Oh! Chocolate

Valentines '10 I gave Colby a gift certificate for a chocolate class at Oh! Chocolate in Bellevue as I thought it would be a fun date night.  Well, 1 year later and 1 day before the certificate expired we finally made it to  class :)  I must say it was well worth it!  The founder's great-grandsons taught the class and were highly entertaining!  Here is a look at our plates when we arrived:



This was just a tasting plate so we could learn about chocolate and discuss the different characteristics tasted with each one.  Plus we were given sipping chocolate when we arrived. 

Before we got knee deep in chocolaty goodness!

Whoops my bad!  I was dirty before we even began tempering the chocolate!

We were given dark and milk chocolate in HUGE cups to learn to temper.  We didn't get any more pictures beyond this as I think I had chocolate up to my elbows by the time we were done!  We given endless supplies of pretzels, chips, strawberries, blackberries, oreos, graham crackers, and biscotti.  Colby was one of only two men in the class but he held his own quite well!  I would highly recommend this class for a fun date.  Plus you get to take a ton of chocolate home!!

Iron chef

Colby and I were able to sneak away for a few hours of Christmas shopping and a nice dinner out.  The Mizu Japanese Steakhouse is nestled in the Home Depot parking lot not too far from our house.  Since we were out and about we figured it was the perfect night to give the restaurant a try.



Looking at the table next to us as we waited for our Chef.

 

As our vegetables were cooking the chef made a little volcano out of a stack of onions.  The flame was high and hot both of us were glad it was towards the other end of the table to be honest!

The Chef grabbed a little statue of a golf guy who then peed on the fire until it went out.  Seriously, it was hilarious! I am not sure if the other people at our table found it as funny as we did.   

At the end of dinner he brought out flame sticks and proceeded to put on a little show.  It was such a fun dinner!  Colby was the only guy at our table to actually catch the shrimp in his mouth!  None of us women would try.  Lame I know but in my defense the shrimp looked extremely hot as it had been cooking for a while!

Friday night lights

Date night = High school football game... Yip, it was a perfect night!

Our good friend Brian is the head coach for Sammamish High School. 

Plus Tanner is the punt holder retriever :)

Wait for it....

Go Tanner, go!

After the game, we got to go down the field and see Brian.

Brian and Holly after the game.  Colby and I both forgot how much fun high school football is!  Next year we plan to attend a few more games!!