Date Night!

Leah and I went to see John Legend on Thursday night at the Dodge Theatre. We both love John Legend, although I probably like him better.

It was a really good evening. We got some gift cards to Fleming's Steak House and Wine Bar for Christmas, and so that's where we ate dinner. We shared a Cesar Salad and then Leah got the petite filet and I got a boneless ribeye. We shared the shoestring potatoes and some chipotle mac & cheese.

I always feel uncomfortable at fancy restaurants because I know the written rules (you use the utensils from the inside out), but I always worry about the unwritten rules. Like the shoestring potatoes weren't served with ketchup. So we asked for some ketchup, and they brought us a whole bunch in a gravy boat. We ended up dipping our fries in the boat, and feeling like rubes.



Estelle opened for John Legend, and she was really good and funny. John Legend has a really great voice, but it seemed like he was under the weather or something, because he wasn't really chatty with the audience.

The crowd is usually the best part of these things. Leah and I had the World's Broadest Couple in front of us. The man was maybe 6'3", 220, and his woman was broad-shouldered. The crowd was really good, though. Really diverse, with young and old, and lots of interracial couples, too.

The show ended with Legend playing "Are You Out There," which he premired at the DNC in Denver. When we walked out, there was a group of 17 year old white girls fishing their Parliments out of their purses and saying how "They hate Barack Obama so much." So weird.

Anyway, I have pictures, but I seem to have lost the cable for my digital camera. More to come!