My wife wrote the final exam for her course on April 1, and she doesn't have to start her next one until the end of this month, so we've gotten to see quite a bit more of each other than usual lately.
The night of her exam we joined a buddy of mine from work and his wife and a few of their friends for supper at Earl's and then went to the Southland to see Inside Man, which was overall a pretty boring movie but not a bad one. The next day was our anniversary, which we celebrated by going to The Willow on Wascana for supper with my parents. It was a great meal. We went there on Mike's recommendation and I couldn't be happier with our choice. The food was awesome and so was the location. It will be someplace we will go again when our wallets recover :)Normally my wife and I don't exchange presents on birthdays, etc. but for some reason she thought it would be a good idea to get me a gift. She bought me a Playstation 2, which was a fantastic gift but not exactly up my alley, so with her blessing I traded it in and got some things that I'd always wanted, like The Star Wars Trilogy and the final disc of my Lord of the Rings collection. I also picked up a joystick for my hawesome PVR. My wife rocks. She paid the price for her generosity, though, because I made her watch the first Star Wars movie that week, quite possibly the greatest film of all time, IMHO.
The next Friday we picked up some Chinese food and when to Holly and Ryan's for supper to visit with them and Mya. She's still tiny but growing by the day! I even got to hold her for .5 seconds before she starting crying and screaming in terror of seeing my hideous face. Saturday was more fun and games as we had my mom over for supper after Spanish class and then went to the university for the "A Night in Africa" show/concert that was put on. There were lots of cool things to see but the entire evening clocked in at over 4 hours, which is much too long to be sitting in the Education Auditorium for, so much so that we didn't even stay until the end. Oh well, what we did see was interesting, anyways. We didn't stay out late because we had to get up early the next morning to head to Grainfields to go for brunch with Natasha Bood, in town for an early Easter visit. It's always nice to catch up with friends over good food :)
Our time together has also allowed us to catch up on some things we've needed to do for a long time. Aside from our taxes, we've reserved this month for shopping and purchasing new furniture for our living room. Our current decor includes an old futon and a couch we got from Brad's family that was made in the times of the Bible and looks and feels every bit its age. We did a bit of shopping last Sunday but most of the stores were closed. We plan to spend more time over the coming weeks, but so far an Orion reclining sofa, reclining loveseat, and swivel rocker recliner set made by Palliser Furniture that we saw last night is in the lead. We'll see what we come up with!
Tonight we're leaving town for the weekend to head to the cabin until Monday for the Easter holiday. Have a happy Easter, everybody; I know that I will have a nice one. We're going to relax but also do some work clearing away the wood pile, which will be the eventual location of the new hot tub ;)