I have to say, I absolutely love having my mom live in the same state as us. I HATE asking anyone to watch the kiddos, but I know she loves doing it so every once in a while I'll find an excuse. Well a while ago I saw Nate Bargatze was coming to Utah and he's my favorite comedian. Now, we've done several comedy shows and more often than not they are just so-so (some laughs, but overall I'm not sure they are my preferred type of outing), but I've seen several of his specials and follow him on Netflix and I felt this was a very safe bet for a date night. I checked with Mom to see if she would be okay watching the kids, she said yes, and I got the tickets.
The plan for the night was that since the show started at 3, I figured it would end around 4 and then we could head over to Brio (at City Creek) for dinner around 4:30 and then come home. I had been wanting to go to Brio so I figured this would be the best opportunity. Since it was a Saturday night I figured 4:30 would help us avoid the crazy dinner crowd so we wouldn't be out too late.
Unfortunately, even though we left pretty early to avoid a stressful rush, there was still a stressful rush. We parked over by the restaurant and then it took us until 2:50 to get to the venue and it took until 3:15 to FINALLY find our seats (we were in section 10, row q, but section 10 seemed to only have numbered rows so we were running upstairs, which only had a section 110, not 10. We ran back downstairs to section 10 where we found out that letters are closer to the front...turns out we were in the 3rd row. I didn't realize I got tickets so close).
The show, itself, didn't start until 3:30 and he had THREE openers PLUS a host that came out between each opener. They were all really funny so that was a plus, but Nate himself didn't come on until 4:30 (so much later than I planned, but at least we didn't miss anything). He was really funny, had lots of good stuff (but his closing bit wasn't as funny as it could've been). His set ended about 5:30 so we rushed out and headed over to Brio. Unfortunately, they were only serving reservation, no walk ins were allowed (and they didn't have any reservations available). It took us until 6:30 to get to the car and get out of the parking garage (so A LOT of time spent just leaving).
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Since it took so long, we decided to head home and hit up something closer to home that would be a bit faster so we hit up Red 8 (our favorite, but the kids make such a mess out of it). I was SO hungry by this point and all the food was so great. We ate what we could and took the rest home for leftover and didn't get home until 8. The kids were still up having so much fun with their Nana, but they were so happy to see us.
Overall, it was a good night out. I wish dinner would've worked out, but Red 8 was SO delicious, I'm not mad that's where we ended up. Plus, one of the openers had such a funny joke about being a house painter and painting the wrong house that I'm still laughing about, so that's always a sign of a nice night. I'm glad we get to have these once in a while!
