FRIDAY DATE NIGHT WITH THE ANIMALS. .

Due to the fact that I usually don't work Fridays, we generally make that our date-night. . .or date-day. . . or date-all-day-night time . . .thing. Occasionally, we'll have our date on a different night of the week and sometimes we'll even have (gasp, oh-my-heck!) TWO date-night thingies in the SAME week.

This week was just such a week. I had appointments with doctors on Wednesday so I took the day off work. We decided to have an early dinner (to beat the crowd) at the 'Ginza Hibachi and Sushi' restaurant where we like to take the missionaries. This time, however, it was just the two of us. We love that place. It's like a Benihana but not as upscale. There are four very large preparation/cooking steels and seating for approximately ten people around each. The chefs are all magicians with their cooking utensils. They are masters of food prep and they keep up a very lively and funny conversation as they go about their slicing, dicing, cutting, cooking and serving. And the food is incredible... swordfish, scallops, shrimp, chicken, filet mignon, lobster, vegetables, salmon, mahi-mahi, calamari, rice, sushi, shark-fin soup, onion soup, you name it. That was our first date of the week. Then, yesterday, we did a two-fer-one day/night date thing-a-ma-jig. For the first part, we had a seafood lunch and then later in the evening went to the 'Movie thee-EIGHT-er'. Yup, that's a word in Kentucky - THEE-8-ER. Yesterday was the opening of Quantum of Solace with Daniel Craig, but after brieflyconsidering all of the options, I decided that the chance to watch Lynne as she watched 'Madagascar 2' was too great an entertainment bargain to pass up. It's like buying Certs with retsyn. . .only instead of breath mints you get, "two, two, two shows in one!" For the price of one ticket, I was treated to two shows. Trust me, if you ever have an opportunity to go to ANY animated movie with Lynne, don't pass it up. She is more like a little kid than the little kids. Cracks me up. Believe me, not all of the funny animals or funny characters are on the screen. When you go to a movie with Lynne, you have a ring-side seat to two performances.