The Perfect Date

It's not very often that we go out. If and when we do, we usually find ourselves at the same table at the Oak having more than our share of pitchers, debating over the same taboo subjects and stumbling into a cab. Same old same old.

After harassing Ryan for a good week on the importance of romance in a relationship we decided to go out for one of those expensive dates where you actually put on some nice clothes to celebrate our sixth month of marital bliss. (Yes folks we made it! According to Sean there's only 14 years and 6 months left on the lease!)

Well the date had a rough go when I realized that my little black dress is just a bit to "little". I have come to the conclusion that I showed enough cleavage at the wedding to last a lifetime so I nixed the little black dress. So there was the typical drama of me stomping around the house whining that I had nothing to wear and after several prototype outfits, I threw together a nice ensemble and we were on our way.

Dinner at Papagus proved to us that we should really start making reservations before hand. Not that the wait was long but the table was hardly intimate. Oh well it still wasn't a booth at Denny's so we took it. We actually had an intimate conversation and drank some wine. The food was great and we left replete after spending the last half an hour watching this young couple go through what looked like the most uncomfortable first date. It was quite amusing. They could have used some wine themselves!

We headed to Pub Italia next where we sampled the beer bible and made friends with this drunk girl. She was rather entertaining with her frenglish. I couldn't believe the bar tender actually remembered me after two years. I just couldn't believe he was still there. It's really the nicest pub in Ottawa. Ryan is sticking with his Oak. The ever faithful pubgoer he is.

The comedy club was brilliant and we had great seats too. Laughed our butts off especially at the relationship jokes which we can now perfectly relate too and find the humour too. They even had a scottish guy up there cracking jokes. (We found out later that he wasn't scottish and were rather disapointed). Caught a cab and went home. All in all it was a night that was spent with just the two of us and was thoroughly enjoyable. No squabbles, no conflict of opinions. It was nice. It was perfect.