Second (!!) Anniversary

We had an incredible second anniversary date yesterday. Beanz asked me to plan a day for her, which I found intimidating at first, but once I made a general plan for the day, it turned out to be fun and rather empowering. I realized how often I avoid making a decision or a plan, because I always expect her to disagree with anything I suggest. She wants me to suggest things, to help her weigh options. To me, that feels like no matter what I pick, she'll always pick the opposite.
Anyway, yesterday we had breakfast at out favorite JP breakfast place, Sorella's. It was raining quite heavily, and our rain coats made us sweat like we were being microwaved covered in Saran wrap. We had a wonderful breakfast, and then moved on to downtown Boston.
It was a wonderful change of pace to actually navigate myself (oh, so wonderful). We went to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which we both love. We had gone there once when we were first dating and she visited me in Boston, and neither of us had been there in many years, so it was a nice change. We almost went to a classical performance happening there, but we decided to spend more time enjoying the art. The amazing thing about the Gardner museum is that it's not only one person's house, but it feels like a home. Some of the room are unbelievable indoor gardens with classical Roman sculptures and gorgeous flower displays, and others are almost folksy quaint little American rooms with a huge fireplace and little china knick-knacks and deer-patterned lace doilies that look like 8-bit video game characters.
Afterwards we went down to the waterfront and walked around, smelling the heavy, cool salty sea-breeze. Later we went to a fancy Italian restaurant I found on Phantom Gourmet (listed as 'Best Undiscovered Gem') I had a lobster diavoli (?), a sort of wavy, wide and thin linguine, with a mildly spicy tomato sauce and lobster, with saffron and fennel (couldn't really taste either one), and Minna had loin of venison (!!!), with mashed pumpkin (!!) and stewed kale (meh...too watery). Venison was incredible! It was moist, tttteeennndddeeeerrrrr, and juicy, ver much like steak, but with a slightly gamier, stronger flavor.