The Holtonian

Date Night

Last night we had date night and wifey informed me we were going ball room dancing.... I winced in pain and realized the only way to make ball room dancing fun was for me to do the robot the entire time thus enraging both my wife and the instructor and being ostracized from both of them and in the proverbial dog house, my second home. Luckily for me we didn't go ball room dancing. We went first to South Side Grill for dinner. I've now notched yet another snobby pricey restaurant to my belt. So far Northshore, Southside, Luciano (weep, sob), St. Johns, and Canyon Grill. My favorite remains Canyon Grill. Although South Side gave the Canyon a run for its money. We had a glass of wine that was awesome, a house salad with field greens, bacon, and blue cheese with a balsmic dressing. We couldn't decide what to order, that is wifey couldn't. We always decide two things that we like and then I get one and she gets the other. She decided on the Filet since the sides looked better and I decided on the Lamb because I love eating lamb. The lamb also had a currey sauce, wife doesn't like curry, I do. It was great and very good too. The lamb was so rare I could here a little "bah bah" eminating from the plate and I may be mistaken but I could have sworn i heard little Bo Peep crying in the Kitchen, serves her right, irresponsible little wench.

Then we went to the Symphony which was very nice. We sat in maybe the fifth row which was cool. The main piece was Dvorak # 7 which was awesome. Unfortunately they had some opera like singer before that. She sang some sort of Mexican type opera and murdered the spanish language. I wish I spoke spanish so I could know how badly she wasn't saying the words. At one point I almost started laughing because she sang "LA NINOS" which I just thought, "Thats Spanish for 'the ninos.'" That and the lady looked strait out of an 80s movie. Blue sequened dress, pony tail pulled to the side, and other fashion fopaws that my wife pointed out. She looked like she was the actress from Crocidile Dundee... it was sad. Anyway it was a lot of fun despite my cynicism. Today we're not sure what to do now our house hunt is pretty much turned off for the season. Wish we had a yard to work on or something... wait not yet.