The Holtonian

A night to remember

Well we had our official annivesary dinner tonight. A nice London Broil marrinated and then cooked on the grill to a nice pink center, it was superb. Then some potatoes, asaragus, champagne, sweet tea, and topped it off with chocolate dipped strawberries and the top of our wedding cake.

I and my wife must bragg that we had the best wedding cake ever, I don't care what you think, you're wrong, ours was truly the best. A pound cake with a butter cream icing. None of that rolled fondit crap that makes for a pretty cake but has the taste of waxed lips. Nor none of that fruity stuff, or lemony stuff, we had the cake of all cakes. Plain jane and it was mighty insane! We had kept it at the inlaws and they wrapped it in 3 layers of tin foil and then zip locked it. We got it out tonight and it was precious. Sooooo good. As if it was baked just yesterday!
The London broil too was amazing, wifey really outdid herself on the marinade, and I love aspargus and the fact that she doesn't shows her self sacrificialness and makes me love her more.

The Champagne was pretty sweet too, a wedding present from long ago. They say its bad to keep champagne refrigerated for too long, but we kept ours in the fridge since we got it and it still tasted great. Though all champgne tastes the same to me so I'm not the best judge. Its not like wine, coffee, or beer where you can taste different attributes.

The wife opened up her gift, a Minotola camera that I will be purchasing off of Scott. He offered it to me when he heard i was looking for a camera for the wife. When I bought the digital camera it was sort of a decision I made, not really a consensus, though she's really come around to it, she still wanted a good old fashion camera. So I'd had the mind to get her one for sometime and scott made me a good offer so I took it. I liked the camera a lot and hopefully wife will too. She seems to like it, though she's looking forward to Scott finding those instructions.

SLR camera's are kind of hit and miss. I've seen some break without much of a reason. My mom bought a Pentax, which she thought and most people do, was one of the better if not best brands, but it broke after a few years. And I've heard similar things about other name brands. So i'm not too concerned with the brand quality. My guess is these companies copy the car companies and just make the same base model and then add their own little features. Think about it all SLR cameras pretty much look the same except for the German ones. Thats my theory, why not, Japanese car companies do it all the time, why wouldn't it make sense that their camera companies did it too???