Happy New Year!

It's 2015.
I like odd years. I do better in odd years. Perhaps because I am odd.

Christmas was quiet and perfect.
New Years was a bit different.

It is our anniversary on New Years Eve so we normally go to dinner at one of our favorite places and have a great bottle of wine and it's a quiet early evening.  No partying in the streets for us.

This year was different. We had massages in the morning. Perfect way to start a day if you ask me. We went to the town of Middleburg for lunch. Rick has a favorite chocolatier there and wanted to get some truffles.  I am not one to say no to chocolate, ever. 
Rick was having a helluva time parallel parking, which is never an issue for him, but this day it was. We got the car parked and we walked to the chocolate store and they were closed. 
That made me laugh. I mean after all Rick went through to park there and we were now just leaving.

We hopped back in the car and went a few more blocks to the Salamander Resort.
Rick had never been there so we did the tour and then bellied up to the bar and had some wine and then decided on some cheese, meat and olive platter that was yummy and called for a 2nd glass of wine.
Rick was ordering and I wasn't seeing the prices of anything but when the bill came he went to the bathroom. Oh how convenient mister. I looked at the bill and about died. $22 a glass of wine? 
We had 2 glasses a piece!  We could have bought the bottle for heavens sake or 2 bottles!! 
When he came back and sat down I shrieked, "Did you see the price of a glass of Cabernet?"
He said, "Yes, that is why I got that one, it was the cheapest."  HOLY SHIT.
So we had a few pieces of cheese and some prosciutto and 2 glasses of wine apiece and spent $113.00+  Crazy right?  Rick kept say, "Oh what the hell we don't do this often" 

We had a nice time there. Everyone was so friendly. 
We were talking in our quiet voices and I swear the woman next to us at the bar had the hearing of a canine. Rick mentioned that if we couldn't get back in time maybe Doggy Day Care could keep her. I said, "Oh sure they can but then they feed her with their food and you know what that means."  Rick laughs and says, "yep she'll have the shits"
Sure enough at this moment this well heeled woman turns her bar stool around with her champagne glass in her hand and says, "Who has the shits?" to us.  I about died!  
Of course my husband doesn't miss a beat or give a rats ass that he is talking to a tony stranger about our dog having the shits. 
First he said, "Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize I was being that loud. I hope we didn't upset you or your lunch." 
She said, "Oh no,( while touching him all over the place) I have great hearing and it made me laugh"
So then Rick proceeds to tell her that we were referring to our dog.  Now these 2 are in a discussion about pets. 
He can talk to anyone about any thing I swear.

When we got home I just didn't feel like going out.  So we took the dog for a walk and discussed our evening and what we wanted to do. Neither of us really wanted to go back out. 
Neither of us wanted to tell the other that we wanted to stay home. 
I suggested we look at it like we're doing something different. So we watched a movie and we had take out for dinner and opened another bottle of wine. This was a bottle of Jordan 1997 Cabernet that we have been saving. Ooh it's a good one. I highly recommend it. We bought a case of this wine while in Sonoma at the Jordan winery in 2000. Not sure we could even afford this wine today. But it was smooth and it was the perfect ending to our meal and a great day. So it ended up being a perfect day with a lot of laughter and that's never a bad thing.

Hope you all had a wonderful New Year.