We've started a new 'tradition' (Jus is as much obsessed with creating family traditions as I am with celebrating holidays) where we go out to a really nice steak house - just the two of us - for his birthday. He's not a real big party guy (even though I am) and though he loves hanging out with lots of people, he would rather spend his birthday with just his family (whereas, I love my family, but would rather spend my birthday with lots of people) So about a month ago, he said that all he really wanted for his birthday was to have a date night in the city with me! {insert 'awww's' here} soooo... we decided the two of us would head out to the big city and celebrate on saturday (instead of trying to rush out of work on friday and dealing with the added stress) making it Jus' birthday-night-out for the year 2012!
Of course Jus had to go into work for the morning, so I enjoyed the day with the kids until it was time to go. Since I had most of the day to pack up the boys' stuff and get them all ready, I was able to get them all loaded up, and over to pick up Justin from work just around their naptime. We dropped the boys off with the inlaws, who live right outside of NYC, and then we drove back into the city for our night out on the town.
It was nice. No kids menus, no high chairs or baby bags. It was a nice full night of adult conversation with no 'time-outs'. We had a nice walk around times square and got to walk into the stores on fifth ave for a bit. I almost talked Jus into buying a sports coat (I'll probably just get it for him later this month) and worked up a good appetite for our ribeye steaks at Smith and Wollensky's. So, we were able to accomplish most of what we wanted to in the city. Walking around midtown, check. Steakhouse dinner, check. Rooftop view of the city over drinks, check. Little late night music with a really pretty good cover band in Greenich Village, check. It was also getting pretty silly, because we kept pushing ourselves to stay up a little longer and check out another spot. I mean, we had the night off, we had to do it right! But after I caught myself nodding off in the car on our way out of the village, we decided we probably should call it a night.
It was when we proceeded to 'sneak' back into his parent's place so as to not wake anyone up that I felt young again =)
All in all it was a very fun night!
