Date Night

Last Saturday, Todd and I got wild and decided to go on a date night.  Todd came home Friday night and told me he had reserved a babysitter (Bobby) and did I want to do something. I thought it was really romantic that he did it that way.  I through out a few ideas, including the Turning Stone and we decided on it.

We invited a friend of his to dinner there (Travis, who is responsible for my awesome pink garbage can) as he lives in that area, but he couldn't make it.  We were fine with it being just the two of us.

We decided to start with the nickel slots and true to form (the last time we went there, 4 years ago, was the first time Todd had been) Todd won a few hundred dollars on the second try.  I kept losing.  So I headed to my favorite, the roulette table.  It was still early enough where the minimum was $5, but I wasn't on my game and lost right away.

Well that might have been because Todd and I had had a couple of drinks and after two cosmos, I was a bit buzzed. That's right, the Turning Stone now serves alcohol.  Overpriced drinks, but I was duly impressed when my bartender chilled my glass with ice before serving up the drink.  We stood on the empty dance floor sipping those expensive but tasty drinks....Todd had an appletini and I think the bartender was looking for the other girl :)

I also introduced Todd to the money wheel.

We decided to try one of the restaurants, having looked online ahead of time we knew that The Wildflower had the best reviews.  But a couple of wrong turns and we were further away from it.  We were in the corner with the three other sit down places.  We decided against Chinese and Todd suggested we just pick the first one we go to.  I liked the idea of adventure!

We ended up at the steakhouse.  It was nice as they gave us a table tucked in an alcove.  We ordered two different steaks.  Both were good, but Todd's was amazing.  We got Pelligrino, because why not try something different?  Passed on the wine as nothing sounded good and were way too full for desert.

Afterwards, stuffed, we decided to hit up the floor for a little bit longer.  Todd lost his winnings on the slots, I decided to go back to roulette and Todd went to try his hand at the money wheel.  I was in a better groove and walked away from that table ahead (but still behind) and Todd lost at the money wheel right away.  We were getting tired, but I decided to go crazy and take a couple of bets on the fruit wheel.  I put $5 on the 15 to one odds on my second spin and won $75.  The single largest win I ever had :)

We were ready to go, but they don't make it easy to cash out.  By the time we found the right place, all the smoke had gotten to us and we had twin headaches.  We headed home wishing we'd had Tylenol.  We're pretty exciting people, right?? :)  We listened to Kid Rock, got home a little past 9pm and Bobby headed home.

Adam was still up, though Bobby thought he was asleep so I went in to tuck him in "MOMMY" he said in a stage whisper, his whole face lighting up.  "Good Night!"

I had a wonderful, romantic date night (I had reminded Todd on the way there that the last time we had gone was because we were trying to get some grown-up things in before Adam was born....and he was right!).  No kid talk.  Just hanging out together.  But it's also nice to come home to those little chubby cheeks, crazy curls and big smiles.  So the best part is that I feel lucky...I have so much...I have a loving husband, great kids and amazing friends.

No matter the other challenges I'm facing, these things keep me grounded.