Date night 7/52 ~ The date that almost wasn't

We didn't really have a destination this week.

Last week we forgot to pull a new date out.

I didn't think it would be that big of a deal, and it really shouldn't have been.

Except Saturday ended up being one of those days that we were both off.

If it's one or the other it's not a big deal.

Both of us though means crankiness & blah.

Added to the lack of enthusiasm was the not-so-minor detail

that Matt had to work again all weekend.

I had thought that we could go to the neighborhood coffee shop,

before dinner.

Matt thought we could go after dinner.

Really this should not have been a big deal, but it was.

All 3 kids told us we had to go out (love this!)

Matthew even pulled out our date night tin & started pulling out ideas.

He mixed up being silly & trying to be helpful.

He found the idea "dessert at a new restaurant" and

insisted it was perfect. Which really it was.

We headed out,
and decided to try a restaurant that we haven't been to in a long time.

When we share desserts I usually pick so this time I let Matt.

He chose lava cake.

Alghough I thought it was pretty good,
Matt has this memory of eating some very very good lava cake somewhere

in Oregon so this didn't make the tasty cut for him.

I have no clue where that was but

I now want to find a fabulous recipe to surprise him with.

All in all this ended up being a good thing.

We had some good necessary conversation &

learned some new things about each other.

We will definitely try this again when we are in sync.

For our next date I decided we need to do something fun.

So we are going to go to an arcade & play games.

It will be fun to act like kids & goof off a little bit.

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