Dinner date

So, we actually didn't do a lot last weekend because sashagee was sick for most of it. She went out with friends on Friday, but not with all of her friends--rubyleon1090 broke her ankle a few days before and was unable to go out, so she stayed home on what was going to be the Galentine's Lana night. I was invited to go with maptekar and her boyfriend and some of their friends, but after some thought I declined because I was worried I was getting sicker and didn't want to get anyone else sick. As it turned out, I wasn't the one getting sick, sashagee, making it now about two months of her being on and off sick.

We did manage to get out for a date, though! A restaurant one at Travelle, the restaurant attached to the hotel that's in the building I work in. The weather was extremely cold, -8° but with a howling windchill 10 degrees colder, but we braved it to the L, skipped the L because the train arrival times were all --, took the bus, and made it to the restaurant. And when we got there, things were a little weird. Every other time I'd went for dinner, the dining room was open, but not this time, even on a Saturday night. The bar area was open, and they were serving food, but it was open seating. We looked around for a bit, saw that all the tables near the windows over the river were taken, and asked a waiter if the table off over in the corner halfway between the bar and the dining room was taken. It wasn't, and even if the lighting wasn't quite as moody and the view wasn't the river, the noise level was much better.

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