Date Night

I have a confession...I have a small obsession with Kevin Bacon. I haven't seen all of his movies, and I honestly only know a few of his band's songs, but there's just something about him! Jas and I regularly play a modified version of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"(we pick one old and one new actor) on road trips, and for the past few years I've said I wanted to go see his band play. Well, one of my Christmas presents ended up being two tix to see the Bacon Brothers! And as Jas put it "I got you seats right next to the stage, so you can stare at his butt." Anyway, since the show was in Annapolis we had our first official overnight trip away from Chase this past weekend. My parents came down to babysit, and we planned to have a nice dinner before the show. Jas got us 6:30 tickets, because some nights 9:30 is sadly past our bedtime!

After a fantastic dinner combining two of our favorite "genres", small plates and local/organic at a new restaurant called Level, we maneuvered over the icy cobblestone streets of Annapolis to Rams Head. The crowd for the 6:30 show was interesting to say the least. It was a mix of middle-aged women wearing embroidered sweatshirts(probably Kevin fans like me:), but I will never be caught dead in that attire!), Cougars(Jas' comment, not mine), country/folk music fans, and some other younger trendy couples. Definitely some good people watching!

Since Rams Head in Annapolis only has about 300 seats, and you sit at tables, most of the seats are pretty good. I was so excited when we got there to see that our table was right next to the stage, so I was less than 10ft. away from Kevin! Although he said from the beginning that they wouldn't be playing "Footloose"to the dismay of many women in the crowd, they put on a really good show and we had a great time. He is super skinny in person, btw!

Before heading back to the hotel we stopped for a killer dessert, a rice krispie treat dipped in caramel and chocolate and rolled in pecans. Sorry- I showed restraint above, and didn't describe our dinner and this creation was truly ridiculous:) We were staying on the waterfront and looking forward to a good night sleep, but I think we've gotten so used to hearing the fan over the monitor in Chase's room, because we both slept terribly. Despite a restless night sleep, getting away for the night was really nice, but we missed the little man like crazy!