Trinidad and Tobago, currently, has very few active cases and a number of people under quarantine across the islands within medical facilities. As a result of very few community acquired cases our government has decided on a phased re opening of our lovely islands.
We have slowly opened sectors of our economy and have now arrived at the fun things.
Restaurants have now resumed indoor dining with reduced capacity of course and with strict adherence to social distancing and wearing of masks; also cinemas and other social places have resumed function.
Now Ronnie and I usually go out once a week and twice on a rare occasion. The reason for this is not that we love to eat out or that we have a lot of friends to meet, remember that both our moms are great cooks, we usually go out in order to spend time with each other without the ultra-conservative eyes of parents or even the distraction of the PS4.
As all essential shift workers can attest to, I am sure, our date nights were usually on an odd day during the week and sometimes at an odd time as well. I can’t say we minded it much as we were usually one of the very few patrons there at 2pm on a Wednesday afternoon and the staff was usually extra attentive as we were the only things that required their attention.
When I imagined married life, I always wondered how much we would go out as we would be with each other all the time and that’s why we used to go out anyway.
After that horrid quarantined period left us without our favorite take out food, we were eager to get some good food and have our first date night as a married couple!
I had it planned in my head. I have the day off, I can drop him to work (as he hates the traffic) then when I pick him up after work we could go for lunch! Destination unknown but I always secretly hope for sushi.
Great! I am set, the plan sounds concrete.
I drop him to work in the morning with my sleepy face and non- morning person demeanor but still happy to have saved him from the dreaded traffic.
I get home and I do some chores and I get ready for our date. I wear something casual but upscale and I put on contacts, I do my hair (my secret weapon) and I do my makeup and I head out the door.
I wait for Ronnie in the carpark and as I see him walking towards me I open the door and step out to greet him. I could see that his entire expression changed. From at work doctor face to OMG my baby is here.
I thought to myself I haven’t seen this face in a while. When we went out pre wedding he would usually pick me up, I would smile at him as I walk towards him and his goofy OMG smile would come across his face.
He got into the car and proceeded to tell me some nice things and then we were off to the date. The restaurant was quaint and had a variety of new options for us to try. The meal was great. Ronnie had a Greek lamb with cous cous and I had a tortellini with spinach and ricotta cheese with chicken.
I was in a state of euphoria! Maybe it was just the food, maybe it was the drinks or maybe it was something else.
Hmmmm..
What I figured out when we got home was that it wasn’t the food from the restaurants we were missing all the time, it was the looking good for one another, the giggles as we drive to our destination listening to music and doing silly dances in the car, the fighting over the menu choices and even the people watching at the restaurant (or as we say in Trinidad the maco-ing). It was all these things that made our date great. It was this that bonded us together and made us feel closer together. It was a shared experience that we could look back on and say, ‘remember when we went to..’
The best part of the whole thing was that it never really ended as we came home to the same place and the conversation from our date just continued as if we never even left the restaurant.
I concluded that my initial thoughts about going out were a bit underestimated and even though I still maintain that we won’t go out as much, I think that a date night is required every once in a while.
What do you all do for date night? Does anyone do at home date nights? Feel free to comment below and let us know these married people secrets.
We have slowly opened sectors of our economy and have now arrived at the fun things.
Restaurants have now resumed indoor dining with reduced capacity of course and with strict adherence to social distancing and wearing of masks; also cinemas and other social places have resumed function.
Now Ronnie and I usually go out once a week and twice on a rare occasion. The reason for this is not that we love to eat out or that we have a lot of friends to meet, remember that both our moms are great cooks, we usually go out in order to spend time with each other without the ultra-conservative eyes of parents or even the distraction of the PS4.
As all essential shift workers can attest to, I am sure, our date nights were usually on an odd day during the week and sometimes at an odd time as well. I can’t say we minded it much as we were usually one of the very few patrons there at 2pm on a Wednesday afternoon and the staff was usually extra attentive as we were the only things that required their attention.
When I imagined married life, I always wondered how much we would go out as we would be with each other all the time and that’s why we used to go out anyway.
After that horrid quarantined period left us without our favorite take out food, we were eager to get some good food and have our first date night as a married couple!
I had it planned in my head. I have the day off, I can drop him to work (as he hates the traffic) then when I pick him up after work we could go for lunch! Destination unknown but I always secretly hope for sushi.
Great! I am set, the plan sounds concrete.
I drop him to work in the morning with my sleepy face and non- morning person demeanor but still happy to have saved him from the dreaded traffic.
I get home and I do some chores and I get ready for our date. I wear something casual but upscale and I put on contacts, I do my hair (my secret weapon) and I do my makeup and I head out the door.
I wait for Ronnie in the carpark and as I see him walking towards me I open the door and step out to greet him. I could see that his entire expression changed. From at work doctor face to OMG my baby is here.
I thought to myself I haven’t seen this face in a while. When we went out pre wedding he would usually pick me up, I would smile at him as I walk towards him and his goofy OMG smile would come across his face.
He got into the car and proceeded to tell me some nice things and then we were off to the date. The restaurant was quaint and had a variety of new options for us to try. The meal was great. Ronnie had a Greek lamb with cous cous and I had a tortellini with spinach and ricotta cheese with chicken.
I was in a state of euphoria! Maybe it was just the food, maybe it was the drinks or maybe it was something else.
Hmmmm..
What I figured out when we got home was that it wasn’t the food from the restaurants we were missing all the time, it was the looking good for one another, the giggles as we drive to our destination listening to music and doing silly dances in the car, the fighting over the menu choices and even the people watching at the restaurant (or as we say in Trinidad the maco-ing). It was all these things that made our date great. It was this that bonded us together and made us feel closer together. It was a shared experience that we could look back on and say, ‘remember when we went to..’
The best part of the whole thing was that it never really ended as we came home to the same place and the conversation from our date just continued as if we never even left the restaurant.
I concluded that my initial thoughts about going out were a bit underestimated and even though I still maintain that we won’t go out as much, I think that a date night is required every once in a while.
What do you all do for date night? Does anyone do at home date nights? Feel free to comment below and let us know these married people secrets.
