A Date With My Honey

After almost 45 years of marriage, we still plan a date.  We like to set aside one day a month for US.  We've been doing that for a while, and our last date, on October 31, was so much fun.  I'm already looking forward to our next date.  The reason we enjoy these days together is that normally, we are not together (during the day) for much of the week.  Ron has his friends and activities, and I have mine.  Most evenings are spent together, except for my occasional poker game and his occasional poker game, or possibly, a bridge game.  So a day together is special.  Here's how we spent Halloween, 2014.

We left the house around 9:00am and headed for our favorite breakfast spot, 101 Café in Encinitas.  Ron was yearning for an apple pancake, so we split one!  Just enough to keep us going for the morning.  Then we headed to Balboa Park.  We were going to the Museum of Art, to view their current exhibit, Gaugin to Warhol.  There was an 11am docent tour which we attended, and got some interesting background on the artists represented in the exhibit, and the Allbright Knox Museum, from which all the works come.  Picasso, Pissarro, Matisse, Gaugin Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Pollack, Warhol and many, many more artists were represented in this fine exhibit.  After a quick visit to the museum shop (I couldn't resist buying something), we were off to lunch.

Our original plan was to go to HashHouse A GoGo, but due to terrible construction on that street, we decided to go to Mission Hills, to the new hotspot, The Patio on Goldfinch.  What a good decision that was.  First, almost everyone in the restaurant was dressed in costume or looked pretty exotic out of costume.  We sat on the front patio, a very animal friendly place to be.   There was a large dog with a water bowl supplied by the restaurant sitting on the floor, a small dog sitting on a chair, and a miniature potbellied pig sitting on the floor with his owner and friends, all in costume.  The pig was not in costume but did have her nails painted blue.  The restaurant supplies home made cookies for the dogs too, so if you plan to go there with your pet, call ahead to make sure they can accommodate you. We had a fabulous lunch, which I will blog about later, and got home around 2pm.  Right now we're home, waiting for trick or treaters.  We love seeing the little kids, so excited and all dressed up.  The perfect ending to a perfect date with my honey.  Next month, we plan to go to the Museum of Torture (Ron's choice).  That ought to be uplifting!