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If I were on twitter, I would have had to post something last night about wearing a $95 hotel bathrobe. For about the last two months, I’d been planning a surprise night out for Ryan, and yesterday was the night. We went to a schmancy restaurant in the Pearl District (I had pear and dandelion salad and gnocchi with this scrumptious mushroom sauce), and then, Ryan being Ryan and us being downtown, he wanted to go to Ground Kontrol, so we did, and he killed some aliens and then we watched the Rock Band tournament for a bit. Then, the crowning jewel of the whole enterprise was staying at The Nines, which is this fancy hotel near Pioneer Courthouse Square. We ordered ice cream from room service, because we never had before. I’d also never slept in a king size bed before, that thing was wider than it was long! What was really funny though was the room had all this stuff in it, like the bathrobe, and an umbrella with the hotel’s name on it, which I thought it was really cool of them to have all this stuff for you to use, until I was thumbing through the hotel directory looking for the room service menu, and I saw the price list for all the different items in the room. You could even keep the towels! (If you wanted to pay $40 for them, that is.) Fancy hotels are funny. I wish we could go do that again sometime soon, but I booked it through a promotion where if you did 8 hours of volunteer service for a registered non-profit organization you could get a free night’s stay, and you can only do that once. It was so much fun though.