date night!


today was another big slog. major research on the sermon - sodom and gomorrah - yikes! looks like another difficult sermon to write.

had coffee with the pastor of another downtown baptist church - shawn bellevue - really nice guy with a real heart for the downtown. it was nice getting together with him and chatting about life as a pastor and how to reach the downtown core.

tonight was date night! yay! actually it's felicia's birthday on tuesday so i bought her some flowers - we left adam with a lady from our church who lives in our building. we went to this amazing italian restaurant called circolo. it was so good. check out what we had:

appetizer - oysters w. creme fraiche, caviar and pureed tomato
main course - duck in a cherry reduction / duck pasta
desert - dark chocolate truffle

yum yum!!!

i have to confess eating at nice restaurants is a real weakness - unfortunately on a pastor's salary its not one i can readily get used to, unless someone is footing the bill. so on birthdays and anniverseries we can splurge a little bit.

as a gift i am going to get her the usual - something from banana republic. i usually walk into the women's section and buy whatever the first mannequin that i see is wearing. i can usually get it done in about 5 minutes. i think she's only returned one thing in the past 4 years we've been married.

saw charlie and the chocolate factory tonight - it was pretty good but had some wierd dark moments. johnny depp looked like he was channeling michael jackson.

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Michael-Paul said…
word on the street is that he was imitating michael jackson for the part.
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