So this weekend was the first night of our Baltimore Hippodrome theater subscription. Nicole picked out a restaurant called ‘Pazo’ for our preshow dinner. It’s a tapas restaurant down in fells point. In our effort to make sure we didn’t miss our show time we had an early reservation at 5:30 with the early birds 
. Pazo’s is in a converted warehouse but the atmosphere was very intimate and very hip. You could definitely see that it was a place that is very busy on a saturday night and would be perfect to come with a group for food before a night out on the town. Nicole thought the big table they had on one side of the restaurant looked like something out of sex in the city.
The food was very good and we particularly liked the scallops and empanada dishes. The scallops were perfectly cooked which is so hard to do and easy to turn into rubber. Although the food was great the service there was really what set the place apart. The workers there were definitely a team and worked together well keeping our water topped off and removing plates as we emptied them. We had multiple people besides our waiter asking us if we needed anything and how things were. I’m not sure if that was an artifact of being there so early at first when the restaurant wasn’t full yet.
Although we should have had tons of time to make it to the hippodrome we lingered over dinner so long that we ended up arriving at the theater with only 15 min till show time. We were kinda surprised how many empty seats were left in the theater. The show was Legally Blonde which I guess was based off of the movie. The show ended up being a lot of fun. It might not have been the most complex or though provoking but it was very enjoyable. We both got a good laugh out of the show and enjoyed the singing and dancing. The first half of the show was better than the second half but overall I thought the actors did a good job. Of course the show stealers were the two dogs they had that were part of the cast. They did a good job using them in the show and were a hit with the audience.
The only sour note of the whole night was on our trip home when I95 was closed and we got stuck trying to get home.
