Best Cheap Date

An Evening on Congress Avenue

We love to watch movies at the Paramount, where you can drink wine and eat M&M's while you sniffle. This time we resist, however, so that afterward we can stroll over to Little City and order a decaf cappuccino and a Frangelica cupcake, a more subtle mix of sedative and stimulant. We make a trip to the ladies' room, trying to figure out how to tame the clutter at home into smooth lines of beautiful objects and, truly, this has been achieved in their ladies' room. Then we walk up the Avenue arm-in-arm, stopping to look in the windows, recalling what used to be here or there, then up to the Capitol to see how construction is going, where we kiss, then wander back to the car.