Early Birthday Surprise!

You all were so sweet to celebrate with me last week as I turned another year older! (And hopefully wiser. But I won't presume...)

I wanted to tell you today about my early surprise! Ryan wanted to take me out to dinner, and he knows I'm big on celebrating ON THE DAY, but he said he needed to take me the night before, because the place he wanted to take me wasn't open on Friday.

I have to tell you - that seemed weird to me! What place in the middle of the big city wouldn't be open on Friday??

He went on to say we needed to go after six, because they weren't open until then. 

Wait. They're not open on Fridays and they're not open UNTIL dinner on Thursday? Even weirder.

To be honest, on Thursday morning, we weren't sure this birthday dinner was going to happen at all. We're still flying solo at work, and the way the day was going, we weren't sure we should leave for the evening. I tried so hard NOT to get my hopes up, but I confess I would have been super disappointed if we couldn't have gone. 

We left about 5:30, and as we drove toward a very obscure corner of Fort Wayne, I couldn't keep my guesses in any longer. I asked if I'd ever been to eat at this place before, and he said yes. I was confident I'd never eaten anywhere near where we were going. I kept asking questions and trying to figure it out, and about two miles from our destination, I GUESSED IT!

A food truck!!

Some of you might remember back in 2017, when we did our alphabetical dates, our "T" date was here in Fort Wayne. We visited a tiny house showcase at Parkview field and went to a food truck festival just down the road. While there, we fell in love with a truck called "Who Cut the Cheese?" So Ryan looked up their schedule and found that they were going to be with some other food trucks at a location on the edge of town. 

It was the perfect night. Absolutely PERFECT. The weather was gorgeous, which is something we haven't been able to say much lately. Sunny, warm, not too windy...perfect. 

We arrived shortly after it started, so it wasn't full at all. (More people were rolling in about the time we left.) 

We decided to spit a "Three Little Pigs" sandwich, which is a grilled cheese with pulled pork, bacon, and black forest ham, and we got some cheese curds on the side! 

We found a little corner of the yard with no one around and had a picnic for two overlooking a sweet little pond and gazebo with a sunset happening right behind it. 

After we were done eating, we went over to Biggby Coffee and got a little treat for dessert:

It was a perfect evening, and I'm so glad we got to enjoy it! Thanks, Ryan, for the perfect dinner surprise!