Today, Jes and I celebrated our 6th Wedding Anniversary and 13th year together as best friends.  Instead of taking a trip, we decided to stay local and nerd-it-up at the brand-spankin’-new California Academy of Sciences.  We got up early to take a 45-min ride on Muni and walked another 10 minutes through Golden Gate Park to be greeted by hundreds of other guests hoping to do the same thing.

It was crowded and crawling with children but it’s a really cool place to visit.  The architecture is interesting and they have some pretty fun exhibits.  I think we spent an hour in the aquarium exhibit alone and actually didn’t go into the 3-story rainforest because the line was too long.  Thank goodness for the annual membership because we’ll have to go back for that part.

For dinner, we went to Spruce.  I had the honey-lacquered duck with foie gras and cinnamon apples, which was oh so tasty.  Jes’ pork tenderloin and pork belly were also very good.  Back when I was a poor grad student and Jes had lost his first dot-com job, we started a journal that began with a bunch of wish lists and was a reflection of things we enjoyed doing together. The journal has evolved over the years and it’s become a tradition of ours to go through it each year on our anniversary to recount the events of the past year.  So, we did just that over dinner.  We also made plans for the coming year and added to our “Lifetime To Do” and “Places We Want To Visit” lists.  Each year the lists get longer but we also get to check things off too.  It’s funny to see how our priorities change each year while so many things remain the same.