Date Night!

Date night once a week is now a mandatory event! We started the first week's date night at Snack Bar on South Congress. We like it because they have lots of gluten free options, locally sourced, organic and righteously raised food, awesome atmosphere, fancy drinks, Wine Wednesdays, is close to home and you can bring your dog! Bertie came to our date night with us because he needs to practice being polite, and we feel that it's important that he "be his own dog." He tends to follow the lead of Marybelle, and act like a jerk in public when they are together, so we thought it might be good for them to practice going out separately. He is much more polite and even a bit timid without his big bad chihuahua by his side. We came across a dog named "Natalia" close to the end of the night that displayed the worse manners ever! She jumped onto her mom's table and wouldn't stop yipping at all the dogs and people around her. We left before Natalia and her mom got too engrossed in their mom and dog date, but not before we got an eyeful of Natalias mom's underpants as she leaned over in her dress to attend to the bad dog. Overall, it was a great evening. This couscous salad was the bomb. It had cojita cheese, sliced avocado, a slice of pineapple and a vinagrette. Yummo! We think we should make this at home, and even pondered throwing a fried egg over it for a breakfast snack. Also on the menu: brussel sprouts, a 31 dollar bottle of vino (delicious!) at half off, and a garden salad with grilled jumbo ship. At the end of the night we were tired, and passed out on the bed with the lights on. I woke up to close down the house and had to snap this shot of my adorable family on the bed. Only the pumpkin head cat (and myself of course) is missing from the photo.