Dandelion Fountain
January 25, 2010, was our 40th wedding anniversary. Today is already the morning of the 26th in Christchurch (or ChCh as they abbreviate it), but it is still our anniversary in most of the rest of the world. So we want to thank everyone for their kind greetings. We had a great day on our anniversary. After arriving in ChCh, we went out to watch the buskering. The festival is great. There are street performers at about 5 or more locations performing continuously (different acts every hour). In the evening there are comedy clubs with buskers or nighttime performances. We are having a great time wandering from venue to venue.
While wandering, we also checked out restaurants that had been recommended to us by the people here for our big occasion. We settled on a beautiful little restaurant called Tiffanys, situated on a park adjacent to the river running through ChCh. The food was gourmet (the tenderest freshest lamb chops I have had in a long time), and the service impeccable (I think we were served by the owner). They bent over backwards to accomodate. When Irith couldn’t find something on the menu for the main course that she really wanted, they happily agreed to make a main course size of one of the appetizers that she wanted. We drank an entire bottle of Asti champagne (or, more properly, sparkling wine since it is not from the Champagne district of France) and it reminded us of the Asti we had at our wedding 40 years ago. We were too full for dessert, but the management surprised us with a special dish of truffles (they called them petit fours). See the picture below. It was a lovely romantic evening to perfectly top off our big day (around which this entire trip was built). Then we walked back to the hotel, stopping at one of the venues for a 10 pm performance of a show involving juggling and dancing with fire.
Today we have 5 or 6 performers at various locations circled in our guide to go see. There is a comedy show at the Casino here tonight that we plan to go to, so our day is set and we are looking forward to getting started. Having a great time and wish that you all were here with us.
Roger
Dinner at Tiffanys
A Busker from Germany
Buskers from USA
Buskers from Canada
What an amazing anniversary celebration! Many, many happy anniversary wishes!
Glad you had a great time! Looks super fun! Happy (US Pacific time zone) Anniversary!
Sounds like a beautiful and romantic way to celebrate your 40th wedding anniversary. Here’s to many more filled with good health, happiness and oodles of laughter. xxxxx
Happy Anniversary!!! Looks like you guys are having such a memorable 40th! I am envious of your petit fours. 😛
Only 9:45 pm on the east coast in the U.S. so you still have 2 hours and 15 minutes left of your anniversary. Happy 40th!!! xxxoooo, Carol & Jack
And, NO, you absolutely do NOT wish we were all there. Are you crazy? You don’t have enough points to cover the cost for all your family and friends and we’re not paying for ourselves to celebrate with you.