Four years!

We had a wonderful date night getaway for our 4 year anniversary! The best part about it was the fact that it was only 15 minutes away from our house. We made reservations at the Oxford Suites Hotel and then we had dinner reservations at the neighboring restaurant, Tucanos, a Brazilian Grill restaurant. The restaurant was pretty pricey but not too bad for all you get. $20 buys you unlimited salad festival bar and unlimited meat rotations. The rotation went like this: you have a red and green ended block and when you're ready for the rotation of meats to begin, you flip the block to green. When you need a break from rotation, then flip it to red. Although when we flipped our block to red, the guy still came over and gave us more so they probably don't pay much attention to what color your block is anyway. ha! The salad bar was wonderful! There were all sorts of new foods to be tasted--I revisited hardboiled quail eggs--they were so good!! They have probably about 60-80 choices of things to eat. I think if we go back, I will just get the salad bar. The meats weren't so great. They were really fatty and greasy. Not what we expected. We're not used to eating that much fatty, greasy meats. So now I feel kinda sick to my stomach, not to mention, when we got home this morning, the house was really stinky because I had forgotten that I had put a chicken container in the trash and didn't take the trash out. It smelled DISGUSTING. Like that sickly sweet sewer smell. BARF!!

Anyway, after we rolled our fat filled stomachs (reminds me of Templeton the rat from "Charlotte's Web" after he scarfed down so much carnival food) out the door, we headed back to our hotel. We needed to go to the room and stretch out to let the food settle. After we started feeling better, we went down to the lower lobby for a wine reception. When you check in, they give you 2 tix each for the wine reception and you can choose from wine, beer or soda. I had a (light) beer to begin with and Kyle had a Cabernet. We sat on the cozy couches and reminisced about college days and when we first met. Then we took advantage of our second free beverage and I had a Chardonnay and Kyle had another Cab. It was a nice place to have conversation. :) We headed back up to the room for the night to sleep in the luxurious king-sized bed. It was probably the best sleep either of us has gotten even in our own bed at home! SO COMFY!! The hotel is extremely quiet and very nicely decorated. We love that place and have decided that we should do that more often. The price for one night isn't that bad for just a single night out every once in awhile.

So that was our date night. Hope you enjoyed reading about it. Now it's back to reality. Boo.