My wife and I just celebrated our second wedding anniversary, and we couldn't be happier! The second year seemed like it flew by a lot faster than the first. We wanted to do something special for our anniversary to celebrate having just quit our jobs, so the first order of the day was to walk to the Farmer's Market and enjoy the sites there (see posts below for that story!). After making several circuits around the market and buying everything we wanted we moved on to exploring the downtown area on foot. Our town isn't a major metropolitan area by any stretch of the imagination, but we still have quite a few fun shops to check out down town. The store In Cahoots For Tea is a favorite of ours, with all of their tea related items and variety of mustards, jams, and foreign candies. They frequently stock chocolate bars from England and even have the Scottish carbonated drink Irn Bru. Just next door is Candy Masterpiece, which actually makes the majority of their candy right there. Although I'm a sucker for truffles, we were still a little full from all the food at the Market and wanted to make sure we had room for lunch, so we skipped out this time.
We headed off to Gibson Park to get some anniversary photos to share, but it was starting to get too hot out and the mosquitoes were coming out in force, so after a brief time there we moved on and plan to return back in a few days to get some better pictures. After a few more quick stops downtown and some sight seeing we headed off to the bus station to head back home briefly. Our bus system doesn't have very many routes that people use frequently and they have found themselves low on funds, so they are stopping bus service on Saturday's going forward. It's a real pity since we were planning on using the bus more often now that we work from home and don't need to drive every day. Lucky for us the bus we took actually goes right by our house, so we hopped out and got all of our stuff together for our hotel stay.
Before checking into the hotel we took my wife's brother out with us for lunch at Boston's. She had been given a gift card for the restaurant by her co-workers as a going away gift that we made good use of. I wanted to branch out from the standard artichoke dip that my wife loves so much and try the boneless buffalo wings, but I also wanted to have a seafood appetizer at our dinner choice later that night. Since my wife hates seafood I figured a good compromise would be to have the artichoke dip and then get a sampler platter at dinner later that had seafood on it. Boston's had some new seasonal items, so I went with the Alexander's Great Gyro, which came with a Greek salad. Putting a new twist on an old favorite, they cut the pita bread into wedges and stuffed them with "gyro meat" (when a menu says gyro meat instead of lamb they mean thinly sliced beef seasoned to taste like lamb), tomatoes, and onions. They ditched the traditional feta cheese and cucumber sauce, and instead provided a Tzatziki dipping sauce. Megan had the Florentine calzone and Matt went with the flying buffalo calzone, which is one of Boston's best menu items.
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