Monday, July 25, 2011

Friday-Date Night!!!

Friday was a busy day for me.  I woke up pretty early as Charlie was out the door for work by 5:00 a.m. and I just couldn't really fall back to sleep after he left (so I layed in bed and and tried to fall back asleep off an on until about 7 and then I finally decided to get up).  I got ready for the day, ran some errands around town, and then ran to Orange City to hang some posters up in the local churches with my sister Kasondra.  This coming Sunday we are having a benefit concert in Orange City, IA to raise funds for a mission trip that our entire family is going on along with Rachelle Hope & her husband and professional BMX Rider, Jon Greer this coming January 2012.  Which by the way-YOU ARE ALL INVITED TO!!!
The rest of the afternoon I spent several hours on my computer doing some legal research for my criminal law assignment.  School has been going pretty good for the most part so far, besides learning the ropes around how LEXIS all works (LEXIS is an online legal research program).  But I am happy to say that I officially completed my first assignment today and am anxious to see how I did.

Then Friday night, I was pretty excited as Charlie & I had planned a DATE NIGHT.  Let me tell you, this was very needed and it had been quite awhile since we have been able to get away to just spend some quality time together- "just the two of us".  We headed up to Sioux City and on our way up we drove through some car dealerships and test drove a few vehicles (which we really kind of enjoy doing).  Then when we got to Sioux City, we went to eat right away as we were both pretty hungry.  One of the salesmen from the dealership we stopped at in Le Mars had suggested we try the "Japanese Steakhouse" in Sioux City (which is where the old Coyote Canyon used to be) as he said the food was really good and it's a pretty neat experience too as you are also entertained while you are waiting for your food.  He said that they chef's come out and cook on this big metal grill right at your table.  This sounded a lot like what we had at our resort on our honeymoon and we really enjoyed it.  We are always up for trying new restaurants and we both really like Chinese/Japanese food and steakhouses so we thought why not give it a try.  Boy was the food good and we had such a fun time together-it was just something differentt than your normal restaurant.  Anyways I just thought I'd share a couple pictures that I took that night.  (Yes I love pictures!  Funny story actually...one of the ladies we sat by at supper asked when we were taking the pictures below..."So, is it like your Anniversary or something?"  You would have gotten a good chuckle at Charlie's response I'm sure-I did anyways.  He said,  "No, she just really likes pictures.  Well he knows me well I guess right.)