Dinner For Two

Oh hello hello,

This is it! This is the Dinner Date blog I promised, and believe me, it exceeded every expectation! 

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We'll start from the beginning! 

It's Thursday midday and I'm sitting on a bus bouncing along toward the city. Tonight is my big date night and I'm on a mission. Find shoes to match my dress! 

I exit the bus throwing the driver a thank you, and step into Queen St Mall. Breathe in. Yup, the city has a certain smell and many good memories associated with it. Oh the teenager days.  

Focus! Mission : Shoes. I scour high and low over the mall for the perfect pair. I walked into hundreds of nice looking shoe shops just to discover the shoes were plain and the prices stuck up and inflated. I used some serious restraint when browsing in Myer's shoe department. There are some stunning heels in there with equally stunning price tags I almost bought. 

Finally, I came across one of my favourite sort of shops. Cheap n' nasty shoes. As long as they still look great, I don't mind paying less. Just so happens this shop had an intense sale on heels. $10 heels? I could barely restrain myself from throwing ten pairs on the register and screaming, "LET ME BUY THESE". I texted Matthew, "Shoes. Shh" and threw the phone away while I entered girl heaven. 

It was a good thing I did restrain myself though, because once I tried these shoes on, I liked none of them. I tried on almost every shoe in the shop and not many tickled my fancy. Apart from one. This shoe wasn't on sale but there was something unique, weird and really beautiful about it. So when a little birdy whispered in my ear, "Go on spoil yourself, you never do!", I bought them! 

With that mission complete, I met Matty for a chilled lunch. I was really excited because in six hours or so, I'd be having the coolest dinner date of my life! I got worried about time and ditched my man to dash home and doll up. (That sentence had lots of 'd's.). 

By the time I got home this was the plan. Four hours to, shower, shave, moisturize, pluck, pout, do makeup, straighten hair and look delicious. I used every minute of those four hours and ta - da. Scrubbed up pretty good considering it was a home job. 

Note: Pay attention to the new favourite shoes. I'll show you a better picture later once my camera is charged! 

Note: Pay attention to cuteness. Ng'aww! 

Okay back to me telling you about the awesome night in lots of detail so you get jealous. Hehe.

When Matty arrived, I was walking up my driveway and he literally stopped his car and reversed a little to get another look. Priceless! It went like this:

"Hey you!"

"Hello yoouu, how you doing?" (Insert more seedyness there) 

So we did the photo thing, which would be our first and only photo of us together, and then he tortured me by threatening to not give me my present until after dinner. He showed my brother my present but wouldn't let me see! This is a big deal because he'd been teasing me endlessly with this mysterious present I was getting. 

It's time to go! We jumped in his purple-mo-bile and broom broomed to the Sofitel for our booking at the Thyme Restaurant. Everything was so pretty, I stood in the ladies bathroom for a while and just admired the sparkly lights. I'm easily pleased and enjoy eating fast food together, so dining out blew my mind away a little. 

We were seated (a waitress pulled my seat out for me. Cool!), and ordered food. What to pick!? Argh choices. 

I chose Scallops and Gambas seared with baby spinach, orzo pasta , cream and Permod. Now erase all those words that don't make any sense and instead one word will sum these bad boys up.

Orgasmic.

No really, I couldn't contain little moans of delight when eating this. I am a sucker for scallops and literally put my finger over Matt's mouth and said, "Shh, eating time". I told him to shut up while I went to heaven and back. 

He devoured some Kilpatrick oysters and I tried one. They were damn good. Apparently oysters get you in the mood so, you know. I was a little excited for later that night considering that! HAHA

He offered me wine or whatever I wanted off the beverage list but because I had not a single clue what half of them were, or tasted like, I just told him to get two of what he was getting. Jack Daniels it was!

He thought it was going to be funny because I wouldn't like it, but damn! I love Jack Daniels! It was like drinking chocolate hazelnut delicious. Good stuff. 

The lady didn't give me any time to rest after the amazing entree and slammed me with two of the most incredible mains of my life.

A barramundi fillet with chilli calamari, stir fried bok choy and jasmine rice. The skin of the fish was just crispy and the flesh, mouthwatering. Really good! 

We also shared a monster Beef fillet and lobster thermid with pomme mousseline, green beans and red wine jus. Not sure what that really means but I think it translates into heaven in my mouth? Lobster is awesome! Matt chopped and fed me the majority of those two mains so we ended up skipping desert and waddling out clutching my belly instead. 

So fat. So worth it. I can die happy now. 

I missed one very big amazing part of the story but I'll re-tell that once I have some pictures to show you at the same time. In a few days okay! It'll be worth the wait. 

So that was my intense dinner date. Apparently it's going to become a regular thing because he really liked that black dress on me. I'm not complaining, as long as he shuts up while I eat.

  Bring on round two!

Melanie xx