Date night

This was from a few weeks ago, I'd started writing for the blog, then just didn't have time to post it.

We had a pretty good weekend, although not as energetic as we’d hoped for. Both girls have been sick – Liz with just a fever and Ashley with a cough. Ashley’s started out as allergies, turned into an icky cough and tiredness. So, we had to stay in for most of the weekend. Anthony and I did manage to go out Saturday night for a date – our first time since we’ve been here.

It didn’t start out well since the girls were fussy and cranky and didn’t really want us to leave. We had to stay later at the house than we had anticipated. Our original plan was to go eat dinner here in complex with Ryken and then take Ryken back after girls were in bed and go out to a place where they might have music and drinks or something adult like. But, we didn’t end up getting out of the house until late and the place we were going to go eat here in the complex isn’t there anymore (have no idea what happened to it). So, we ended up leaving Ryken with Xiaoshu and taking a cab somewhere. We were still deciding where (had to be nearby with girls sick and all kids with Xiaoshu) when thought we’d try a place we had read about/seen nearby – called Obelisco. It’s “South American” cuisine. The food was actually really good – we had steaks that were fantastic and a very different salad which was good also. The appetizer we ordered was sausage with bread – and that’s what it was – sausage on bread – we decided they could have done something a bit more fancier that that – but all in all, the meal was great. We enjoyed having a meal with no kids and we actually talked about lots of stuff, not just the kids!

Anthony's brilliant idea for the evening was what the world needs for their salads - RANCH dressing. Yes, he thinks that if all the world had ranch dressing, it would be a much better place. Here, you usually find Thousand Island or Salad Dressing (mayonnaise) for salads. And for chicken or buffalo wings, it's blue cheese - ewww. We did find a bottle of Ranch at the local import grocery store (Jenny Lou's) and have decided when we go out to eat American food, we need to take it with us for salads and wings - ranch just makes it so much better.