anniversary dinner - delayed by pandemic

 For a few years we have been celebrating our wedding anniversary with dinner at our favorite steak house.

Lonnie has a system where he takes advantage of earning a bonus gift card for there at Christmas time, when he buys gift cards for his sons.  He buys a gift card for us too - thus increasing the size of the bonus gift card and we are all set for our anniversary - at the end of April.

But it's 2020, and we were in virus lockdown when our anniversary rolled around. 

Even now, as most things are gradually opening up, we've been out to eat only once.  But we started dreaming of a juicy steak and a nice evening out so we decided to go ahead and have that belated anniversary dinner.

Ruth's Chris is at the top of the Kaden Tower.  I can just barely remember this building going up when I was a child.   

Like me, it's showing it's age.  Or maybe the virus makes everything seem a little drearier.

We always take the elevator that goes up the outside of the building.  I like the views but it looks like Lonnie is just counting the minutes until he gets that steak in front of him!

Sort of different than our past experiences here.  The menu is scaled down and laminated. Nothing extra on the table...and of course everyone wearing masks (we removed ours when our drinks arrived).

But overall we enjoyed it. The steaks were as good as always and we each had a bit left to bring home to enjoy the next day.

It was nice to go somewhere besides the food and hardware stores too.