4 Years, and Counting

Our anniversary this year fell on the best day of the week to celebrate, Thursday! It's really not perfect but Trisha found ways to really make it special for us. She's awesome and surprised me with a cute little heart she made with matches. We then started the day off right by going to a new spot (to us) on 23rd called Besaws that I had heard about, it was pretty tasty. Trisha gave me a really nice card and gift, so at the end of the meal our waiter brought us a treat because he guessed we were celebrating something. And he wanted a fat tip. We went to eat right at opening because we also had an interview with a pediatrician before work. That went well and we went to work, did our things, and then met up for dinner. Which I didn't select until last minute... meaning I knew the area of town I wanted to eat in but hadn't picked a spot. The area I chose just happened to be where everyone in the city wanted to be as well. Come to find out, first Thursdays the NW turns into a local artists gallery and cool people stroll spot. The whole area was really busy and there was no parking... Anyway, we found a cool place to eat some food and get out of the crowds for a bit. Oba was really good and we got a bunch of tapas to sample a lot of stuff. They made the guac right at our table just like we told them to and it was both fun and delicious. The dish that is almost gone was coconut shrimp in an awesome sweet spicy sauce... one of our favorite dishes... followed by some delicious tacos and quesadillas. Because we were new to the restaurant, they gave us a dessert on the house which is hard to describe but was amazing. Imagine chocolate, pineapple, vanilla ice cream, roasted marshmallows, and banana all combined in the most delicious way... that's more or less what it was like.

Trisha is my best friend and it was fun to squeeze in some play time mid-week. She really makes everything so enjoyable for us and the last 4 years have been so much fun. Already in our short time being married, we've had lots to laugh at... some only after some time has passed. Trisha is my everything and I feel like we've already been through or experienced so much together.

We always buy a new pair of shoes to wear on our
anniversary, and these we our digs for our special day.

Bitter Sweet... Mostly Bitter

We've owned and enjoyed riding our motorcycle for the past four years and have some great memories with it. It somehow made selling our station wagon a lot more bearable for me when Trisha and I were engaged. Trisha was a great sport trusting me to get a motorcycle, we did have a few talks about it before we both thought it was a good idea. So I rode real carefully on the way home from buying the bike so that she would trust me even more with it from then on. ;) I rode it to and from school. I brought home pizza, milk, and groceries, and even took it to California when I was interning there. That was probably the best time with the bike since the weather was nice most days and lane splitting was legal. I rode it every day to and from work and would go out for rides even during my lunch breaks. When I'd fly home, while on that internship, I'd ride 45 minutes to the airport with my backpack and a duffle because parking was free for bikes. I'll stop reminiscing and run through the rest... bumped a deer, punched out a taillight, got some stitches, unknowingly had a police chase, got a ticket, adjusted my mirrors, snapped a drive belt, and retired a rear tire with style.... ALL that fun and since moving up here to Portland we've rarely ridden the bike. After a year and a half of dusting and washing off a bike a lot more than riding it, we decided someone else should be out enjoying it.  

Riding home the day we bought the bike... wearing my fiancé's
 sweater and a stranger's helmet... that was a few sizes too big.

The last we saw of her... until we got on the freeway to go for dessert
 and saw the guy who had just bought the bike just babying it along.