Happy Late Valentine’s Day. I hope your V-Day was as sweet as mine.

Thomas took me out to a weird looking restaurant called Piebar on Monday (my last landscaping class was Tuesday). It looked like some kind of spaceship, but supposedly it used to be a bank. The meal was good, my favorite part being the squid scampi, which actually didn’t have pasta in it. Instead, the squid was fettucini-shape. The courses were tapas style, where they are appetizer size portions and meant to be shared. It was fun to try a new place.

Today, Thomas and I went to the ballet for the rest of our V-day celebration. The part that made it really special was that we rode the MARTA (subway) downtown. It made it feel like we were somewhere exciting, like New York. :) I’m easily entertained.  The performance, Peter and the Wolf, was great. I had only heard it on the radio before, and radio doesn’t do much justice for ballet.

Afterwards, they had a couple of extra dances using lights to alter the visual sensations. One was a ballet performance which was done with strobe lights, so you kept seeing clips of the dancer in the air and never landing. The other used black lights to block out some views. Half the dancers only had their legs showing, and the other had their arms, so they looked like floating body parts. This reminded me alot of the very cool black light theater troupe my brother toured with when he was a teen - Ta Fantastika.