Jerilee gave us the gift of a date night last night! She came after work, and Brady made it home shortly before that, so we got ourselves ready and out the door around 4:30.
Now that we have this enormous bus, if felt pretty hilarious to take it out, just the two of us.
We planned this evening away a while ago, to go to a concert we were anticipating. Sadly, the concert was postponed until February, so we changed our plans and decided to go out for a yummy dinner, and Christmas shop.
Before we went to supper, we quickly hit the mall nearby and did our shopping there. We never get to that mall, so it was really convenient to get those few places taken care of! When I went to drool over the Mac counter, one of the girls working there told me she liked my lipstick, so I basically felt like I fit in 😉 It wasn’t even a Mac lipstick! We got everything we went for, and then headed to supper at the Cactus Club.
We’ve only been there once before (though Brady went a few times in Calgary when he was younger) and had really enjoyed it! We were seated right away, and our server came. Our servers, actually. One was training the other. They came and took our drink orders, but were out of the beer Brady ordered. The seasoned server of the two suggested Brady try this concoction on the condition that, if he didn’t like it, he could order something else, free of charge. Brady agreed to it, and we both got our drinks. Both were delicious. Then we ordered our meals. I ordered the Hunter Chicken, which I would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who isn’t afraid of a few mushrooms. It was super rich and flavorful. Brady ordered a burger, as he always does, and once again, the one server suggested for him to try the truffle fries and said he could ask for regular fries if he didn’t like the truffle fries. Once again, the server was correct, and the truffle fries were very good! At one point, our server came by to ask how everything was tasting, and I told him it was all so tasty, and such a nice atmosphere. That we were really really happy. And then he said he wanted to buy us dessert!
When he came by our table with the dessert menu, he lay it down, and then said “If I can make a recommendation…” We said “we’ll take it” and handed him the menu back, haha! He hadn’t steered us wrong yet! And he didn’t the third time around either. We had this delicious trio of caramel chocolate mousse. It was amazing. Chocolate mousse on the bottom, warm caramel foam on top, with some sponge toffee chunks in the middle. Ridiculous. I really, really loved that he treated us so well. We felt like the most important people in the restaurant, and even if we weren’t anything special, and he said the same stuff to everyone else, it felt great. He was great at his job.
We left the restaurant feeling really happy, and really full! But we were on a mission! We ran around and did some very successful Christmas shopping! We didn’t get everything, but we got lots from the places that we don’t usually take the kids, which was a huge accomplishment. We got almost everything we needed for the kids, so the rest of Christmas shopping will be much easier. We have so few things left to buy, and while we had a bunch that we needed to order online, we took care of almost all of that this morning already. So we were feeling really good about our shop last night.
We had originally figured we’d go grab dessert after our shop, but thanks to our awesome server, we were full to the brim with food 🙂 Instead, we grabbed coffees and headed home, where Jerilee was holding down the fort. Thank you thank you thank you Jerilee!!!!!
So date night was a great success! It doesn’t even need to be said, really. I super duper like my husband…