Thank's Mike

When Mike asked me a couple weeks ago where I wanted to go out to eat for my Birthday and Valentine's day, I had no idea. We usually go to Red Lobster once for the two days combined but the last couple years Red Lobster's prices had gone up and the serving size and quality of the food had gone down. I think it must be me as this seems to be happing at a few restaurants that we go to. When Mike was on second shift a few years ago, he and I had a few places that we would go for lunch from time to time. Then suddenly we decided to stop going to place after place one at a time. There was the Chinese place,the pizza place, the Mexican place, and a few others. Then one by one they were off of our list. The Mexican place went bankrupt after the produce that they got from China spread Hepatitis to many. The Chinese place's ( the only Chinese place that I have ever eaten at where the food was good at once) food turned from good to terrible when the original cooks went back to China ( they were able to work for only a few years here and go back to China and have their families live a better life than they ever imagined as one server told me.) and other cooks came from China with an admiration for onions( yuck !) Anyway, I could not think of one place that I would like to go to. For what it would cost for the two of us to go out( let alone the whole family ) I could cook two or three meals for the family at home. For this reason and so many more we ate Valentine's Day dinner and my Birthday take out at home. The kids were off on Monday so Mike decided to take a vacation Day yesterday and take me out. I was sort of miffed when the alarm went off and he told me that he wasn't going to work but I went with it and boy was I glad that I did. Turned out that Mike had remembered that we ate at Bennigan's on the first night of our Honeymoon. We had the Monte Cristo sandwich and loved it. Not too long ago we were talking about how good they were and Mike found that Bennigan's had opened a few restaurants in Ohio. We had to travel a little over an hour but we had lunch there. What a wonderful surprise. We even tried their new desert, fried brownie, fried Twinkie, and fried Zinger,all with ice cream and whipped cream. We had a wonderful time and will probably go back in the not too distant future.
Only problem is that since I now have had my Birthday/ Valentine's day lunch out, My Birthday is now over and I have to stay thirty nine. Sniff sniff, sob, sob !