Ti Amo

As part of my last weekend of freedom before the school-ish stuff began, Tracy and I planned to go to Cedar Key, which is about 50 miles from here, for the evening to eat dinner and have a fun little date night. Alas, sometimes I think Gainesville should be called Rainesville, because in the summer months it does a LOT of that. We decided it would kind of suck to drive all the way to go eat at a waterfront restaurant if it was pouring down rain, so that idea is tabled for another day.

Instead, we went downtown to a really cute restaurant called Ti Amo. It was kind of a cool atmosphere, with dim lighting and understated decor. The menu has some crazy-looking stuff on it (octopus and baby goat, for example), so it took us a minute to find acceptable-sounding meals, but he settled on a gyro made with lamb instead of their traditional tempeh (which is apparently fermented soybeans. Odd), and I had the Gulf shrimp on pasta with some sort of slightly sweet sauce. It was pretty good, especially when we discovered that even though it was a fancy place, they'd still bring us Coke to drink :). They had amazing focaccia bread, and we both really liked the departure from our usual type of restaurant atmosphere. We wouldn't necessarily go there again often, simply because it's a little more exotic than we typically like, but it was a novel experience for our Saturday date night.

After that, we watched Death at a Funeral and had a relaxing evening. Definitely a nice diversion from the fact that SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW!!! Aaaaaahhhhhhh... Although no kiddos for another week, so I still have some time to have a little bit of a summer with no assignments and no paid work. Tomorrow morning at 7:45 a.m. I'll be making the half-hour-ish drive to the school where I'll be spending the next 8 weeks of my life to meet my supervising teacher and help her set-up her classroom. Getting closer to being a real-live adult!