Dinner without the kids!!!

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Mike, Julie, and I took all the kids to church this morning while Ben drove back to Abilene to meet with 2 kids and their parents that are interested in Ekklesia Mountain High!  The other night, Daddy Steve and Namaw offered to watch ALL FIVE KIDS so that we could have dinner with Ben & Juile sans kids!  Tonight we took them up on their offer.  We dropped ALL THE KIDS off at their house around 5 pm tonight and then fed them dinner, played with them, and got them ready for bed while we had a night on the town!

We headed to Sundance Square in Fort Worth and the first stop was Mike's new office building.  The former CEO of his company likes the older buildings in downtown Ft. Worth and so rather than buying one huge building to house all the employees, the company buys several smaller, older buildings and restores them to their former glory!  This is the lobby of one of the restored office buildings.  I should've taken a picture of the elevators. They had the old dials above the elevators and lots of beautiful mahogany trim.

We went to dinner at an Italian restaurant called Taverna.  I ordered a delicious brick oven pizza (however, it wasn't as good as the ones Ben makes in his backyard brick oven!)  It was so fun to be able to talk without interruption...and I think it was a much needed break for Ben & Julie on this 3 week long trip!

We walked around Sundance Square for a little while afterwards, but it's not as lively on a Sunday evening as it is on a Friday or Saturday evening.  We didn't see a single street performer!  Julie and I tried to get a picture in front of one of the murals on the side of a building...but it was too dark.

 

On our way back to Daddy Steve & Namaw's we stopped at Coldstone for some much needed ice cream ;) 

Daddy Steve & Namaw - Thank you sooooooo much for watching the kids for us!  It was wonderful to have time alone with Ben & Julie before they had to leave!