Kuniko and I celebrated our first anniversary Monday night by meeting up after school and having dinner together. I had a really easy day at school – no classes – and it was nice to take my time coming back and wandering around Kobe a little bit before Kuniko showed up.
We had originally wanted to go to Graciani, one of our favorite Kobe restaurants, but it was apparently out of business. Instead we went to Tapas, another one of our favorites. We ordered lots of food from the menu and a bottle of Spanish wine to go with it.
While eating we spent the time talking about the last year and how things had gone. It sounds like we’re both really happy with things, and year one went just as well as you could expect. We spent lots of time telling stories and laughing about memories from when we first met, from sneaking around together on dates, and about our wedding and party.
The dinner and dessert were excellent. They have a very unusual menu, and you can try all kinds of weird things. It isn’t really an authentic Spanish restaurant, more of a Spanish-style restaurant. It was delicious.
We walked back to the station from the restaurant, buzzing just a little bit from the wine, and then caught a train home. On the way back we stopped at Nishi Akashi to try to find a new bento box for Kuniko – her old one finally broke. We struck out there, but later found one at Saty closer to home.
We got home kind of late, and squeezed in a hot bath together before going to bed. It was a fun evening together. We’re both kind of concerned about how much we’ve been eating lately, though. Maybe it’s the weather – I don’t know. We officially are going on a diet together starting tomorrow.
