So yes, Valentine’s Day was simply lovely…Rand and I had dinner at Rue Franklin. We started with some appetizers…mine was a tasty pasta dish with rabbit (yes, rabbit) and bacon, and about a pound of butter. He had an arugala salad and also some sea scallops (I’m almost sold on sea scallops…this is the second time I’ve tried his, and they were quite yummy…). For dinner, we both had the filet mignon, which was absolute perfection. I had a chocolate raspberry truffle tort for dessert. Mmmm…
*my apologies to my dear roommie for not sharing details, but the first time I saw her afterwards, she was half sleeping, and so I just gave her the bare-bones description!*
Our waiter was someone I actually recognized…a couple of years ago, Jen and I went to karaoke at the Tudor Lounge and spent most of the night talking to this guy. He went up and simply rocked “Rock the Casbah.”
“I think I know our waiter,” I told Rand.
Before we left, I stopped him and asked if he’d ever done karaoke at the Tudor Lounge. He got a sheepish grin on his face and said “Yeah.”
“Okay, that’s how I know you,” I said. Hee!
After we’d ordered our meal, Rand asked me if I noticed how the wait staff is trained to stroke the man’s ego…I hadn’t. “When you ordered,” he told me, “he just kind of nodded and said okay. But when I ordered, it was ‘Oh, yes, excellent choice sir.”
I did notice this when we ordered our dessert. Rand ordered fruit sorbet, followed up by “Yes, a perfect way to finish off.” Heh. Interesting things that I don’t notice…probably because I don’t do much fine dining. 😉
I also received a beautiful bouquet of roses.
I gave Rand this adorable little book:
And ordered a DVD that I knew he wanted. Unfortunately, the DVD hasn’t come in yet, so he got an IOU.
I also got him the “Romance” edition of magnetic poetry. To make it a little extra-special, I bought a magnetic dry erase board and wrote a little poem for him. It was a big hit. (Maybe I can get him to take a photo of it for me?) 🙂
(aside…how cool is magnetic poetry? and this? I didn’t even know there was such a thing!)
I hope everyone had a pleasant day!
More on my adventures in substitute teaching later…