dashing, minus the dining

hello blogging world!

much to my husbands and stonifer's disgust, i have decided to start a blog. this has occurred for several reasons, but primarily because i've decided that some of our shenanigans must be immortalized for our posterity. what better way than to blog about it? i look up to so many bloggers- my bff8 caitlin tapparrison and some other people who-must-not-be-named (primarily because they don't know i blogstalk them. so basically i'm protecting what little dignity i have left). so here it goes world!

so justin and i have tried to establish friday as date night like most couples try to do. sometimes we'll go out to eat or dine in and watch a movie, nothing too fancy for us poor newlyweds. well, friday i suggested we just go out for a drive because we couldn't think of  a thing to do or place to go to eat. we drove around for 15 min before we drove past a brazillian grill. justin has been dying to go to one of these places since he got home from the mish, but alas, we had not gone yet. it was a place in summerlin = fancy schmancy (hint #1 that it was a bad idea)so justin said no to going there because it'd prob be too expensive so we kept a'truckin. well, we don't go a half-mile before he changes his mind. as we were walking up we saw that this place had waiters in tuxedos (hint #2)  and a bar-waterfall (hint #3)- justin got cold feet and wanted to bolt but i figured since we had gotten that far, we could duck in and check out the menu. what happened next, i can't fully understand. it all just happened so fast.

instantly we were seated and were OBVIOUSLY underdressed. we were seated and explain that there was no menu (hint #4) and that they only had little coasters that we could turn over, depending on if we wanted meat or just use the salad bar (which had little salad but other fancy aka-gross-crap). then he explained that JUST the salad bar was about $25, the meat would be $40. you should have seen our faces- we just starred at him in terror. pure, poor married college-student terror. going to the olive garden is a big treat for us- spending $100 on a meal? esp when we're spending all our upcoming honeymoon! so the waiters came by, gave us bread, poured us water. we just sat there in terror, much like a deer does in headlights. we then decided we had to dash. so we picked up our bags and made the long trip out of the door. i have NEVER been more embarrassed in my whole life! we peeled out of there like bandits! we ended up eating at the four kegs (aka the bar justin claims to have spent the better part of his childhood at) which was about the exact opposite of the brazillian grill, but still a great night.


and it we hadn't gone 5 miles before justin piped up "hey. remember that time we went to that expensive brazillian place and ran out of it after we were seated?"