The Met

Quite a few months ago my Mom was given some gift certificates to The Metropolitan Grill in Seattle. We saved them until we had an occasion to use them. Then a few days ago when we were at Costco we saw that they had a deal where you could buy two $50 dollar gift certificates for $80 we thought that was a great idea as we could buy some to go along with the ones we already had and we could save some money on our meal. We invited our good friends Scott and Melissa to go with us. Being Seattle Terence and I dressed in jeans and nice shirts (there was no indication of any kind of dress code on their website). When we got to Scott and Melissa's house they were both dressed up, oh crap! We proceeded to push back our reservation and run down to the local Ross to see if we could find something suitable to wear. Terence found a pair of khakis that was a little too tight and a pair of black dress shoes that looked like orthopedic shoes. It's hard to find size 13 shoes anywhere, anytime let alone when you are under a time crunch. I was able to find a reasonable dress (for only 12 dollars) and a really cute pair of black heals. Wardrobe crisis averted.

The retaurant itself is very nice, classic fancy style. We had a very good meal. Terence ordered the biggest steak I have ever seen in my life! It was a 38 ounce porterhouse! He said it was some of the best steak he has ever eaten. All the rest of us got smaller more manageable steaks.

By the time we were done with our food we were STUFFED but of course when you go out to a nice dinner you have to have dessert. I had the burnt cream which is by far my favorite fancy restaurant dessert. Terence had a peach cobbler and Melissa had this amazing looking molten chocolate brownie most of which I think she took home with her. After dinner we were so stuffed all we could do was go back to Scott and Melissa's house and crash on the couch. After about an hour of that Terence and I were able to waddle out to the car and drive home.

We had Olga (Jared and Emily's exchange student aka their 17 year old daughter) babysit for us while we were gone. That girl is AMAZING! She had both of the kids asleep in bed, the kitchen was cleaned, she unloaded my dishwasher, loaded it back up, swept the floor, put all the toys away, organized the shoes by the front door and folded all the blankets. My house was clean when I got home! I was sure to give her an extra tip for her extra efforts.

It was such a fun evening and I would love to say we will be doing it again soon but you only have a dinner like that once every 5 years or so. The calories alone were enough to last a lifetime!