Date night #2 since Eleanor has arrived. I know, I know, it's something we need to do more often, but it's not easy when we don't know (or trust) that many people to come hang out with our baby girl! I have a friend that I knew while at the Animal Hospital and trust her with Eleanor, so she came over while Scott and I went out.
So what did we do? I've been wanting to see a movie for a while now and was planning to go on my own while Scott watched Eleanor, but I just haven't implemented my plan for a Mommy's Night Out - or as a friend of mine calls it Daddy Date Night (Daddy goes on a "date" with Baby). I had heard great reviews (via Facebook, so I think it counts more) on Inception and I thought it was playing at our Kirkland movie theater at 7:00.
Great, except Scott didn't get home until almost 6:30 (he takes the VanPool and is normally home by 6:15 at the latest). Then our babysitter said she was on her way, but running late due to traffic. Hmm, maybe we wouldn't make it after all. Luckily, when I checked Fandango, it said the movie started at 7:20... phew! So we grabbed some dinner first.
Dinner was very romantic, we drove through Wendy's. I wasn't starving so I ordered an Apple Pecan Chicken Salad (I had never had this before and normally I'm not willing to try new things if I'm starving!). Scott got a burger and chili instead of fries. Alright, so we have our food and we head off to go find parking at the theater. Found the parking garage (after some bickering over me telling Scott where to go in the parking lot), park and get ready to eat.
Hmm, a plastic knife, but no fork (for my SALAD!) and no spoon for Scott's chili. Perfect!!! At this point, it was almost 7:20 already and I knew we didn't have time to drive back over to Wendy's for utensils, so I ate my salad with a knife... sort of like using 1 chopstick to stab and lift things to my mouth. Stupid Wendy's!!! But at that point, it was more comical than anything, so I stabbed the chicken and ate it and tried to find the apples and candied pecans. That part of the salad was good, the lettuce and the bleu (or they call it blue) cheese was not delicious.
The rest of the date night was pretty uneventful. At one point in the movie, I leaned over to Scott and suggested we skip out early and go get some wine and rent the rest of the video on Netflix. The movie was pretty captivating and while Scott said "That's fine, whatever you want" or something to that effect, I got the feeling that he was there for the duration. Not that I was itching to leave, but I thought it might be more fun. After spending $19 on a full-price movie, however, we sat there!!! Seriously!? No movie is worth $19 in my opinion, but... I guess that's why I almost never go to them anymore!
Future date nights will likely consist of dinner, talking, and drinking! :)
The best news is that Eleanor was pretty good for Malia and she (Eleanor) was sleeping in our bed when we got home, so we had a cocktail in our own (and much cheaper) bar... while we both checked our email/facebook and watched TV.
Hmm, I guess we sort of missed the point of connecting, but I think we both got a welcome break from the bambino for a couple of hours and we will work to have more "re-connecting" dates in the future!
Now, to enjoy the last weekend before my Hell week which will consist of watcing 28 - 1 hour video sessions for work and then writing a report. WHILE managing my husband, who has ear surgery on Monday, and my daughter. Thankfully, the babysitter/nanny is lined up to help out a bit.
Baby crying means I'm done with this post!
Stay tuned for Episode 3 - Coming Soon!
Sabrina
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