A Little Fun

A few weeks ago Neil and I went out for our first official "Date Night". You see, now that we've been married almost two years we have decided to add a little spontaneity to our marriage by scheduling an official Date Night. I realize that scheduling spontaneity is somewhat paradoxical but we have found that although we get to spend oodles of time together, we seem to have a set routine. In order to ensure that we break away from our usual Pei Wei, Starbucks, then a movie at home routine, we are trading off the responsibility of planning and executing one special date night per month. Neil volunteered (what a gentleman!) to take the first month, May. As you probably guessed, there is no Pei Wei, Starbucks or a movie at home allowed on these official Date Nights. The evening can be as simple or extravagant as the planner would like and our budget allows!

For our first Date Night, which took place on May 31 (we barely squeezed it into May), Neil planned for us to have dinner at Bucca di Beppo and then he took me to the Chocolate Bar for dessert. We began the evening at Bucca's where we were seated in room all to ourselves. There was a really entertaining fountain in the corner of the room. How I wish that I had thought to take a picture of it! It was a marble looking statue of a nude man with the water streaming out of his....ummm..."special bits"! He had a silk flower placed over his "special bits" which I figured was there for the purpose of modesty. It's a family restaurant people! Well, as we were enjoying the meal one of the managers came in and asked us if we would like some music turned on in the room. I commented that we were enjoying the quiet and the noise of the fountain. He just smiled and said that earlier he had needed to add the flower to Mr. Statue because his "stream" was splattering people sitting nearby! Ok, so I was slightly disturbed that the flower wasn't actually for the sake of modesty, but it was pretty funny. :-)

After dinner we scooted over to the Chocolate Bar. Oh my! Heaven! I had never been there. Believe me I have no idea why my husband kept this sweet Houston spot a secret for so long! We decided to split a piece of some sort of large, decadent, Russian, chocolate, moose cake. It was divine. I also enjoyed a small, decaf, vanilla latte with it, which was scrumptious with the chocolate. We tried to snap some pictures with us and the dessert but we weren't very successful.

This was my poor attempt at a "Belgian dip" (or is it "Belgium dip"?)! See the froth on my nose?

After the Chocolate Bar we went home and...

***WARNING***

The following picture may be offensive to some viewers!

I know. I know! This could be considered husband abuse! That there on Neil's head is a suction cup. It's one of those suction cups that adheres to the surface when you pull the hook downward (don't know if that makes sense). I had just opened a new package and was getting ready to put one in the shower. I just started wondering if you could get one to suction to your forehead. I was unsuccessful in my attempts to place it on my own forehead, so I went into the closet where Neil was and asked him if I could stick it on his head! Being the sweet, wonderful, man that he is he rolled his eyes and said that it better not leave a mark on his forehead, because he didn't want to have to explain that at work! Lo and behold.....it stuck!!! Of course I had to take a picture! We realize that we're completely goofy, but even when life is tough there is laughter in our home! I love you Neil!

FYI The suction cup did leave a mark, but it was gone in a few minutes!