Date Night

Scott and I attempted a date night a couple weeks ago, and it was an adventure worth blogging about! My family invited us to go to a Jazz game with them and Scott being the Jazz fanatic he is was all for it. It all starting with me rushing rushing around the house to make sure Ben was fed and had a clean bum and I was dressed in real people clothes with makeup on. April arrived and began the process of leaving Ben. He freaks out if he goes from me to the babysitter. So I hand Ben to Scott and then I leave and then Scott hands him to April and then he leaves. We finally get in the car and we are running about 30 minutes late. And the car won't start. Totally dead! So we squeeze April's car into our garage with inches to spare and jump our car. Do the pass down (again) with Ben and leave. We thought it would be fun and economical to take Trax downtown to the game. We were purchasing our tickets as the train pulled up. Scott put a $20 into the machine, not thinking that it would give him roughly $16 in changes. So we are scrambling to gather all the coins before the train pulls away. We made it. But as we approach downtown there is a train backup and we are stuck about six blocks away from the game. We discussed the option of making a run for it with the other passengers, but decided we still wouldn't beat the train. We finally made it to the ESA and went to the door to wait for Wayne who had our tickets. We waited and waited and finally called him and realized we were on the wrong side of the building!! So we book it to the other end and make it in just in time for tip off. Whew!! The games was a lot of fun and the Jazz were victorious. We had a little girl sitting behind us who was probably seven who was an absolute crazed fan. She knew all the players names and almost all the rules (she was about seven), and she would not stop screaming at the top of her lungs the entire game. The German tourists in front of us kept looking back and giggling about how ridiculous it was. All in all, great game. After the game Scott and I headed back to Trax. Luckily we made in onto the first train, of course there wasn't really room to breathe until the 21st South stop. We made it to our stop and went to our car. It was freezing. Scott tried to unlock the car, but realized his keyless entry wasn't working becuase once again the car was completely dead. And we had no jumper cables. Awesome. We started calling people to bail us out and then a very nice man offered to help. Bless him. On our way home we realized that Scott had to drive carpool in the morning, and the odds were high that the car wouldn't be charged up enough and we wouldn't have anyone to help at 5 am. So after we got home April followed Scott to WalMart so that he could get jumper cables and a car charger. We made it to bed around 1 am. No shortage of adventure for us!