Double Date!

What should the Shaffers do when there's a crazy blowing snow/drifting snow advisory in the future?

HEAD TO INDY FOR A DATE!!!!

And that's just what we did this past Friday night. We had plans to meet up with our friends Mike and Angie for a double date to Fogo de Chao in Indianapolis.

So...I packed the car with a blanket, extra food and water, and my warmest coat, and we set out to pick up our friends. {This is the look of sheer terror in my face, by the way.}

 Fogo de Chao {if you are not familiar} is a Brazilian restaurant and is normally far, far, far out of our price range. But a couple of times a year, they participate in a thing called "Devour Downtown," which results in...crazy great specials! So that's how this date came about. Oh...and I should mention that we couldn't get a reservation until 9:00 p.m. - about an hour and a half from home. Sweet mercy.

So here's how this works:

They give you a little coaster that has two sides...red and green. When you want more food, you turn the green side up. When you are set {at least for the moment}, you turn the red side up.

And when I say "more food," I mean more meat. I'm a self-proclaimed meatatarian and have NEVER in my life seen this much meat in one place. The skewers of meat to end all skewers of meat are brought to your table and a piece shaved off onto your plate. {You pick the "doneness" of the meat and if that server doesn't have it, he finds the one that does.} And there are about a dozen kinds to choose from.

Yeah. You thought I was kidding. Look at that meat skewer up there!

Mike was in meat heaven!! {He is SO funny!!!}

And his lovely date, Angie:

Ryan was a pretty happy boy himself:

I promise I ate more than this:

The place was absolutely PACKED - and the servers were really good about getting around quickly to fill up our plates. My favorite piece of meat was the Parmesan pork. It was SO tasty.

And then...we had dessert. Key lime pie and coffee. My mouth waters even now, just thinking about it.

Love being out on the town with this guy:

And I have come to really enjoy spending time with these two:

We had a fun night - but MAN was I nervous for the drive home!

I ended up sleeping most of the way from Indianapolis to Kokomo because I was SO nervous about the white-outs. But then I helped navigate the rest of the way home - through THIS mess:

{That would be us driving through the opposite lane because ours was full of drifted snow.}

We got home at 1:30 in the morning and I was so relieved to be safe in our driveway!!