Valentine's date

I just got back from a little getaway with Paul. We decided to celebrate Valentine's this weekend (since we couldn't actually go out on Valentine's day since it was Sunday and the night before was our adult stake conference meeting). We were gone for 24 hours and spent only $5.07.
We headed up to Park City to have dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. We'd been given a gift card (from one of Paul's sub-contractors) 2 Christmases ago and were finally going to use it. We'd been to Ruth's one other time so we knew what to expect going in - VERY pricey place. Paul is not really comfortable in places like that but he survived.
Ever since we went the first time I knew I wanted to order the Sweet Potato Casserole. YUM!! It really is like a dessert to me and that's what I had for dessert. Its probably a sin but neither one of us ordered steak - Paul had their stuffed chicken and I had a very good vegetarian dish of sauteed mushrooms and grilled portobellos mushrooms served with mashed potatoes, broccoli, tomatoes and asparagus that I lovingly gave to Paul. It sounds like a strange a dish but it was very good. We also had ravioli for an appetizer and their chop salad too. We had all that and it came to $77.00. Its unbelievable to us that people really go there and spend that much money on food. And the really crazy thing was to see how many people had their kids there with them. Since it was Park City I'm sure they were all families on a ski trip from the East Coast (their accents gave them away). It was a very entertaining place to people watch. We left their so stuffed that it was almost painful.
Next we headed to our hotel. This was also FREE. From all of Paul's hotel stays up in Idaho at Best Western up there he had earned a free hotel stay. It was based on points and when I called to reserve a room in Park City they told me I didn't have enough points but said that the Best Western in Coleville would be covered by the points on our voucher and some in his account. So we stayed in Coleville (not actually right in Coleville but right off the I-80 exit to go to Coleville). Before we headed up to our room we drove through Coleville - a true small town with only the one Main Street and no street lights. At 9:00 pm the town was all shut down and we couldn't any place open to get some ice cream.
Our room was nice, when we checked in they upgraded us to a suite! We enjoyed the king size bed and fell asleep watching the Olympics.
This morning we enjoyed the complimentary breakfast buffet and then headed downtown to go to the SL Temple. After the temple we stopped at Red Mango for a treat and then went to visit Paul's parents. When we got home the little kids were excited to see us and the house had obviously just been cleaned up. That was a nice treat to come home to.
What a great date weekend.