Cayce had a tumor removed recently. Here are his post surgery pictures. The white spot is a previous scar. The surgery scar starts above the white spot and goes about an inch and a half towards his neck. It’s healing really well now.
The tumor was benign and now he has an enormous hematoma on his back (not in the pictures).
He had an infection in his nose, too.
Sadly, Oscar the beautiful white dog of Ele did not have such good results from his biopsy. 🙁
Stuffed peppers in the making. Doesn’t it look pretty?
Steamed shrimp with steamed veggies (broccoli, onions, celery and carrots) with a side of lemony rice and diced cherry tomatoes. The rice is actually a mixture of white and brown rice and tabouleh.
Wednesday night (9/13) we decided to splurge on dinner to officially celebrate our anniversary of 4 years.
So, Dave let me spend an hour geting all dolled up and he looked loverly in his slacks and pressed shirt. I thought I had badgered him into bringing a tie for this fancy dinner but he doesn’t appear to be wearing one, does he?
We walked to this great Irish Pub that was two stories tall and had a boat built into the middle of it. We had a pint and then walked on towards our dinner destination, Wildfire.
We had 8:30 reservations and it was only 7:30 when we arrived. We didn’t check in, we just went to the bar. I decided to save red wine for dinner so I went with a cocktail. My favorite cocktail is one that Dave concocted for me using a recipe in our Playboy Bartender’s Guide. We call it a Gin Sidecar. It’s one third gin, one third couintreau, and one third lemon juice served in a glass with a sugared rim. Most places won’t take the time to conjure fresh lemon juice so I only ask for it at really nice places. I requested it from the bartender and he didn’t bat an eye but whipped one right up for me. It was mighty tasty!
The restaurant was everything you’d expect from an expensive steak place, with dark wood, low lights, and leaded glass, staffed with immaculate servers. The steak was perfect, served with broccoli and potatoes that we split. Yum! No room for dessert, though.
Sated beyond necessity, we headed to a jazz club around the corner where we were entertained by a four-piece jazz ensemble. I thought we were tired when we went to bed the night before, but we were really exhausted at the end of this night!
The Dolphin exhibit was amazing, and we got to watch a show where we learned how the dolphins trained the handlers to feed them whenever they did fun tricks.
Beautiful lizard. Can you believe I took this through the glass?
A colorful swarm of chiclids.
Tuesday the 12th we were up fairly early and had breakfast at Cosi.
We more adeptly navigated the CTA to get to the Shedd Aquarium around 10:30. What an amazing aquarium. I was in love with all the fishes and all the reptiles. I picked up some snacks at Cosi and we noshed on these halfway through our tour of the museum. When we got out, we were hungry and looking for food. We kept our standards high and didn’t settle on Bennigans, though. 🙂
[See the green neon of Bennigan’s across the street?]
We found Russian Tea Time and couldn’t resist having our afternoon meal there. I ordered potato dumplings and a flight of 3 vodkas and a glass of tasty french red wine. Dave had the beef stroganoff – yum! One of the vodkas was flavored Honey-Pepper and was really quite nice.
It was a little after 4 when we finished so we decided to dash through the Art Institute so I could see the Joseph Cornell pieces I knew they had on display. We managed to see those along with Magritte’s Time Transfixed and the famous A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.
Dinner was at Oysy, a tasty sushi restaurant, before we collapsed at the end of our long day.
Wednesday morning we walked down to Navy Pier, but it was raining and cold out so nothing on the pier was open. Navy Pier seemed endless, clusters of shops one after the other, tons of restaurants small and big. The best part of walking halfway down Navy Pier was to happen upon the Smith museum of Stained Glass. How beautiful and stirring. Secular and sacred imagery, all very beautiful. 
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