Date Night

I don't think that we're alone in our feelings about being new parents and never wanting to leave our little one. We leave him enough when we have to go to work during the day...I treasure every spare minute and want to spend it with him! However, we do understand that mommy & daddy also need some grown-up time, so last night, Zeb and I had a date night.


What a great night in Fort Wayne -- who says Fort Wayne has nothing fun to do?! We had an amazing time. First, we went to the Living Christmas Tree. It is an annual production filled with some dance, drama and of course, Christmas carols! This is the second time that we've gone and it was just as amazing this time as the first time I saw it. The stage is set up with a huge tree...so big that about 100 or so (I don't know, I'm guessing on that number) singers sit in the tree and sing. It's too hard to explain, so here are some pictures (the best we could get)....

We went to a 4:00 show, and the big joke there was that that is the time all the old people go...I guess Zeb and I are old!

After the show, we went to an amazing restaurant called the Bourbon Street Hideaway. If you live in Fort Wayne and haven't heard of it, I'm not surprised, but you MUST go. We love watching the Food Network and seeing all of these amazing restaurants, and we also talk about how we wish Fort Wayne would have more restaurants other than "chain" ones. Well, we found this place, and it's going to be our special place. The food wasn't exactly cheap, so we won't go there often, but I'm guessing that we'll try to get there once a year now...maybe the show and this restaurant will become our tradition.

It's actually a tiny place and if you weren't looking for it, you wouldn't be able to find it. It's actually in a basement. The ceilings were low and it's really small...definitely a hidden gem. We ordered a lot of food. I took pictures. But don't judge me because we didn't really eat all of this food, we had some left over. But my, my -- it was GOOD!

This is the entrance. The door is on the left. See what I mean, if you weren't looking for it, you wouldn't even notice it!

Our appetizer...Brie cheese with garlic, almonds and onions...served with French Bread.

The house salad....amazing....

My meal -- chicken, shrimp and rice.

Zeb's meal -- pork and cheesy grits (yuck!)

Our dessert -- chocolate bread pudding (we did NOT have any of this left-over!!!)

We had a great night, but we were definitely ready to head home to our little guy. I know we talked about him most of the night. We are pretty sure that by next year, he'll be old enough to go with us. There were some young boys sitting in front of us at the show and they were loving it! This was definitely the perfect way to get into the holiday season!