Quick Snippets

Last night, Monte and I went out w/ Jana and Chris. We had a great time! A couple of interesting things:

• We spotted Al Franken and his wife in the corner booth of Ginger Hop. He is a lot shorter in person than he looks on TV.
• Ginger Hop is one of the better restaurants we've eaten at in a long time! Their food was so spicy, I had to order an extra beer to wash down the fire.

Some other fun news:

• Congrats to the Kennedy's on their little boy Finn!
• Congrats to my nephew Jon and his fiancee Sharon on their recent engagement! I've heard they want to do a destination-type wedding like we did. Yes!
• Christmas came early for me - Monte bought me a Canon PowerShot S90. Our other camera, the PowerShot S50, which we bought in 2003 and had not had any problems w/ it until a couple weeks ago, was sent off to the repair shop so I was without a camera for awhile. How in the world did I survive? I have not taken time to delve into all of the cool features of the S90, but it takes amazing photos, has a great ISO, and the shutter speed is faster than our other Canon.
• The S50 just came back from the shop yesterday looking brand new. Two cameras for me! :)

In Ani's world:

• She LOVES her shoes. Obsessed might be a better word. Shoes = Outside to her.
• She actually kind of says "outside", "shoes", for sure "dada", sometimes "mama".
• Some of the signs she does: "more", "please", "drink", "eat", "book", "airplane", "all done", "shoes" (is this a surprise?)
• Still only has 4 teeth - top 2 and bottom 2.
• She turns her palms up when we ask her where something is.
• She blows kisses good-bye and gives high-fives.