We polished off a few more dates over last week and last weekend. We completed date 6 by heading to The Star for dinner on Wednesday night. It was the eve of the giant storm, so we sat by the window in the restaurant and waited for mother nature to unleash her fury while dining on meatballs, salad, and pesto chicken pizza. I’m beginning to feel the little twinge of “missing out” on the adult beverages of the season (I have taken to smelling anything KC drinks these days), but the housemade lemonade at The Star almost made me forget about the fact that I can’t imbibe like everyone else this season.
Date 7 was, I have to say, pretty special. On Saturday night we went out for a fancy meal at Michel Bistro with KC’s siblings and their significant others (we opted to all go out to dinner together in lieu of getting each other gifts this year). That wasn’t really part of the date though — that came after dinner, when rather than driving straight home, KC drove me through Piedmont (where the rich people live) so we could see all the Christmas lights. There were some pretty awesome displays, but there were also a lot of houses lacking in Christmas cheer. (Um, what’s the point in having a bunch of money if you’re not going to spend it on amazing Christmas lights? Clearly we have different values.) The best display by far was this giant house that had a glassed-in sunroom visible from the street. They had strung lights down the beams between the glass panels and had a giant Christmas tree right in the middle — so festive! And of course, I love that KC knows me well enough to know that I’ll get kid-on-Christmas excited over just driving around and looking and lights. (I love him. Just wait for the mushy post coming up next week on our 10 year anniversary!)
Our 8th date happened on Sunday night. We had spent the day at a family Christmas party, and I was pretty tired by the time we got home (and had zero interest in cooking dinner). We decided to head out to Boot and Shoe Service for dinner, which was delicious (as usual). We shared ricotta and toast, a salad of arugula, frisee, almonds and feta, the classic margherita pizza (my go-to) and a linzertorte for dessert. They had some delicious-looking cocktails on the menu, which I was a little bummed I couldn’t partake in, but the housemade ginger-mint soda was a nice second place.
It’s crazy that Christmas is next week already (I guess I should probably get my shopping done…) Good thing we’ve only got 4 dates to go!