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Yesterday, Libby and I celebrated our 4th anniversary. Our real anniversary was last week, but we figured waiting until the weekend made more sense for an all day event. This year, instead of leaving town, we decided to do some of the touristy stuff that there is to do in the city but that we don't do because you're never really a tourist in your hometown. Neat idea, eh?

Libby made most of the plans, but since I was included, before we did anything, we stopped off for coffee. (As you can see, I took my new stupid little camera, which, by the way, I'm still infatuated with, even though it's been 3 whole days since I got it.) After coffee, we toured the Purcell-Cuts house, which is this old home in Minneapolis that is one of the nation's best examples of the Prairie School style of architecture. It was bitchin'. Lots of attention to detail, especially with respect to the use of space. My favorite parts were the windows and our little old lady tour guide, who was a total hoot.

Later, we went on a trolley ride down at Lake Harriet. After the ride, I got all worked up thinking about how the automobile lobby basically prevented good mass transit in countless towns across America. The it kinda started to sprinkle, so I just let it go.

Finally, that night we went to a great dinner at this fancy seafood place downtown called The Oceanaire. It was great. I think it's my new favorite restaurant. I want to go back now.

Fun day.