Scott turned 30 exactly a week ago! I figured I’d wait until all of the fun was over to blog about it, and then I got lazy. But here we are now!
Last Wednesday I took Scott out to dinner at Four Square, and you can see my Yelp review of it here. It was still fun to look nice and go somewhere fancy, but seriously, my cheesecake was the size of a silver dollar.
Afterwards we tried to go to Bull McCabe’s downtown, but it was the kind of crowded where there wasn’t anywhere to sit, but there weren’t enough people standing around to not feel awkward doing so. Then we tried to go to Whiskey, but I’m not old enough! You have to be 23! I thought I had gotten past the part of my life where I wasn’t allowed into bars, but I guess I was wrong. We ended up going back to our apartment and drinking from our own private bar (a pack of PBR in the fridge).
Thursday we had Scott’s FAMILY party. We had dinner at Tyler’s Taproom (where I never seem to order the right thing) and then opened presents at Meema’s. Scott got some barbecue books, including one on North Carolina barbecue that I covet (even though it’s pretty much mine since it’s his), and some clothes. I also got him a cake:

The origin of this joke is here.
Friday night was DATE NIGHT. We had dinner at Ted’s Montana Grill near Southpoint, and it was surprisingly really good! We thought it was going to be a generic sit-down burger place, but nope! My burger was tasty and the strawberry shortcake was HEAVEN.
We spent a while after that shopping around for a dress for me, which is always hard. The biggest problem I have with shopping for clothes is a) I have no patience for it, and b) I’m picky. My taste is pretty simple: I like classic things with very few details. So you’d think I’d have a pretty easy time shopping, but for some reason every store needs to add weird, trendy details to everything. All I wanted was a classic LBD, but all of the black dresses I found had patent leather belts, ruffles, sequins, etc. No luck.
We also saw “District 9″, which neither of us liked. He didn’t like it because he thought too hard about the plot, and I didn’t like it because I hate every movie I’ve ever seen that involves aliens (with the exception of “E.T.”).
Saturday we went to Crabtree to look at more dresses, and I finally found one! And I followed all of the rules from “What Not to Wear” when I picked it. It’s pretty!:

NOTE: That is not me.
I later wore it to my friend Savannah’s wedding, which was very beautiful even though there were dueling shotguns in the background during the entire ceremony. Scott and I both looked pretty foxy, but unfortunately there are no pictures of us (that I’m aware of). :(
Monday we went and saw some baseball with Britney and Bryan! I got some awesome tickets for us through work, and we got an EXCLUSIVE PASS into the MVP club, where we got a free hot dog and beer and an Evan Longoria figurine. Pretty exciting. We also watched baseball and ate sundaes in little baseball hats and I got Scott a happy birthday shout out on the video board, but it was only up there for about 5 seconds, so I didn’t get a picture. But it did happen and I was pretty pleased with myself.

Yesterday we got our wedding pictures in the mail!! They’re beautiful. We chose the perfect photographers and many thanks to Britney for the recommendation! I’ve put a few of them on Facebook, but there were 606 pictures total, so I’m going to try to put all of them on my Flickr account and I’ll post a link when they’re up.
Gah, I had so much fun! Can we have a wedding every week?