I had a wonderful day off with Dave. It is not often that I get to spend a whole day with him and not have to worry about work or anything else. Friday Dave had a furlough day and he asked me to spend the day with him. After getting the go ahead from the company I work for to take the day off, we started planning the day. Pizza and shopping and get out of town seemed to be the themes for the day.
Now Dave and I rarely fight, but sometimes he gets testy and I get frustrated. These are usually times when we are shopping or eating out when the sales clerk gets too pushy or the wait staff make mistakes or take too long or if the food is not just right. So I always prepare for a few minor confrontations. I always don't do any shopping for myself that might take too long for me to compare prices, try things on, or just otherwise bore Dave to distraction. When we go out together it is all about both of us having a great time, but neither of us being too selfish in the shopping or food area. Like for instance, I love fish to eat, but I never ask Dave to go to a restaurant that is primarily fish, like Red Lobster or something. On the other hand, Dave knows that I only like pizza up to a point, whereas he could eat it morning, noon and night. So he is real conscious about subjecting me to an overload of pizza dining. You see, Dave is one of the sweetest men I know - in a manly way. :)
But we decided to go to the mall in Oklahoma City and then see if we could find a pizza joint to eat at. We are still looking for a good pizza in Oklahoma. So far we have tried all the pizza joints around Enid and even some out in the vast, wide open country around Enid. We even tried a place in Edmond. It was okay, not bad, but still we want the right ingredients, the fresh made taste, perfect crust.
We started our day off at Cafe Garcia to eat a breakfast of two soft taco breakfast tacos with bacon, coffee and on my tacos, fresh mild salsa. This is our favorite breakfast. We usually have it on Sunday morning, but Cafe Garcia has decided to not serve breakfast on Sunday during the summer. Hopefully this will not continue into the fall.
After a brief stop back at the house and then gassing up the car, we were on our way to OKC. The trip always seems longer than we think it is going to be, but Dave listens to talk radio or Status Quo and I read. So we enjoy the quiet companionable time.
At the mall we picked out a couple of stores that we wanted to check out. I will just give you the highlights. The Buckle. Dave found a cool shirt. The sales clerk, Kathy, wasn't too pushy and actually was quite helpful. I even found that they shorten jeans for free so in the future we will check out their jeans for Dave and see if we can get some stylish jeans. I, of course, need to lose more weight to be able to fit into anything in that store. We also found something at Eddie Bauer for me - a light weight vest that has 4 pockets. I want to be able to take my cell phone, camera, binoculars, and video camera (all of them pocket size) and have them accessible quickly when we go hiking. I can't stand things hanging on my neck and a backpack makes it hard to get to the items quickly. They didn't have my size, but again, the sales clerk was so nice and she helped us order it online - should be here in 3-6 days - and I think the shipping is free.
All in all, it was a nice pleasant visit to the mall. As I think of it we didn't even run into groups of people who wouldn't get out of our way or walked right into our path, so we didn't have that irritant either.
Well then it was 3:00 p.m. and we didn't want to do more window shopping, but the pizzeria that we wanted to go to wasn't open until 5:00 p.m. Not knowing what to do we did nothing except drive around Bricktown. We found the first location of the pizzeria, but of course it was closed and it didn't seem to have a lot of parking spaces. Maybe people walk there. It was in an out of the way spot. So we went looking for the other location with the help of our GPS. It was in a better location and more parking. After waiting around at the local Panera until 5, we finally were seated at the Wedge Pizzeria on Western Ave. The waiter was very attentive, explaining how all their ingredients were either made there or imported from Italy or as fresh as they can be. We were given some samples of their homemade meatballs and gelato. Delicious. The pizza was baked in a wood fire oven and was excellent. We topped our pizza with the homemade Italian sausage and mozzarella. The sauce was a combination of the garlic and marinara. I think next time we will order the marinara. Unless I can convince Dave to order two pizzas and he get his with his toppings and I can get mine with my toppings and we can take some home for later.
All in all it was a wonderful day. We have only been married for 6 1/2 years, but I still love hanging out with Dave. He is fun, intelligent, and comfortable to be around. It is so hard to describe. Guess I will stop trying.
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