Dark Restaurant

Today, it was my husband's birthday. I decided to surprise him by taking him to the Dark Restaurant, which technically was a gift for myself, since I really wanted to go to that place.

This was something I was dreaming about since the very first time I've heard that there is a place where they give you delicious food but you cannot see anything. You just have to use all of your other senses. The darkness is complete. There is no source of light of any kind: no windows, no candles, no phones, not even watches. The waiter has a night vision device and he’s the only person that can see the dining room. Everybody else has to use their hands to touch the chair, the table, the plate – and food (a fork is not a good idea :)), and they have to use their sense of  taste and smell to recognize the meal’s ingredients.

That was exactly what I expected. There were four of us and everyone had a three course meal and each of us had a different meal. It wasn’t obvious to guess what we were eating but we did it! For me the hardest thing to guess was spinach – they’ve prepared it in a way I didn’t know. My first thought was that it was cabbage and untill the very end I didn’t know what  it was. However, I was able to guess all the rest: crab sticks on salad, sole with funny cinnamon-rice cakes, lemon tart with pudding and ice-cream. Our friends did quite well, too. Though, my husband had a real surprise on his plate, a special set called Bizarre Food. As you can imagine, on his plate there was every strange edible ingredient you can think of. Riki likes new tastes and he loves to be surprised so he took the risk. “I just hope they will not give me bull’s testicles” –he said. 
 Well, they didn’t. Actually, it was bull’s penis plus some exotic worms. Although we were making fun of him (a lot of not really elegant jokes…), he really enjoyed his birthday.

It's probably because he also got a great bike jacket and a bottle of vodka :)

But seriously, even if it sounds awfull, it wasn't. It was a great, uncommon evening.

Tough topic

-Why are you so sad, honey?

-Oh mummy, I'm sad 'cause you and daddy will die, and it makes me feel so awful... I'm gonna cry, that's SO sad. I really like you, I don't want you to be dead.

-Well, NOW I'm alive, don't think about that.

-Yeah, but you do will die. Everybody dies, did you know that?

-I know but I'm not planning to die yet.

-Oh, so you don't know that dying is not something you can plan? Zuzka's grandma didn't plan it, neither. And what? Now she is dead, she's gone! 

What's risky

What's risky when you have a child (or two, like I have my two girls):

- take a nap without making sure that they are asleep too: Aurelia (6 years old) may get a brilliant idea to prepare some pancakes for your breakfast by mixing flour, baking soda, sugar, salt, nutella, jelly, milk and ketchup in one bowl. If you don't want to risk her disappointment, you'll have to fry it and, worse, try it (actually it wasn't THAT bad);

- keep playing Plants vs Zombies when it's quiet at home; actually every silence at home is very dangerous, Bimbosia (2 years old) is probably eating your lipstick or hamster's food;

- leave Bimbosia with a bowl of coleslaw, she will probably put it in the pot of chicken soup (taste at least strange..);

 - tell Aurelia that you would like to lose weight; a few weeks later she may tell you that your diet doesn’t really work. “you’re not getting slim, mummy, you still fit in the same jeans, don’t you?”;

 - invite Aurelia to do 1000 pieces puzzles with you. There is a risk that she’s better than you (really painful, if you love puzzles and you thought that youe are a master of it);

 - hug your husband. You may hear “Stop doing this, otherwise you’ll make more children”. 

Welcome to my crazy world :)