Wifey, Me & Tony Roma!

Wifey and me finally had our date yesterday and it didn't start out very well though. After getting the boys ready and sending them off to school and putting away the hdmi cables that I was messing around with earlier, we got ourselves ready to go for the afternoon hi-tea date that we had vouchers for. The hotel wasn't too far from my house, probably a 10 minute drive maximum and we were so excited about our date that we left early. The hi-tea was only supposed to start at around 2.30pm and we were so early that we decided to drive as slow as we could. There I was for the first time in my life hoping there would be heavy traffic on the roads ... LOL!

After crawling around like a snail to the hotel, we finally get there and find out it's held in this place called the Piano Lounge, a sort of open lounge in the hotel lobby. Now, the moment I stepped into the place I start feeling totally uncomfortable. I was even really hesitant to go in but after a little persuasion from wifey, I got ourselves a seat on the couch. I was still hesitant and told wifey I don't feel like having the hi-tea. She gave me this bewildered look and ask me, what's wrong?

There really was nothing wrong, the place though a little open and just too darn close the lobby entrance wasn't all that bad, but I was just uncomfortable. I don't know why it was so. It's not like this is the first time I've been to stuff like this (buddy, remember the time you conned me to attend this Secretaries Hi-tea function once and we were the only 2 guys there? LOL!) but I was totally not myself and I told wifey I don't feel like having the hi-tea here. She was disappointed but we both never insist in doing something neither one of us is uncomfortable with.

So, we walk out of there and I tell wifey that I'm sorry and I'll take her somewhere else where I'll feel much more myself (and no buddy, I didn't take her for banana leaf rice okay ... LOL). I decided to take a drive to a mall near the hotel called Sunway Pyramid. I knew they had some pretty cool restaurants there and I'm sure I'll find something she'll like. After we reach there, park the car, which was a breeze cos it's was a work day. The parking in this place is like impossible on a weekend and I was at least glad for that.

We walk around the place trying to find some other place to eat and they had a quite a few restaurants there that I was spoilt for choice and didn't know which one to pick and the fact that wifey said she doesn't mind eating anywhere made my decision all that much harder ... hehehe ... The first place I wanted to try was TGIF but then I checked the information counter and they had Tony Roma's listed. My buddy Adrian and Marzie has blogged about how great the food is at this place (and he's seldom wrong when it comes to food places) and since I haven't tried it before, I decided to give it a try and I grab wifey and we head towards Tony Roma's.


When we reached there we got seated immediately seeing as how it was a work day and also slightly way past lunch time. The place was pretty quiet with only about 2 or 3 other patrons, just the way I liked it ... hehehe ... We get seated at this nice quiet corner and start looking through the menu. I decided to order the Blue Cheese burger (which was also recommended by both Adrian and Marzie on their blogs) and wifey ordered this urmmm, Garlic Chicken with Rosemary leaves or something like that. The food took a while in coming but I wasn't complaining, after all there I was cozying up in this corner table in a dark little restaurant with some music playing in the background that I couldn't recognize with the love of my life and feeling like a kid on his first date again.


We chatted, messed around by taking some pictures, eaves dropped on this couple a few tables away from us trying to guess their nationality (they were a German and a Filipino by the way, well atleast wifey thought so), made up some conspiracy theories, laughed at the government a little bit and then our food finally came and it sure smelt yummy :D The first thing we did, which was what probably what all bloggers would do was take a picture of our food ... hahaha ... Wifey started digging in first cos my burger took a little while longer to arrive. When I first ordered the burger she looked at me and said, only a burger? You sure honey? I don't think that's going to fill you up but fill me up it did. I could hardly finish my burger when it finally came and I was stuffed like a turkey on thanksgiving by the time I was through with it.


I'm a fan of blue cheese and I must say I wasn't disappointed one bit when my buddy said the blue cheese burgers at Tony Roma's were out of this world. The blue cheese was simple excellent and so darn rich that I had to struggle to finish my meal. I was absolutely satisfied with my meal and I must say it was one of the best dates I've had with wifey in a long time, so much so that I promised her that I'll take a day off from work every month and go do this again with her, just the two of us ... :D And the moment we both got home, we headed straight to bed (now don't get any notty ideas) and took a nice quiet nap together, seeing as how we were both stuffed and it was the best thing to do ... hehehe ...

I'm glad I felt uncomfortable at the hotel cos even though I didn't utilize the free vouchers, I had a great time with wifey and it's made us, well me really, realize that we hardly spent time alone together. It's not easy finding the time when you have kids, especially 2 hyper active boys and so we treasure and cherish every single chance we get to be alone. And if you're reading this, I hope you had a great time too honey cos I know I did :) Looking forward to our next date, babe ;)
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