We drove downtown and he surprised me when we pulled up to Reunion Tower. In the 7 years we've lived here we've never been up to the top. I was pretty excited that he chose this for dinner because it's exactly the type of thing I like. I love trying new things and Peter does not so it's very atypical for him to choose to eat somewhere new.
He made reservations at the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower - "Five Sixty" a Wolfgang Puck restaurant.
It was a super nice restaurant with an amazing view at the perfect time - sunset. Way to go, Peter! Best anniversary ever!
The menu is Asian Fusion and some of it was a little too fancy for me, but a lot sounded delicious. We didn't hold back. :) We had delicious cocktails (mine was called "Show Me Lov" - fitting, right?), Organic Chicken Dumplings, Crispy Pork Belly Bao Buns, some other appetizer that was exotic and not a hit, and Peter got Sushi. We were basically full at this point but still had our main courses to enjoy - Peter got fish, I got steak, and some delicious fried rice.
After dinner, I ordered dessert plus they surprised me with an additional dessert to celebrate our anniversary - another surprise from Peter.
Surprise dessert! I don't remember what it was, but it was delicious!
This is the Bittersweet Chocolate Souffle that I ordered. We were so full but this dessert sounded so amazing that I couldn't NOT get it. Well, it takes like 15 minutes to prepare which I was fine with but Peter seemed to be in a hurry. He kept talking about how we needed to hurry because we had to go pick Joe up from work - his car was in the shop? It seemed odd since I hadn't heard that before but okay, whatever. So I wasn't in a big hurry but at this point Peter was really pushing things along.
Reunion Tower
So, we get the car from the Valet and Peter is driving. As we are leaving downtown, it seems like we are going the wrong way and I mention that to Peter. But, he was following the GPS directions on his phone so I just chalk it up to the fact that I get so turned around downtown and never am really confident on which way to go on those streets and freeways down there.
Well, so Peter is driving and all of a sudden I realize he's getting off the exit by the fairpark, which I know for sure is the wrong way. So I start to say something and then I look up on the building in front of me and there's a big sign advertising the musical "Wicked" and it hits me that Peter is taking me to see Wicked!!!!
He totally had me fooled. I thought we were just going to dinner and then going home, which was totally enough. He had been so thoughtful in the place he picked for dinner and the money he'd spent on dinner. I had no idea there was anything else!
So once it hits me we are going to Wicked it then hits me that there are no people around. Just cars. Peter then tells me that's why he was trying to hurry things along. He didn't want to tell me not to get the souffle because then I'd know that something was up but he also was trying to hurry us out of the restaurant. We were about 15 minutes late at this point. The good news was that the parking attendants were all gone so at least we didn't have to pay for parking.
I wasn't stressed about missing the first 15 minutes because we've seen the musical before and that wasn't my favorite part anyway.
So, Peter showed the usher our tickets and he led us to our seats... except he kept walking forward, and walking forward... When he finally stopped we were at some amazing seats!!! It was so awesome!
When Peter bought us tickets to go to Wicked before for my birthday. What I didn't mention previously was where we sat. We were in the balcony in the very last row to the very far right. There were about 6 more seats to our right and we would have been in the very far corner of the theater. Not good seats and I have ribbed Peter about that many times. (To be fair, they were still expensive!)
So this time he said he wanted to make up for our previous seats and boy, did he do it! I can only imagine how much money he spent. I was so very touched that it brought tears to my eyes. Things have been tense between Peter and I lately and tonight he really did a great job of showing me that he loved me. The whole evening was carefully orchestrated to be my perfect evening. Each choice he made with my likes in mind - totally selfless.
Look "badlands"!
I didn't have time to "get ready" for the date because I didn't rush home like I was supposed to because I thought it was going to be no big deal. I totally felt under dressed for 560.
See how many rows are behind us? If you look up and in the far left corner you can imagine where we sat last time.
It was amazing. I almost didn't want to leave! And we both really enjoy the musical now (Peter knows many of the songs). Maxwell has been begging us to take him and I felt bad for a moment that he wasn't there with us. But as I watched it, I was glad because there some parts of it that I think it would be better if he were older.
Thanks babe for an amazing anniversary!!!
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