The Fifth Anniversary

I don't remember what the official gift of the fifth anniversary is according to the books of etiquette and tradition, but what John and I had for our 5th anniversary was Italian food.

Our official anniversary was Wednesday, but neither of us remembered it until Thursday. But it seemed like a good reason to go to an ultra nice dinner, once we realized we had a reason to celebrate. After all, we've been through some tough times already and it's a great thing to have a happy anniversary.

We went to Zazio's Restaurant, a modern-type Italian restaurant at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Kalamazoo.

It was yummy. Here's the pictorial!

They start you off with bread, crackers, a roasted head of garlic, olive tapenade and tuscan bean tapenade. Since I'm not eating much bread these days, they brought me some thinly sliced carrot ribbons and I enjoyed that with the spreads very much. I also had an arugula salad with mushrooms and parmesan ... the flavor of the greens came through so nicely.



My entree was Alaskan halibut with mussels and Yukon Gold potato slices in a white wine broth. Yum!


John had a rabbit sausage ravioli in a garlic cream sauce and a balsamic vinaigrette glaze. Very different! Full of ricotta and mascarpone cheese.


I was doing so great on my healthy eating plan up to today!

We kept thinking about Joe-Dad and wondering if he would like the food. He and Kathy and 2 other couples, – old friends of theirs – are staying up at the cottage this weekend. So we gave Joe a call and chatted.


We are the happy couple. We try to be.


Here is the Radisson in downtown Kalamazoo. K-zoo or "the Zoo" is a pretty interesting town. Much of the downtown is spiffed-up and well-kept (not mostly abandoned like Battle Creek's). It's only about a half-hour drive to downtown Kalamazoo.


Here's to 5 more years! I hope they are easy ones!