{"id":48,"date":"2015-04-07T01:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T01:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-04-07T01:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T01:46:41","slug":"date-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Date Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Sara is down under with me, I figured I should take her out on a proper date! Imagine my surprise when I saw that the Palais Theatre in St Kilda was bringing none other than the Counting Crows to town on her third night here.\u00a0 Shockingly it wasn’t sold out, so I scooped up some tickets a few days before the show and started listening to all the Counting Crows albums I have so I could be ready.\u00a0 August and Everything After really brings back those Acalanes high school memories, while Recovering the Satellites came out during my UVA years.<\/p>\n

\"Elevator<\/a>
Elevator ussie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After tailgating a bit at home, we got all dolled up and headed out to dinner.\u00a0 Sadly, I did not bring a (LEGAL) “to-go” beer with me for the short walk, as I was trying to keep it classy for once.\u00a0 After walking into the wrong restaurant first, we went to a small middle-eastern restaurant called 40 Thieves & Co – and it was quite good.\u00a0 We split a few plates and a bottle of Australian wine.\u00a0 Not only are we getting a solid discount on our spending with the *very* favorable USD\/AUD exchange rate right now, it is always a nice surprise to get a restaurant bill and realize that’s the total – no adding sales tax and tip.\u00a0 Apparently people here only tip for super exceptional service – and then only about 10% or so.\u00a0 I believe minimum wage here is about $22\/hour.<\/p>\n

\"Concert<\/a>
Concert ussie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So we head over to the theatre and Sara is quite excited to see that Bobby Brown and Naughty by Nature will be there in late May.\u00a0\u00a0 We are then alarmed to see a long line of people waiting to buy concert souvenirs.\u00a0 We bought some beers and proceeded to people watch until the concert started.\u00a0 We spotted a nice mullet (sorry no photo) and quite a bit of folks wearing Counting Crows t-shirts from previous Australia tours.<\/p>\n

The concert was entertaining, though sadly they did not play Mr. Jones.\u00a0 The Australian crowd was pretty tame and remained seated the entire time.<\/p>\n

Afterwards we headed out into the St Kilda night to see the “Blood Moon” – a total lunar eclipse that turned the moon red.\u00a0 Quite a sight.\u00a0 After treating my beautiful date to her favorite dessert of a McDonald’s ice cream cone, we headed home before we turned into pumpkins.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Palais<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The shockingly long line for $45 t-shirts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Sara is down under with me, I figured I should take her out on a proper date! Imagine my surprise when I saw that the Palais Theatre in St Kilda was bringing none other than the Counting Crows to town on her third night here.\u00a0 Shockingly it wasn’t sold out, so I scooped … Continue reading Date Night<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}