Friday Fun

We went on a really fun double dinner date with Michelle and Cody tonight to Red Robin (the new one on Foothill-- way fun and nice!).

Highlights included:

• The bottomless freckled lemonade that Michelle introduced us to--especially when she conned the waitress AND the server into bringing her more at the same time! This girl is TRICKY!
• How quick they seated us and served us... man that's always nice.
• The moment I was really engaged in a conversation with Michelle and Adam gravely put his arm around me and pulled me close and said, "Steph, Larry H. Miller passed away." Not that the news wasn't sad, but the solemnity with which he did it just made us burst out laughing. Ah, I love being his wife.
• My Macho Nachos. I'm the kind of person who only orders things they know they're going to like at restaurants and once I find something I like at a place I tend to order the same thing every time. Throughout the years people have tried to persuade me otherwise and rattled on and on about trying new things and the joy they've found. Good for them. I'm happy in my naiive little bubble world full of food that I really love. (and trust me, there is food out there that I REALLY love: the pasta carbonara from the cheesecake factory, foccaccia bread and the cordon bleu from firehouse, the settebello pizza from settebellos.... mmm, mouth watering, have to stop).
• How hard Michelle and Cody make us laugh. Cody's got this great talent to observe situations and people and find the "common sense humor" in it. Gets me every time.
• Adam asking the waitress before he ordered if the pickles were sweet or not and consequently making her go back to the kitchen to check and taking a long time coming back. Ah, shoot.
• The "Robin" mascot that kept walking by our table. Poor guy in yellow tights...
• Swapping stories about life and money and work and especially hiding in your houses and scaring your spouses (that one's so fun!!)

We really love the Gehrkes and always have so much fun when we hang out with them!