Friday night, thanks to Grammy and Grampy, Jenny and I had our longest post-Brenden date night yet! We started by going roller skating at Interskate in Lewisville, which is the best deal I’ve seen for roller skating in the Irving area. On Friday it was $5 each plus $3 each for skate rental before 6, and the rink was open all day instead of just a few hours like some rinks. We both tried inline skates, which we quickly decided were fun but less stable than the “quads” of our youth. Most of the customers at 5:00pm on Friday were under 10, and they did NOT play a slow song for couples skating. The only people anywhere near our age were watching children. For the races, there were two boys’ brackets: 6 and under or 7 and above. I chose to sit this one out, which is good because I would have gotten smoked by a teenager who worked for the rink. We still had a blast! Jenny took a picture with her phone of me skating and sent it to our vacationing friend Alexis, who is thinking about having a skating party for her birthday. She sent us back a picture of her at Epcot, where she and her husband were enjoying the Food and Wine Festival. Technology amazes me.

After our feet and legs grew tired, we had dinner at Romano’s. This is a big deal because it’s the first time we’ve done a multi-part date (i.e. a meal AND and activity) apart from Brenden. Dinner was excellent as usual, and we got to use a couple of gift certificates. Finally we stopped at the Super Target to get some wine (see previous post on alcohol sales in Irving) and returned home to find two very happy grandparents.

Once they went home and we put B to bed, we opened some cheap bubbly and watched the original Ghostbusters, which I don’t think I’d ever seen before. Good times, good times. Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!