Friday, May 17, 2019

Date Your Spouse

OK, I love to go out to eat.  You all know this.  
And May is my Month.  
I mentioned to Eric last month as May approached, that sometime in May I'd like to go have Sushi and Fogo de Chao. Unfortunately, birthday week barely went according to plan.  
So it wasn't until this week we got to go where we wanted.  


On Wednesday, Eric took me downtown for lunch.  
As we were going down Washington Street towards Fogo, I got a view of the tops of these buildings. I'm pretty sure our night at the Conrad down the street, we had views of their roofs from our room.  
I like this view too.  Sometimes when I'm downtown, I think how neat it would be to live down here. 
Expensive though. 


But oh the eats! 
I love Fogo - some days I just crave a pile of meat.  
Though their salad bar is good. 
I was so moved by the yummies since it had been a while since we'd been (maybe Rio Olympics, maybe Easter a couple years back, not sure), too long.   I tucked in, so did Eric. 
We went to town. I found myself wanting to only eat the beef.  
My favorite was the picanha, top sirloin.  
And this fella.  He and I both enjoy some good beast.  
It was so good.  
It's hard not to stuff yourself!


So we make sure, that after every time we go to Fogo, we get this Papaya Creme for dessert. 
It's like fruity ice cream, if we're good they'll top it with a little Cream de Cassis. 
 The story goes that inside papaya there are enzymes that aid in the digestive process.  I haven't researched that, but I will say, I've been here on days that I get the Papaya Creme, and I have days where I don't.  Let's just say that on the days we get the Creme, even if we have absolutely no room, I feel better when we go home.  I love the meat so much, I stuffed myself. But I fill in the gaps in my stomach with this ice cream, and it works. Not sure how.  But I love it.


Take the circle north. 

We enjoyed our lunch so much that when it was time to leave, we realized Eric had a meeting in Carmel, and we had to drive up there directly to drop him off.   So we took Meridian straight up. We never do that.  It was actually a nice drive up there, the bummer was staying there until rush hour and having to navigate back in that traffic with construction.  Good thing I'd had an amazing lunch. 


Two dates in one week! 

Yesterday, I had to go to Carmel again.  It's an even longer story.  Let's just say my Doctor is making me jump through a lot of hoops, so I had to get to get a little work done.  I had it done last year, and it was by far the worst procedure I'd ever had done.  I anticipated feeling pretty terrible afterwards.  So I figured we'd have lunch together afterwards.  However, this procedure wasn't as bad as last year.  
I didn't feel so terrible.  

Eric suggested sushi. 

We'd tried Miracle Sushi last year for the first time on our 20 dates for 20 years. 
And it was so Good, I wanted to go back. 
So I put it on our Date List for this year.  
The goal being that we want to go on at least want to go on one date a month. 
For our mental health. 

So Miracle Sushi it was. 


Two salads. 
I love Seaweed Salad.  
Eric seemed to recall us trying this seafood salad, which was cucumbers, tuna, salmon in a hint of spicy sauce.  We got both.  And they were GOOD!


Isn't that Pretty! 

The White and Green was the Miracle with white tuna and wasabi. 
The Crispy Unagi was covered with our favorite, Eel.  
We got a fancy spider roll called the Creamy Crab.  
And E always has to get spicy things, so we got a Spicy Californian.  

We ate well and it was good. 
I can't wait to go back. 
I want to go back right now. 

Sunday, May 5, 2019

The Mixtape Tour


For my Birthday, Kathleen wrote me and asked if I wanted to go to the New Kids On The Block Mixtape Tour show that was coming this weekend.  
I was like YES!!! 

Then I realized we had other things going, but blessedly, my family and Kathleen were flexible, and we were able to make it all happen.  
So she kidnapped me and we went downtown for my Ultimate Youth Extravaganza! 
Picture it - NKOTB, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Salt -n-Pepa, and Naughty by Nature. 
It was Cathy of 1991's Ultimate Dream Come True! 



There was so much Awesome stuff!  
It was Vintage Awesome. 

Going in, I decided I wanted a Concert T-shirt.  
I had never seen any of these performers live before.  We had always been too broke to ever see NKOTB in concert, ever.  Nor get a fancy Tshirt if I was privileged to go to a Concert. 


So Kathleen and I waited in the world's longest line to get a T-shirt.  
We got matching T-shirts.  Because we haven't done that in a while. Also, waiting in line wasn't too terrible because I had so much fun people watching. #GeekingOut


Would it be terrible to hunt them down at a different concert and go again?!


Oh yes, we're ready now! 
And yes, I'm totally sporting my vintage hypercolor t-shirt that I pulled out of the bag of stuff I want to make into a quilt, but haven't yet.  Don't think I will with this one.  <3

Beautiful lights. 
So, there was this app that NKOTB recommended.  It didn't want to cooperate on my phone, but in theory, it turned on the flashlight for all participants.  It worked for Kathleen. I just opted to take a photo of everyone else's. 


They gussied up the Stage so it looked like a Mix Tape. 
Brilliant! 


The lights and confetti, how fun is this?!  
It really was the most amazing concert.  



Debbie Gibson sat down at the piano for her second performance, and started playing Lost in your eyes.  At which point, Joey McIntyre came out and began singing with her. 
And I cried. 


It was the most awesome duet ever.  
Even though I couldn't really hear it well, I still cried.


So truthfully, the sound kind of sucked.  Can you even tell which songs these are? 
I don't know if you can, or if not.  I could, because they've been driven into my bones. 
That's what growing up in the 80s and 90s was. 
True great music driven into our bones.  
And half of them came back to town on this night.  
So freaking awesome. 


I didn't go to any concerts between Weird Al and the Monkees in 1987, and John Denver in 1993. 
I was never cool, I never got invited, and we were broke.  
That's a crucial thing for a teenager to miss.   I don't doubt I missed out.  
But this event, this amazing gift, I made up for it all one night. 
For once, I got to be one of the cool kids. 
And it was Awesome.  

Thank You Kathleen. <3