Date Night

NurseXX works weekend plan, which means two of the three shifts she works are Friday and Saturday nights. She gets paid a substantial differential for those shifts, but it also means we rarely get a weekend evening out. She signs a 6 month contract, and is allowed 2 weekends off per contract. She usually takes off the weekends nearest our birthdays. Well, LittleXX turns 4 on Tuesday, so my wife took this weekend off. And since she was off work, we got a babysitter and had q date night.

We go out an a fairly regular basis, but on weeknights, so it was interesting being out on the weekend--a different atmosphere.

We started off with dinner at Romano's Macaroni Grill, one of my favorite restaurants. I love the food. They offer the mainstream Italian choices for the unimaginative diner, but also have some truly inspired choices as well. I had the grilled salmon, with cous-cous and spinach with an awesome lemon zest zing. My wife had grilled halibut with steamed vegetables. We topped off our meals with seasonal berries drizzled in acacia honey. I also had a beer for the first time since starting on Lexapro. I took it slow, and just had one and it seemed to go ok. The best part of the meal was the fact we both stayed in our calories for the day. We also had a really nice server, and got good service too.

After dinner we headed to the movie theater. The debit cards we use are reward cards, and we'd earned some AMC gift cards--so nice not having to "pay" for the movie. We saw The Town with Ben Affleck. It was really good, definitely worth seeing if you are looking for a decent flick. And it's set in Boston, one of my favorite cities right now.

It was a really nice evening--we had good fun.