Happy Anniversary to us!

Today is our wedding anniversary - two years!  I have to say it's been the most amazing and wonderful and unpredictable two years of my life.  What a blessing God gives us in marriage.  And what fun! Based on our only other wedding anniversary, celebrating our anniversary in the US involved a trip to New Orleans to visit a friend, a night in a quaint Bed and Breakfast on our actual anniversary, dinner out at a restaurant, meandering about the town, anniversary gifts to each other wrapped nicely in paper, and Hallmark cards.  

This year, of course, things are a bit different.  We didn't go to any Bed and Breakfasts but I did bring Krista coffee in bed and made omelettes for breakfast.  Then, at Krista's request, we went shopping - I figured Krista just wanted to go window shopping because she likes doing such things.  Turns out we were shopping for a gas grill!  Yay!  I've wanted to get a gas grill for several months since we arrived in Uganda but the markup is about 100% here for such items, and we even contemplated buying one the next time we were in the States and bringing it back with us.  So after I enjoyed looking at our wide selection of 5 gas grills, I picked the one for us!

After our surprisingly exciting shopping experience, we tried looking for a Japanese restaurant we'd heard about but couldn't find it, so we went to the tried-and-true (and only) Mexican "Fusion" restaurant which happened to be in that area.  After a light lunch we had a few more stops to make - picked up some hamburger patties, a propane tank, and a few other necessary items so we could cook our anniversary dinner on our new grill.  I assembled the grill, found that I needed a Ugandan gas regulator instead of the one that came with a grill that wouldn't fit the Ugandan propane tank, ran back to the store to get the regulator, and fired up my new grill for the first time - everything worked perfectly.  I even had a beer while I cooked - it just felt like the right thing to do.  We set up some of our outdoor furniture to face our new grill and enjoyed the evening as the hamburgers crackled over the flames.  Our anniversary dinner was cheeseburgers on hamburgerish buns (not the same as what you would buy in the States, but close enough!), with mustard, ketchup, mayo, lettuce, and tomatoes.  We watched a classic James Bond movie on the laptop and enjoyed cuddling on the couch.  What a great anniversary!  Happy anniversary to us!  -Shauen