March 30, 2014
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Its been five years. Don't mind us.
So, last night the hubby and I got our first date night in roughly five years. Yes, you heard me right...five years! Now, we've done day dates while our daughter is at school but we haven't had a out at night date in five years. Our daughters Godfather volunteered to sit a while ago but for the past couple of months we've been training him and prepping him for babysitting her. Basically, just making sure that he disciplined her and that she would listen to what he would tell to do and not to do. Well, last night my husband made a statement of 'I wish we could go out to dinner tonight.' and our friend said 'okay.' Before you know it we were out and in a cab and on our way to the casino.
Now, they had recently done an overhaul on the casino. Its now a hotel/casino and we had gone there once since they had finished up the project of adding the hotel into the casino but it was in the afternoon and we didn't have that much time to spend there as we did last night. Since it was so long since we've been out at night we basically ended up having an adventure of being awkward and out of our element which is funny seeing as how back when we were newlyweds and bored we'd just go to the casino for a few hours. Anyways, we got there and we located the fancy restaurant and the bathrooms. We walked around and tried to locate where the blackjack tables happened to be now, where they had the slot machines, where the ATMs were located and then we spent a good ten minutes debating on if we wanted to eat now or later. Once we decided to grab an early dinner we walked over to get a table. They said our wait would be 20 to 30 minutes and they handed us a pager thing which my husband put in his back pocket. We walked around the casino for a bit and by the time my husband hit up the ATM the pager was going off. I grabbed the table while he hit up the ATM.
We ended up with a table inside even though there was patio but then again since the sun was setting it really wasn't a good time to sit outside and eat anyways. So yeah, my husband was a bit antsy during dinner. He was mostly worried that our daughter was giving our friend had a hard time. He went outside a few times and went into the casino a few times. He did eventually calm down and have dinner with me. We got our drinks and we placed our order for dinner. Our food showed up and he ordered Lo-Mein. His only issue with his food was that there was a huge layer of carrots on top of it. He had to dig through to get to his noodles. I ended up getting the surf and turf.
Basically, that's sliced steak with shrimp, mushrooms, onions and green beans over rice. Clearly, we were eating at an Asian restaurant. I was very impressed with my food. The steak and the shrimp were done to perfectly and the green beans were perfectly steamed. I was very pleased with my dinner to say the least. Once we were done with our dinner we ended up playing in the casino. Of course, I had numerous piece of rice and such stuck in my teeth so I hit up the bathroom before doing any blackjack.
As requested by my husband: this is the artwork he made while I was finishing my meal. Yes, he cleaned up his area all nice and didn't leave it like this for the wait staff to clean up but still, he was channeling his inner child since we didn't have our own kid with us at the time.
Since I've had my teeth cleaned I keep floss in my purse now. I wanted to get the stuff out of my mouth so I went to the bathroom and took out the floss. Yes, I am that weird person with floss on me at all times. Anyways, I had a few strange looks from women in the bathroom but hey, with the amount of money that's been spent on my mouth I figure I better take good care of it. Once I was done with that I went to the blackjack table where my husband was waiting for me..
Well, I'm the one that's best at blackjack so I got to take the drivers seat here. For my first time back at a real table and not playing internet blackjack I didn't do too bad. We spent a good hour at that table and I turned a 10 dollar bill into 125 dollars. We ended up only leaving the table because there was a Russian guy there who was very serious and we were all about having fun. After that we walked around the casino for a while and we did end up getting lost since the place is now a circle and it all literally looks the same no matter where in the circle you happen to be.
We only had about four hours to play and mess around there but I think we made the best of our adult time out and about in the world after dark. At one point we sat down to people watch and some of the things that these women were wearing to the casino made me feel like I was overdressed. There were also people all over the casino taking selfies here and there. We bounced back and forth between certain blackjack tables and played some roulette. This time we really didn't do the slot machine thing mostly because it was a Saturday night and pretty crowded.
At one point we found a bar at the very, very back of the casino. Now, this is where we ran into the table of very drunk men. They started calling my husband Kevin Bacon and one of them hit on me at one point. We hung out there for a minute or two mostly because the bartender was busy and because the group of drunk men happened to be very fascinated by us for some reason..I'm betting it was booze. Once we were able to leave that area we hit up the gift shop. You know, just to make us look more like tourists.
The last time we came to the casino the gift shop wasn't as cool. They added potted plants(which since we have a garden now my husband wanted one but I wasn't about to carry that around the casino or even in the cab), they added jewelry, little trinkets and dresses. Yes, I love dresses! I got this really cute pink and white dress and my husband grabbed a cowboy hat which yes, made him look even more like Kevin Bacon from "Tremors". Anyways, shortly after that we ended up leaving. We could have stayed later but our friend had to be up early the following day.
We got home from our awkward night out after the dark and our little one was still up which yeah, isn't a big deal since we've let her stay up late more than once to watch a movie that and it was a Saturday night. Sure enough, everything was fine while we were gone. Our little one got to play hide and seek, Uno, they tossed a ball around outside and had some pizza for dinner. Needless to say the last time we had a date night we didn't leave until after she was in bed since she was rather young at that point and now she is highly independent and not as hard to handle. Yeah, we're going start doing this date night thing at least once a month so that we actually have an idea so that we have a better game plan. Lesson learned: Even though you are married, try to go out on dates. I swear, most of the time neither of us had any idea of what to do 'on a date' but hey, we're married so we're allowed to be fumbling and awkward. As an added bonus I don't have to worry about eating like a rabbit to make a good impression. Yep, there's my ramblings for today.
