I wanted to share our special evening with you guys.
I had no idea what to expect, other than to bring a really nice dress and look pretty!
Well with dress in hand, shoes, and a cute matching purse I was most ready for whatever adventure lay ahead for us on this special night!
It was exciting not really knowing what we were doing and what D had planned.
We came back from our excursion to the light house and shopping to hang out and play backgammon. We wanted to relax and hang out before our special night. Only we didn't really pay attention to the time, so when I finally asked D what time it was, we were in full flurry to get ready! LOL. So typical us. I leaped up and started to get ready and he went into the bedroom to get his suit out.
He comes into the bathroom and asks me where is his white button down shirt. I tell him I don't know and he immediately goes into a panic. Because he forgot it. We had 30 minutes by this point to get to the special event. 30 minutes.
The interesting thing to note here, and I feel I must share because normally the tables would be turned is that D freaked out! He simply panicked and I didn't! LOL. So he looks all over for it and can't find it, and finally goes into town to see if they didn't have something for him to wear.
While he was gone, I calmly put on my makeup, did my hair and figured if our evening was spoiled that we could at least get dressed up semi and go into town into one of the smaller quaint places to eat if need be. Basically a plan B.
He texts me, which I don't get because I am busy getting ready and comes rushing back in with a shirt.
Now mind you, I have to share with you that he went to 2 stores in town and both of them told him to go to a bigger town to get his shirt! He was frantic!! He didn't have the time to do that...
So here he is with this shirt.
Which looks nice on him. The funniest thing is the poor guy's story. The first store didn't have a shirt, so she directed him to another one that might have one. They had 3. One was gray striped, one was black/red diamonds, and this floral printed white one. Luckily it was an XL, which was a tad big, but worked. The shirt was 90 bucks. Yep. 90 bucks. But luckily marked down to 60 then 40 something. He even got a little bit more of a discount because he is military!
So in he rushes and by this time I am ready. He tells me his entire story while he's getting dressed and we leave.
As you know, we end up at the Stephanie Inn. A beautiful restaurant. A 5 course dinner. Pretty romantic since we've never done something like this at all! Of course we were the most dressed up, so people were staring, but it was okay!!! Our dinner was a vegetarian delight as I wrote in another post.
Now mind you, I grew up with a grandmother that felt like all the grandchildren needed to know the finer things in life. So in the event that I was sitting at a table like I was on this night, I'd know what to do. The table was set to a tee. And for the life of me, even though I knew I panicked. I couldn't remember if we used the silverware from the outside in, or inside out. So I will admit to you, I called me aunt for a refresher. I knew it as soon as she said it and D had even guessed it right! LOL. So with that we ate our lovely meal with each course getting better and better.
Well I didn't know he had something else planned after dinner and he seemed in a hurry towards the end. He finally asks one of the hostess' to speed it up a little in the nicest way possible and she does, what a lovely girl! We rush out of there and head to the local theater in town. Well we were late.
So we go to the front window and she said they already took the tickets to the back, so we had to go into the side door. Strange, but we walked quickly.
Came around and ended up meeting a nice woman who gave us the tickets and led us in.
Well because I wasn't sure what we were getting ourselves into, I just walked straight in.
Only to realize we were the very last people there and the play was about to start!!!
The play was A Talent For Murder.
Put on by a small production company.
As we were walking in I realized hey, everyone is looking at us because not only are we late, but Dayv leans in as we're walking and says, I think they think we're part of the play. Sure enough, that is really what I think everyone was thinking too!!! Here we are all dressed up to the nine's the play is about to start and no one really knows who we are.
We sit and get situated and the play starts!
How funny this is to us and we chuckle!
It was a great play. Funny and witty.
We came back and tried to take photos {we didn't have enough time beforehand as you know!}
and these are the one's we got {which aren't very good, but hey what can you do!}
It was a magical, fun, romantic night and the most perfect part was Dayv planning the entire surprise!!!
The second place we ate at was for breakfast. We decided on Pig'N Pancake. We weren't sure what to expect, but realized soon after we sat down that we were in for a treat. We had pancakes, fruit, tea and coffee. After there we left and went into another town about an hour away. We went to a lighthouse and saw that and then back into another town to antique shop and find some lunch. he coolest part about all of this is that these towns didn't have your typical places to eat that we are accustomed too. They had local eaters, which was really nice! s place was called The Blue Moon. Another hole in the wall place with great food! We split a veggie sandwich, had some chips and a soda. Then for dessert we had the best carrot cake I think either of us had eaten! Yummy!!!
A complete and utter surprise and completely worth it. We were lucky enough to get a vegetarian meal. The first course was a wonderful salad with wheat bread. We also picked out an organic wine that tasted delectable. The second course was a lovely tomato basil brusque soup. This soup really couldn't be call soup actually. It was that good! Oh my goodness! So very good! For our entree' and third course we had stuffed tomato with quinoa and seasonings. I can't describe that beauty of this dish... It was amazing. I mean amazing! The last and final dish was dessert. We had creme' brulee with chocolate covered strawberries on the side. Which of course was incredible! All of it actually was incredible. 
We ate here on the third day for breakfast prior to leaving Oregon. This place had such charm! It was decorated well, the service was good, it wasn't crowded at all, and the food was good too. There was a lot of it! I really liked this town again because of its small charm but also because of how quaint it was.
