Date Night: Attack of the Flaming Cheese

It was a fun and interesting night tonight. Jeff and I found ourselves, for the first time in weeks, with free time, energy, and extra money all at the same time. Usually by Friday we're both so exhausted that we just throw on our pjs, order in, and stare blankly at the TV til we fall asleep on the couch. Tonight, however, inspired by my newly purchased yellow strappy sandals, I decided we should hit the town.

Jeff really wanted to see the movie "Date Night", so we got all dolled up and headed to the 7:40 showing at the Maya (which beats the pants of Edwards Cinema any day!). Since it only came out today, I'll assume that most people haven't seen it yet. I don't want to spoil anything for you, but this is one of the funniest and best movies I've ever seen. Tina Fey and Steve Carell played the most believable, adorable, hysterical married couple I have ever seen on film. The guy behind me in the theater was laughing to hard he kept spitting popcorn at the back of my head.



When the movie was over, we decided that, even though our stomachs ached from laughing, we had better eat dinner, so we headed to Goose Loonies. Our waitress set herself on fire. I'm not kidding. Jeff ordered Saganaki, or as he calls it, "The Flaming Cheese". So our server brought out the cheese, and the shot of 200 proof alcohol, and the matches. She had curly hair full of highly flammable stying products. You do the math. To make matters worse, I couldn't stop laughing. Even before Jeff threw his water on the poor girl, I was nearly on the floor. I told Jeff he shouldn't have ordered me that Long Island Iced Tea.

After a delicious dinner, we left a 50% tip for our poor charred server, and headed home. We were both so exhausted from laughing all night that we changed into our pjs, and sat on the couch staring at the the TV until we both passed out.

Date Night Gone Awry

My dentist appointment for today got rescheduled. Whew! Glad I dodged THAT bullet! To celebrate, Jeff and I decided to go see "Alice in Wonderland". Let me preface this story by saying 1. That we are HUGE Johnny Depp fans, and 2. That Tim Burton friggin rocks.

That being said, I was mildly disturbed by Johnny's performance in this particular film. For starters, I could hardly understand anything he said the whole movie. Also I felt that he really didn't have much to work with character-wise. Come on Mr. Burton, you have one of the most brilliant character actors in the world at your disposal, and his crowning moment in your movie is a CGI-enhanced version of the hokey-pokey. Disappointing.

It wasn't all bad though. Here is the bullet list of Wonderland awesomeness:

• Costume Design
• Set Design
• The Queen of Heart's Big Fat Head
• The Cheshire Cat
• The trademark Tim Burton Forest
• Danny Elfman's Music
  
  Jeff pointed out that if Johnny Depp and I ever got together and had kids (fingers crossed), they would probably look something like this:

So after the movie, Jeff and I headed off to our favorite budget-friendly non-fast-food restaurant, Coconut Joe's. The second we walked in the door, we could tell by the faces of the other customers that something was horribly wrong, and then we heard it - the unmistakable sound of poorly amplified acoustic guitars mixed with the slightly off-pitch wailings of two 16 year-old boys. Our sunny, island-themed dinner destination was completely hidden in a dense fog of teenage angst. How did this happen?

Well, we were really hungry, so we decided to stick it out. Our server informed us that the live "music" was a new thing the restaurant was trying out and asked us how we liked it. Our response: "We never thought we could miss Don Ho so much!"