We didn't really celebrate our anniversary the day of, although Sterling did bring me home some flowers, and we didn't really do anything for Valentines, although we did end up going to the temple for a sealing of one of Sterling's home teaching family's, and we didn't do much on my birthday, although Sterling did make me a chocolate cake....BECAUSE....we were saving all of our celebrations for President's Day, when Sterling would be off of school.
My wonderful, incredibly, amazingly generous older sister Megan said she was willing to watch Ruth ALL DAY LONG (and much longer than we thought, THANK YOU MEGAN!!!!) and so we made use of every minute we could! We spent the morning/afternoon in Park City, wandering, enjoying, buying myself two new shirts and a purse that I think will also fit a diaper so that I can not always have to carry the diaper bag around. We dreamed about the things we will buy someday. Or maybe not. But its nice to dream. Sterling found a steal of a deal in one place that was having 70% off sales with additional 20% of some items...he got a wool coat originally two hundred and something dollars for FORTY! Yeah. That ended our wonderful spending spree.
We stopped at some friends house in SLC to pump and eat a couple cookies before heading out to Tuscany's in south SLC. It was beautiful, amazing, and so deliciously divine! It helps to have a $50 gift card! I tried bread pudding for the first time, with chocolate chips and cranberries and vanilla ice cream on top! Ohhhhh, man. Yummy.
We then went straight to the Hale Center Theater for the U.S. Premier of The Mask of Zorro. I didn't really understand what that meant until I read the little show info. It's only been performed in London, and all these other cool places, and The Hale Center Theater searched for three years to find out the owner, and convince him that they were a spectacular enough theater to produce it! The owner came and watched A Tale of Two Cities (which is the show we watched last year on our anniversary, and seriously, it was as good or better than Broadway, so obviously it convinced him) and he said they could do it before it was sent to Broadway in the US!
Long story short, they had fireworks, flamenco dancers, and costumes the likes of which I am DYING to call my sister Kami about and describe in great detail! The main evil guy was outstanding, the gypsy queen stole the show and was absolutely PHENOMENAL, the dorky and pathetic guy was perfectly dorky and pathetic and hilarious, and the chorus was BREATH-TAKING!!!! Sterling and I both thought the Zorro and lead girl were fabulous, but a little lacking. We finally decided that it was because they didn't carry off the Spaniardy-accent well enough. Not quite as amazing as last years performace of A Tale of Two Cities, but it is the first week of shows and it was still worth every penny.
Sterling and I decided throughout the day that when we retire we're going to spend the summers gardening and the winters going to theaters. We'll have season tickets for everything. It was so much fun to have an entire day together and dream together for a bit. Before we came back (later than anticipated) to a crying baby, who decided to get all four top teeth at once...and wake up every hour on the hour. Poor little one. And thats all for this year of celebrations folks!
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