Nikki and I celebrated our five-year anniversary (a few days late) by going out to dinner and then a show at the new Guthrie. We parked over at the new Guthrie and then walked over to dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. They have damn good lasagna.

After dinner we walked back to the Guthrie, saw The Real Thing, and checked out a bit of the new Guthrie site. The show was excellent and I'd recommend seeing it. We sat in the third row, and it wasn't too close... for drama I think it's always fun to be able to see the actors act up close.

We were originally planning on seeing The Chris Olson Trio at The Dakota, but the show didn't start until 11:30. The grandparents had Eva overnight, and we were picking her up in the morning. Some long, uninterrupted sleep was also a plan for our evening, so we decided to change plans and not go to such a late show. Man this paragraph has nothing but "I'm getting old" written all over it. If you've never been to the Dakota before, then I highly recommend it. It's one of the town's biggest (not in terms of size) jazz venues and it's a great setting.

The area around the Guthrie that is being developed is really picking up steam... tis going to be a busy place in Minneapolis once everything gets built...