4 years

Thursday was our 4 year anniversary.  we both worked.  we decided from the beginning that instead of spending our money buying Valentine's day and anniversary presents,  we would find something to do together and spend some quality time.  the first year,  Seth was sick,  but at least we were together.  the next 2 years, a favorite band of ours, Trampled by Turtles, played at Twin Ports Brew Fest near Duluth.  this year,  the band decided not to play the venue and a different band was playing.  we still debated going, but then we decided to do something different this year.  Friday morning,  while daddy cleared the snow, Eleanor played outside on the swing set.  then we headed down to Minneapolis to the Depot hotel.  They have a waterpark that is perfect for younger children.  I would highly reccomend this place!  especially on a friday afternoon.  they open at noon and since school wasn't out yet,  we had the place pretty much to ourselves!  ( there was one other family there for part of the time)  the kids had a blast!  we played for about 3 hours and then we took the kids to Grandma Cindy's house for the night.

Seth and I had a dinner date and then came back to the hotel to watch a movie.  dinner was at Haute Dish  and it was awesome!  a little on the spendy side, but the food was excellent!  I had a sampler  platter that started with a sweet potato soup shooter with marshmallow foam, followed by a salad, the highlight being the candied onions but the whole thing was excellent.  then I had crab macaroni cheese and tater tot Haute Dish (  basically 2 croquettes, some super tender roast beef and green beans).  Seth had  pig and fish.  some salt cod, proscuitto wrapped pork tenderloin, pork belly and clams over white bean puree.  everything was very good as was the service. 

we went back to the room and watched the Hunger Games.  We both read all the books but don't have time to watch adult movies very often.  It was good,  but of course could not live up to the books.  In the morning,  we walked down to Hell's Kitchen and had yet another amazing meal.  and then we picked up the kids and returned to reality.