02.21.09 Lunch at Ruby Tuesday and Dinner at Machineshed

Woke up around 1pm and got ready to go on our Valentine's weekend as we had planned since I worked last weekend. 

Loaded up everything in the truck and headed to Ruby Tuesday for lunch.

Arrived at 2pm and were promptly seated. We had a wonderful B1G1 Free coupon so I ordered the Steak and Shrimp Scampi with Broccoli, Mashed Cauliflower and Salad Bar. And Dave got the 8oz Ribeye with Broccoli, Brown Rice and Salad Bar.

My Salad

My Entree

Cottage Cheese for dessert

Dave

Me

We left the restaurant around 3pm and headed to the hotel to check-in but unfortunately on the way the driver's side front tire blew out on our exit's ramp only a few blocks away from the hotel:( 

A generous onlooker stopped to help us but the police told us we had to drive the truck around the turn and onto the shoulder on the bridge which was even more dangerous. Dave respectfully disagreed and complied and the officer was nice enough to call the highway helper for us.

We waited about an hour for him to show up and once he arrived he was quick and did a great job for us. We were so grateful and tipped him. Checked into our hotel about 4:30pm and were so thrilled to make it.

Lovely room! Comfy king sized bed, 4x6 whirpool tub, huge bathroom with a large walk-in shower, massive desk, decent sized TV and a minifridge/microwave combo with a gorgeous plate of strawberries and chocolate in there for us!

The happy couple

After we checked out our hotel room we brought our things in and put them away and headed back home for the DVD player we had forgotten and a few other things. Stopped in Borders and used my 40% off coupon to buy Gordon Ramsay's new book - Healthy Appetite! Went to Cub next door and bought some fat free ReddiWip to go with those strawberries and sugar free angel food cake we brought with. A six pack of NSA Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches. Got a small pack of Diet Coke and a pack of Diet Orange Cream Soda. Also bought some Light Babybel Cheeses and Kozy Snack NSA Cherry Jubilee Pudding. Picked up some Whole Grain Thomas English Muffins since they were B1G1.

Got back to the hotel around 7:15pm in time to put the groceries away and head to dinner for our 7:30pm reservation.

The appetizer we ordered was Stuffed, Breaded Mushrooms with Hidden Valley Ranch dipping sauce.

My portion

Also ordered us two cups of Chili. We each cut a piece of rye bread in half and ate it with our Chili.

The rest of the included appetizers...we divvied up the Coleslaw, Cottage Cheese, Rye Bread and Moist Spice Cake!

My entree - Marinated Chicken Breast with Sweet Potato Fries.

Dave's entree - Prime Rib with Au Jus and Sweet Potato Fries.

Veggies was baby carrots and we split them.

Us enjoying our meal!