The day, itself was pretty normal and nothing out of the ordinary happened. D went off to work, I slept in, then went over to my neighbor's to visit for a bit, came home and ate lunch and then settled into my project of making D a super awesome Anniversary card. (He is not a fan of commercial cards, he'd rather make one or buy a blank one and write his own sentiments. After the sweet card I received on Valentine's Day, I decided to put a little more creativity into his Anniversary card.)
It took me 2.5 hours and I was almost finished when he got home. This made me a little sad since I had to ruin the total surprise so he wouldn't try to enter the room I was working in. But it was still worth it when I gave him the card and he was impressed with how much effort I put in to it. :-)
Now I thought we had decided on Sushi for dinner. I was wrong. He wanted Mexican food. Neither of us wanted to spend a lot of money. Fine. So we try to call up our favorite Mexican place (since we tried to go there on V-day and they were randomly closed) found the number had been disconnected. I search online and discover they have been shut down: because of health code violations. We're both saddned and a little grossed out.
I hand the task of finding a restaurant over to D and go get ready. He finds this restaurant called Savory down in Encinitas. Neither sushi or Mexican, so totally fair. Great, we head out. We couldn't find it at first but decide that we'll try a place called Firefly that we passed if we can't find Savory, since it looked like a nice, well populated establishment. Turns out Savory is in the same shopping center. So we go to Savory since that was the "original" plan.
Savory: casual dining and fare (that's what their sign says.)
Savory: expensive, small portions and .... AWFUL!!
D had some mac-n-cheese dish that had no taste. They somehow managed to screw up one of the easiest dishes ever. You couldn't even taste the pasta!! I had duck leg with some sausage and lentils...D said, "Fast food, Chineese duck tastes better than this duck!"
We had a good laugh, because honestly, what else could you do? Say you don't like your meal and have to deal with the manager and possibly chef coming out to see what they can do to make your meal better? There wasn't anything else on the menu that we could translate (I believe it was all in French) and/or that we wanted. So instead I lied and said everything was "good" when the waitress asked.
We leave and immediately start laughing at the bust that our Anniversary dinner was. D mentions what we can pick up for dessert. I ask if we can stop by In-And-Out so I can get a burger and fries. Having tasted the duck, he agrees that I'm probably pretty hungry. He got some fried ice cream flavored ice cream from the store for himself. We were both pretty tired from the day, so much so that this is what our 3 Year Anniversary picture will forever be:
:-)
Next time, we'll try Firefly. Their sign said "Grill and wine bar" - that can't ever be bad, right?
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