BEST DATE EVER!!!!!

Well, its after 4 a.m. and I'm just now getting settled into bed for a few hours before I have to get right back up again. I returned home about an hour and a half ago from the most amazing date I've had in a long time. In fact, I can't remember when I'd ever been on a date this amazing. He didn't do anything super spectacular, it was just a really beautiful evening.

We both love sushi so we agreed to meet up at one of my fave sushi restaurants for dinner and drinks. I ran into a few snags and ended up being an hour and a half late in meeting him. I could tell that he was slightly irritated by my extreme tardiness but I loved how he kept reassuring me that everything was okay and that he wasn't holding it against me. He said, "Ebony, it could have been worse. You could have been speeding down the highway on the way to meet me and gotten in a car accident and killed yourself! Trust me, its okay." I was thankful that he wanted to remain positive rather than dwell on my being late (thank God, because I can't tell you how horrible I felt about it).

The sushi restaurant we were going to is located in a plaza that's full of restaurants, a dance club and a large hotel with restaurants inside of it. So there is plenty to do around this place. When we got to the sushi restaurant we discovered that there would be a forty-five to sixty minute wait for a table! He offered to wait if I wanted to wait since we had both wanted sushi so bad. But he'd waited so patiently for me that I decided we should go somewhere else to eat. I couldn't make him wait to eat any longer. So, we decided to go to a mexican restaurant instead.

The food wasn't all that great but the conversation was wonderful because it was free-flowing and comfortable. It didn't feel like this was our first date. It felt like we were good friends who were evolving into something more. It was like we were in each other's heads the entire conversation ... we have a lot in common and didn't run out of things to talk about at all.

Our conversation went on until we looked up and noticed we were the only ones left in the non-smoking section of the restaurant and we didn't see many people over in the smoking section or at the bar. The restaurant was closing. I was disappointed because I didn't want the date to end but it was getting late and the restaurant was closing ... so ...

Then he said, "So where do you want to go now?" I hadn't thought about that. I only knew that I didn't want the date to end.

We ended up going to a sports bar that wasn't far from the sushi restaurant in the same plaza. There we found a nice quiet corner surrounded by flat screen tv's and talked until the whole place shut down at one o'clock in the morning.

THEEEEEEEEEEEEEN ....

I couldn't remember where I parked so I had to get in his car and drive around looking for it ... (lol ... i know, i know). We found my car, parked next to it and sat in the car and talked for another hour until we both got sleepy and had to end the conversation.

Like I said, nothing spectacular happened ... it was just an amazing date because its been such a long time since I've felt that comfortable with a person ... laughing with him and talking about deep things with him ... it was nice.

Thanks for listening ... this blog was totally random and pointless to you guys probably ... but I just had to gush about my date before I started counting sheep!

*big cheesy grin*