Date night...

Last night, we spent the afternoon/evening with the Irelands sans kids. After some overwhelming tile shopping for our upcoming bathroom project, we had a nice dinner at a new restaurant. Not newly built, but new to us, the Orange Hill Restaurant did not disappoint. Since getting to go out to dinner without kids is so rare, I tend to want to hit up the favorites when we get a chance but that can become a bit monotonous. So, we've decided that from now on when we do go out we are going to go somewhere new each time.
The Orange Hill Restaurant offers a great view and an even better sunset special. We spent the evening in sunglasses because we are just super cool...and the sun was quite glaring...but the food was really good. I highly recommend the pre-dinner bread and pesto. So yummy!! After dinner we sat out on the balcony around the fire pit to watch part of the sunset. Even in the haze we could make out Signal Hill, Palos Verdes, and even had a partial ocean view.

A little dark but check out the view.

Out by one of the many fire pits.

Of course, even being without the kids there are constant reminders of them. A child's birthday party was going on in the restaurant and we were able to snag Tinkerbell on her way in to make an appearance.