Double Date Night

I've been absent from the blog world for way too long!  The husband has three weeks off from med school, so we booked it out of town and have just been playing for the last 10 days or so.  It's been fabulous!  And we still get another week to play.  I'm not complaining.

Anyway, did you know that dates are super important to a marriage?  I really believe that.  But with two little kids, med school, family in a different state, and still being fairly new to our city, we don't get to go out very much.  Our dates usually consist of take out and catching up on a TV show that we both like once the kids are in bed.  I love those dates, but it is super nice to be able to get out of the house without kids every once in awhile, too!  Last night we had one of those rare opportunities. (Staying with family means free babysitting.  SCORE!) And bonus last night: We got to make it a double date with some friends who are actually our med school friends and happen to be from our same home town.

When you ask your 16-year-old brother to take a picture of you and your husband, this is what ends up
on your phone instead.  Plus about 20 more of the same kinds of pictures.  

So then you try to take a selfie, but your husband makes this face
because he feels "the opposite of manly" when we take selfies.

And then your brother takes a real picture and it just isn't that flattering.

We went and checked out the Container Park in downtown Vegas because none of us had ever been.  We listened to a jazz band for a little bit, ate some delicious BBQ, checked out the shops, walked down Fremont street, and finished the night with hot chocolate.

We listened to the band while we were waiting for our friends to get there.  I kept telling Tyler that I felt so out of place.  The whole scene just felt way more urban/hipster than I am.  I didn't hate it though!  And honestly, the band was good.

It's blurry.  I know. 

This is a really great picture of the band.

Once our friends got there, we got some BBQ.  It was delicious and pretty cheap, so I was happy!  We walked around the shops, but the only one that we really had any interest in was the one full of Disney paintings.  If they weren't like $1000, we would've come home with one.  But you know, extra spending money and med school don't really go together.

Maygen is a great photographer.

It was still pretty early and our kids were all sleeping, so we tried to check out this new Christmas place that had pretty lights, sledding, and other fun things.  Once we walked past the sketchiest bus stop I've ever seen and safely made it to the Christmas place, they told us it was only open to VIPs until Friday.  Rude!  So we turned around and headed back down Fremont street.

We'd heard that Fremont Street was supposedly more "family friendly" now, but holy crap.  It was not.  As soon as we made it to the Fremont Street Experience part, I felt so uncomfortable.  It was like 9 o'clock on a Tuesday night, but there were some super sketchy things going on.  Not to mention all the drunk people that could hardly walk.  I thought I felt out of place at the Container Park, but that was absolutely nothing compared to how I felt on Fremont Street.  We were there for about 5 minutes before deciding that there really was nothing for us down that way, so we headed back to the Container Park for some hot chocolate.  We hung out under a heater and drank hot chocolate and talked for a little while until it was time to go home.  It was nice to get some adult conversation and be out of the house for a bit.

One of my favorite things about cold weather is hot chocolate.

"Real life" started again before we could even walk in the door because baby Nora was already awake for the first time that night.  She's almost 16 months old and still not sleeping through the night.  It's fine.

Thanks for the fun night, Matt and Maygen!