When we got to the hotel we both got all dressed up, unfortuantely my camera would not fit in my little purse so we couldn't get a full-sized picture of the two of us. I got a few pictures before we left. I very much like this picture of myself. I felt very fancy and pretty.
When we got to Morton's we were ushered to a big huge booth all to ourselves, despite the place being packed (yay anniversary reservations!) and were greated by this on our menus:
I had been planning on getting a lobster tail, but thought to myself...why not try a whole lobster? I've never done that before. Honestly - big mistake! I clearly had no concept of how big a full sized lobster is (they did tell me it was a 3.5 pounder, I should have figured it out, but something just didn't compute!). When they brought out my meal my jaw nearly dropped to the floor in shock. The plate was HUGE. So here I am, this very large pregnant woman, with a humongous plate of food in front of me...I think I might have looked like a glutton. But then I decided to get over it and dig in. I only got through the tail portion before I was full. Yup, should have stuck to the tail.
We attempted a picture of the ginormous lobster with Nathan's cell phone. It didn't turn out great, but you can get an idea of how large it was:
Morton's apparently takes a complimentary picture for special events and so they took a very wonderful picture of Nathan and I, put it in a black cardboard frame, and it was signed by all the wait staff. I then proceeded to lose this great picture in the taxi. Yeah, I was having an awesome brain night.
After our meal (which was seriously delicious, we topped off our entrees with a wonderful warm brownie filled with hot fudge and served with ice cream) we were whisked off by taxi to the opera.
I had always assumed, and have been told by mommagriffith who has season tickets to the opera, that most everyone dresses up to attend the opera. Nice dresses, suits etc. I'm not sure if it was just the show we went to see or what, but Nathan and I were quite surprised when half the audience was in khakis and jeans. We were truly the best dressed there. Only one other woman was wearing a nice dress. I admit, I didn't feel out of place at all. Instead, I felt that everyone else was out of place. ;-) I just can't picture attending an opera in jeans.
The opera itself was fine, but not anything to shout about. The first two introductory acts (which I can't recall the names of) were sung in Italian I believe. I found them to be a bit confusing, despite the subtitles, though when I read the plot later they did make a bit more sense. They were not very engaging however, nothing about them really drew me in. The main show was even less appealing and while I don't have much to compare it to, I don't think I like operas sung in English. The title of the show was Trouble in Tahiti and it was about a 1950s couple going through rough times in their marriage, both of whom look for love and satisifaction in other places, while their son sits and home in front of the television and fantisizes of an idealistic 1950s dream family - happy homemaker, a loving husband and doting father who has a successful career, all of this packaged in a lovely white house in the suburbs of America. It is an iteresting subject matter, but I felt the opera itself fell flat.
That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy myself, though! We had a lot of fun dressing up and feeling fancy for a night. We caught a taxi back to the hotel (this is where I lost our picture from Morton's) and we both completely passed out upon arrival.
Gabe did great at Grandma and Grandpas. He didn't sleep well, but I'm not surpised. He just has too much fun playing when he goes to my inlaws place. He hardly noticed when we came to pick him up the next morning, I don't think he even realized we were gone. This gives me a lot of relief honestly, because I was concerned how he would do staying there overnight when Elena is born. Now I know he'll be just fine.
So that was our fun evening out! I can't believe I've been married 3 years all ready. It feels like the time has just flown by. It's been an amazing 3 years, that's for sure.
