"would you like a sandwich?"

had a fabulous night last night. mona and i went on a double date with beau and liz, and we went to go have dinner out at the Country Lodge. hmmm.....i feel like i skipped some important detail....

oh yeah. i remember what it was.

i am dating a beautiful, smart, hilarious, caring, and just generally FABULOUS girl named mona renae langstraat. best weekend ever? survey says yes.

so anyway. mona and i went on a double date with beau and liz, and we had dinner out at Country Lodge. the drive to the Lodge was marvelous. no traffic. none. at all. it was GREAT. record time. without speeding (not that there are actually enforced speed LIMITS here in freetown....). we get to the restaurant and sit down. waiter brings us menus. we take a look and decide that splitting some pizzas or ordering chinese are the two cheapest ways to go, so we decide on a couple pizzas. waiter comes back to take our order and.....no pizza. and wait! no chinese. hmmm. pasta it is! liz orders seafood pasta (with various assorted "seafoods"), and mona and i each order some chicken pasta. beau spies some lasagna that looks pretty good, and orders that. 5 minutes later, no lasagna. hmmm. beau takes another look and decides to order some other pasta-ish dish (dont really remember what it was). 5 minutes later, no "other pasta-ish dish". poor beau! but wait! "would you like a sandwich?" *insert beau laughing/crying like a maniac here*. finally beau just ordered the seafood pasta like his wife, and food was all ordered and done. we had a good time just sitting, laughing, telling stories, and just generally enjoying each others' company. the food was quite delicious, and VERY rich. then the REAL motivation for going out: dessert. we ordered two chocolate-lava cake things with vanilla ice cream. what did we get? two chocolate-lave cake things with vanilla ice cream.....AND THEN two little bowls with two scoops of vanilla ice cream in each. oh this poor waiter. he really did not understand. for such a large quantity of food mix-ups, the food we ended up eating was all very good, and the night was so much fun. of course, i am also very partial to the company....

another enjoyable ride home with NO traffic (beau apparently used ALL his luck for the traffic, instead of saving some for the food that he wanted). we get back, and mona and i enjoyed some nice time together on deck 8, then watched about 3/4 of The Dark Knight. an amazing night.

God has been so good to me. i have been so blessed in so many different ways, but mona ranks close to the top on the list of blessings. thank you, Father, simply for bringing her into my life.

i hope you have a marvelous day.

ciao for now.