On Tuesday night, I went to dinner at The Melting Pot for the first time. I was in the company of some new friends - they are girls that work with Tom who I am becoming very close with! They are a lot of fun and we had the most delicious-dip-it-yourself dinner!
We started with the cheese course - yikes for all the Noonans out there! We settled on the spinach and artichoke dip and it was really delish! Ironically it was not too cheesey tasting (even though I watched the waiter drop more cheese in that bowl than I think I've eaten in my entire 23 years). They give you tortilla chips, bread cubes, vegetables and apples (which were surprisingly good with the dip) to dunk into this first course. We polished that off pretty quickly!
Then it was onto the salads - we all tried something different I think and I got a really good salad with walnuts and a raspberry vinagrette dressing! Yum!
Next was the meat portion. To my surprise, we each got our own plate of meat to dip in - I thought it was going to be a few big pieces of each type and we would cut them and share them. No no. We had our own portions. So - I had chicken and shrimp and some potatoes and vegetables. They give you a few dips to go with the meat and then one to stuff the mushrooms with - that was really good!
But the best part by far was the dessert. We chose the chocolate oreo option and dipped rice krispie treats, cake, strawberries, bananas, brownies and marshmallows into the wonderfully gooey chocolate! (I know, just reading that makes me feel like I need to unbutton the top bottom of my jeans - luckily I wore a skirt that gave a bit of much-needed wiggle room after all that food!)
It was a great night and I really enjoyed hanging out with some new friends!
Wednesday was the first time my date night with Tom was moved a day later. The girls from his work "stole me" for our normal date night (don't worry Tom went out with a friend from work to sushi on Tuesday so he was taken care of too!) so we moved our date night to Wednesday - just this once! ;)
We enjoyed the leftovers from Delco's finest kitchen (aka Mama Noons) with a nice bottle of Merlot and some Modern Family (hysterical!). A perfect date night - maybe even more so because absence makes the heart grow fonder, remember?
Thursday night was best of all - I went to see Mary Poppins at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street!
I have never been to a Broadway show before and I had such a great time! We went with a ton of people from Tom's work as well as our friends Liz and Anthony from Loyola. The singing and dancing was fantastic and the two little kids who played Jane and Michael in the show were so fun to watch. Bert beyond entertaining and Mary Poppins was as lovable as the movie!
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| Pictures thanks to http://www.broadway.com/ |
I'd say I had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious "work week!"
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