it's going to be a very busy semester for shawn since this is going to be his last. he is very excited about it and i am too. anyway, since he is going to be busy, i decided to take him out on a date. a week before our date i asked him what he wanted to eat and he told me mac and cheese. you see, shawn is a cheese fiend. so i went on an online quest to find the best mac and cheese in the area.
then i found the oxbow public market on a discussion at chowhound and they said it was really good. so with randall in the back of the car, treats in hand we headed off to napa.
since i haven't been in the napa area for over a year, we got lost for a little bit. well, technically not lost, because we were on the street we were supposed to be in. our directions said soscol ave, but what we see is highway 221. shawn got a little frustrated and we got gas because we were running low and i asked where soscol is and she said that it was the same as 221. so off we went and realized that we were less than 5 minutes away!
when we got there, we surveyed the place for a little bit and went to the cheese and wine place. shawn was like a little kid a candy store when he saw all the cheeses, i had to calm him down a bit. we then had a seat and ordered. he had the mac and cheese and i had the auto strata with tomato soup. everything was really, really good! we sat there and talked about how good the food was.
he told me that he felt like his mouth just had s*x after eating the mac and cheese. my sandwich and soup were really good too. the serving size were normal people size, not like the gigantic ones they have at claim jumper, and really filling. i guess, you really savor every bite of something that is really good, and thus making you full and satisfied. i just haven't sat down at a place and enjoy my food for a long time. i just have been eating for nourishment and haven't been really enjoying it.
we then went to ritual coffee,i had a latte and shawn had a macchiato. it was good coffee too. i actually don't know if it was really good coffee or it was just the whole experience. you know what, on second thought, it really was good coffee. there were not a lot of tables so we ended up sharing a table with these two older ladies. one of them asked me if we were visiting and i told her no, because i just live like 20 minutes away. she then told me that she asked because i had a camera and was taking pictures of the food and i told her that i blog about food. she then had a bog smile on her face and told me that it was so cute and her daughter would really like it because she was a foodie. i told shawn about it when he got to the table and bugged me about giving her my blog card, and i told him no, because i'm really shy. he then just did it himself!
after coffee we picked up some cupcakes to give to our friends anna and darren who we were going to visit after eating. we got them smores and passionfruit cupcakes at kara's cupcakes. the fatty in me told me that i should get a mini of something, so i decided to get the chocolate velvet one and it was really good. met in your mouth good.
so before doing anymore damage to our wallets, we left and headed off to rohnert park to our friends' apartment. when we got there, we just waited for anna and we got food. we had a big greasy, good burgers at this place near their apartment and finished the night off with frozen yogurt.
it was a really great day and i think that we should do it more often... if our budget allows it. but yeah, i really enjoyed it and i think that we started the semester right. what about you? what have you done for yourself lately?! enjoy, you only live once!
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