After declaring it so earlier this week, and looking forward to it for the past two long workdays, tonight finally arrived and brought our first official date as a husband and wife. At least, it felt official with a cool name like date night.

Just as we were getting ready to go out, J in his cute new lime flops, and me all dressed up in a new top from Destin, flowers in my hair, a long white skirt, and strappy silver sandals, it started to rain. Really rain. It’s hard to complain, since we need it so badly, but it was just our luck to get wet, especially since we spent last night in and ordered pizza…while it was perfectly dry outside, of course. But, we didn’t let that cramp our style, and sloshed out anyway. We started the evening off with a few pints of Guinness at the Shamrock (good beer), before making our way to the theater to see Superman Returns (good movie). About 45 minutes into the flick, the lights came on and the screen turned gray…the first thing that came to my mind was bad weather, as in tornado weather. So, we looked around at all the other people looking around, and waited for a few minutes before Jerry went out to see what was going on outside (he’s such a brave man). Nothing. And no staff members to reassure us. Nice. Luckily, the movie restarted after a ten minute delay, and we continued watching Superman make up powers as he went along, doing all kinds of cool stuff. We both really liked it, but I think Kate Bosworth (Lois) is much prettier than she looks in the movie.

After the show, we braved the still steady rain and went to dinner. I suggested Taki, a brand new Japanese restuarant, and we were pleasantly surprised by the interior and the sushi. We even sat close together on the same side of the table…aww. On the way home, the evening ended with an all-out-all-80s iPod battle…which Jerry won, if you can believe that. Great night with my sweet hubby!