5 Years! Le Grand, The 1UP, Silver Linings Playbook

J and I celebrated our annual Date Night as we usually do with Denver Restaurant Week. It is great timing as Denver Restaurant week falls right during the period of late February/early March when we met. This year was especially notable as February marked five years. :)

We chose Le Grand Bistro and Oyster Bar as our restaurant this year: wine, cocktails, oysters, buttery Bibb lettuce, French onion soup, mussels in a creamy white wine sauce, gnocchi with cranberries and pecans, a rich chocolate torte, and a tasty pear tart.

My GQ model. Handsome man.

After dinner we headed up to the ballpark neighborhood to check out The 1UP, an old school arcade with adult beverages. Ninja Turtles, X-Men, Frogger, PacMan, Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat. I actually lasted longer than J in Ninja Turtles but he was better in most everything else with the exception of an evenly matched Street Fighter game.

We headed back to the 16th Street Mall after The 1UP to see Silver Linings Playbook which we both thoroughly enjoyed. Typically, Oscar nominated movies and those of critical acclaim are not films we tend to find highly entertaining but this movie kept us engaged the whole way through and was also very heartfelt and funny.

Of course, spending an evening in downtown Denver is always exciting. :) We can't wait for the Rockies and baseball season to start, for the temperatures to climb a little, and to enjoy downtown even more. ♥

J on the 16th Street Mall.

J and I both at the mall. It was a cold and windy night!

A beautifully lit building at 15th and Curtis.

Dinner. :)

My decent run of Ninja Turtles.

J was the Frogger master.

We had left the house seven hours ago to start date night. Just finished watching Silver Linings Playbook. Home stretch!

A quiet and cold downtown.