Hello, Friday. You snuck up pretty quickly this week.
Doesn’t it seem like the week flies by much faster when you go out during a week night? Or is that just the grandma in me taking the reins?
I rarely, if ever, have evening plans from Monday through Wednesday. Thursday? Sometimes, but still unlikely. So maybe I’m getting old or maybe I’m just being responsible – either way, that’s just how it is these days. And I’m okay with that.
But I’m also okay with exceptions to the norm. And this week was one of those exceptions. On Wednesday night, Sam and I actually had plans. A mid-week date night, if you will.
We started out the night with dinner at a Thai restaurant called Asparagus.
I could have sworn that we had been at Asparagus sometime recently. After a quick look back at my blog archives, I realized that we hadn’t dined there since February 2011 [the beauty of blogging]. On Valentine’s Day, actually. Time sure does fly.
Looking back on that post from last year really makes me wish I had ordered dessert on Wednesday. Flourless chocolate cake? How did I manage to miss that on the menu?
Instead, my dessert ended up being a huge doughy pretzel with cheese and mustard. Well, I only call it dessert because it was after dinner – but maybe it was more of an after dinner snack. That makes it sound more appetizing, no?
Anyway.
For my drink, I ordered an Asparagus Iced Coffee – which I’m told was a mixture of espresso and sweetened condensed milk.
I asked for a heavy on the espresso-light on the milk coffee and it came out perfectly.
So there’s another sign of either age or maturity – or quite possibly both. I went for the caffeine with dinner. Well crap, maybe I’m just boring. And why am I unnecessarily overanalyzing my drink choices from two nights ago? Moving on.
For my entrée, I ordered the Pad Thai with tofu.
As expected, it was delicious. I am obsessed with the sweet and sour tamarind sauce! I think a re-creation is in order – I mean, I am still doing the whole change it up challenge.
Since Wednesday was the Chinese New Year, our waitress also gave us a tin of jasmine green tea as a thank you for dining with them.
Cute idea, right?
Both Sam and I were dressed color appropriate for our next stop. Can you guess where we were headed?
Why, to the Madhouse, of course!
Home of the Chicago Bulls!
It’s also been quite a while since I’ve been to a Bulls game, so I was pretty excited to cheer on a team of which I’ve been a lifelong fan.
Seriously, my family was at every other game during the Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman years. My friends and I would secretly check out the players using the binoculars…but that’s besides the point.
The game was super close – Pacers up, Bulls up, Pacers up, Bulls up - but the Bulls ended up losing in the end. The Pacers are pretty damn good this year, so it was a fun game to watch. I may or may not have found a few new crushes out there on the court. Yep, that girl with the binoculars is still here. I don’t think she ever left.
Well, that’s about enough rambling for one day. Counting down the minutes until the weekend! How about you?
<3 Stefanie
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