. It turned out to be an easy trip to the ocean. Beautiful. Warm.

The fun began around 4:30. The BBQ was hauled out and lit. WHOOPS! Michael forgot to buy propane. We jumped into the car and sat in traffic and finally got to the hardware store in town only to discover they were OUT OF THE SMALL PROPANE TANKS! One lady suggested the larger one. It would fit. Sold!

Back to the house, we made the caviar appetizers and opened the champagne.

The hardwood briquettes were finally hot enough to cook the massive shrimp, which we peeled, cut up and dipped into butter. It tasted like lobster.

Then the steak was added to the grill. The master chef cooked it to perfection while I slowly cooked the mushrooms on the stove.

So our feast was the salad from lunch, mushrooms, the fantastic steak which we will eat again for dinner tonight. We listened to music in the living room and chatted some more.

It was a perfect anniversary together. I am so happy we changed our plans to celebrate in Las Vegas. It was hot and filled with people this holiday weekend. This was better. This was us.