We officially celebrated our anniversary on Saturday ('cause it's no fun to celebrate on a Monday), and at my request, James did all the planning himself. If you know us, you know this is highly unusual since I plan or lead the planning effort in most aspects of our life. James did an excellent job, though! It makes me want to hand over all control more often!
First, we went to see Frost/Nixon at the Angelika Dallas, which we had been wanting to see for a while. In fact, I want to see every single movie currently playing at the Angelika, so I'm sure we'll be frequenting there in the next few weeks. It was a very good movie, but a bit of a letdown from the hyped up, out-of-context previews. From there, we went and ate lunch at a nearby Chipotle, where I hadn't been to eat since New Year's Eve! Yes, I had chicken in my burrito, but this was already permitted when we first made our plans to give up meat--the exclusion of special occasions like wedding anniversaries, birthdays, and important holidays. This was also my first time to have a Dr. Pepper in the new year, which I have also been avoiding. This Chipotle was HUGE and VERY BUSY, and I realized that it is probably the SMU Chipotle, since it was mostly college-aged kids eating there. Since James had never seen SMU, we drove by it after we left.
The main event of the day was visiting the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. It was extremely crowded, and we had to wait a very long time between standing in line for tickets and actually entering the exhibit. I should have brought something to knit on. The exhibit was fascinating, and I learned a ton about ancient Egypt. I won't spoil it for you (since I know that you are going to see it--it closes in May, so you have time), but I should warn you: King Tut is not actually part of the exhibit. Yes, they show what appears to be his gold coffin in the commercials and advertisements, but not one of his eight (!) coffins is actually there. They do have a gold coffin belonging to someone else, and the tiny gold coffins of his stillborn children (sad, but probably common when you marry your sister), but no King Tut. James and I were a little disappointed (and after reading reviews online, I see we were not alone), but I still think the exhibit was fanstastic.
After King Tut, James and I looked around the museum a little longer and saw some things we hadn't gotten to see last time we were there. Maybe one day we will finally get to see it all before being ushered out at closing time.
We headed to Addison to check into our room at the Intercontinental Hotel and get ready for dinner. This was the largest hotel I've ever been in--it even had a boutique, a gift shop, and a coffee shop. Our room was on the 16th floor (I think) and we could see a lot of Addision from the window.
For dinner, we went to Texas de Brazil, a churrascaria restaurant where they walk around with skewers of meat and offer you steak, lamb, chicken, pork, ribs, etc. I didn't have much meat, though the little I did eat was very good. James had a LOT of meat. I am often amazed at how much he can consume. I did enjoy the "salad" bar, which had much, much more than salad. I think the salad bar is reason enough to go back, even without eating any meat. Yum! We had creme brulee for dessert, which was very, very good. It had just a hint of a lemon flavor that was perfect. I kinda feel like I had two desserts, though, since they serve fried bananas as one of our sides. Our server told us it was to cleanse our palate between different meats, so though I didn't have much occassion to use it for that, I did eat it all.
While James slept in yesterday, I worked on my Noro Scarf #2 for a while. I got this much done:
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