Anniversary

Yesterday Chris and I hit our one year wedding anniversary! In a way it seems like a much longer time than a year, and in another way it feels like our wedding was just yesterday. On Saturday, we celebrated at Cinetopia, a fantastic movie theater in Vancouver, WA. The theater has recliners and leather ottoman's for viewers to relax in during the movie, and they serve food and beverages directly to the seats. We saw Taken, which had many high points. My heart was racing and beating so strongly that it felt as if it would pop out of my chest. Well done, Liam Neeson! SPOILER ALERT! We felt that the ending of the movie was lacking, so on the way home from the movie we re-wrote the ending a few times. Our best idea was as follows: father gets daughter safely back to the U.S. and then promptly does an about face to go deal (single-handedly) with the trafficking and drugging of young women in the greater Paris area. This way, we estimated that the action could have continued at least another 30 minutes.

Before the movie started we got to enjoy some really great accordion music. I don't remember the guy's name, but I think he said something about "Accordion Crimes". Anyway, he was very good, and it was refreshing to enjoy some tasteful music instead of watching the pre-preview advertisements.

In honor of the traditional paper theme for first anniversary gifts... Chris and I have ferry tickets to go to Victoria, British Columbia, in May! We decided since we are this close to Canada, and neither of us have been, we might as well pop on over before we leave for Fiji. More on that in a few months.

Of the many things to celebrate in our lives at the moment, we celebrated the 100 day mark to our staging date. We leave in 14 weeks (98 days) from today!

Love to all!
Nan (and Chris)