Happy Anniversary!

Our goal was to go out for a nice dinner to celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary before the end of January, and we succeeded. With our anniversary falling on New Year's Eve, we usually wait until sometime in January to go out to dinner and celebrate since so many other shenanigans go on Dec. 31. We planned to go the week after, but we got busy, and then after that we got sick, and so on and so on.  So tonight we finally were able to go out for a delicious meal at Destihl with our bonus points credit, with the added bonus of being accompanied dear friends.

We started with tequila shots to celebrate Bob's decision not to to return to the golf course in March (faint) and instead focus on our dog training business.  

About the tequila shots.  We don't "shoot" the tequila back in one gulp. We sip and enjoy it.  Caroline and I had chilled patron silver in a little shot glass.  Bob and Elizabeth had some other kind of fancy tequila in snifters.  About the golf course.  Bob's dog business is starting the pick up a bit, and the thought of going back to the golf course in early March, added to his NCC job, added to trying to find time to spend on the dog biz, not to mention trying to sleep once in awhile, was overwhelming.  So we decided to try and make a go of it without the golf course job knowing that if we need to, he can always go back later.

We also had fried cheese and deep fried bacon and some sort of fried potato thing for appetizers.  Here's the deep fried bacon, AKA, heart-attack on a plate.  The snifter behind the bacon held some of the fancy tequila.

As much as I love bacon, and anything deep-fat-fried, 
I wasn't sure deep-fat-fried bacon was a good idea.

I was wrong.

After the tequila and bacon was gone, we enjoyed some wine, and some occasional sips of water just to be healthy, yo.  

A nice Pinot Noir.

Then we enjoyed some delicious entrées, but I forgot to take pictures of the food until we were almost done.  

This WAS meatloaf.

This WAS a pork chop, or two.

This WAS a full rack of ribs.

We had a wonderful time with wonderful friends.  And we skipped the dessert because we are old and were tired, had already gone way over our bonus points credit, and wanted to get home to watch Ricky Gervais on HBO (which we did not finish because Bob fell asleep).

Thanks, C and E, for a wonderful evening of great food, even better company, and lots of laughs and fun!  You MUST come to SoCal next year for our 25th Anniversary party in Laguna Beach.  Absolutely!  Mark your calendars.