It included a DATE!
Two, in fact. With my husband, of course. My in-laws came and watched Anja on Friday night and part of Saturday so that Husband and I could get out and remember what it is like to hold hands (when one pair isn’t always pushing a stroller). It was fantastic!
We went to America’s largest indoor water park on Friday night, where I laid waste to this thing that shoots water up (it’s supposed to resemble surfing). All the little 10-year-olds in front of me made it look hard, but if you’ve ever been tubing (pulled behind a speedboat on an innertube across a lake), this was a cakewalk. A cakewalk on water.
Saturday we had a nice brunch with the relatives, and then I took Husband on a date of surprises. First surprise - a stop at the Mall of America where robots (which people built) were fighting. We only got to see two fights before one robot exploded into flames and they had to take a break to clean up. Sad.
Then I took him to three places for lunch. Yes, three. Place number one was the wrong place; they directed us to place #2, which was too expensive, so we went to P.F. Chang’s. Husband had never been there before anyway, and he loved it. We shared Mu Shu Pork and some kind of lamb–yummy!
Lastly, I took him to the iMax theater at the Minnesota Zoo and we saw a 3-D movie about the Okavango Delta (in the Kalahari desert). My goodness has 3-D technology improved since I last saw one (circa 1995)! I could almost feel the weeds brushing across my face and reach out and touch the cracks in the elephant’s tusk. It was 45 minutes of African fantasy! And I had coupons for everything but lunch.
Husband liked it all, so: SUCCESS! And I had a good time, too. We decided we need to “date” more often.
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How about you people? What do you do for fun (cheap) dates?