As the others have said, yea...it was a bit dark as HappySnapper's re-work of the shot proves. In regards to having the shot printed at a drug store (or anywhere else for that matter), the thing to remember here is that not everyone uses the same color profiles and most processing equipment of that nature will always do "additional adjustments" to your images. Especially places like CVS, RiteAid, etc., are setup for people who just take their prints in "as is" either on a CD-ROM or often right off their memory card with little or no processing done to them what so ever and most of the time the prints come out "ok". These systems are designed for the mass public and not photographers who actually know what they're doing. Remember, for every person who owns a camera and knows how to process their own shots, there are hundreds and hundreds of people who simply have no clue what so ever and these are the people that most of these places cater too. However when you've already done adjustments to your images...well...it's kind of like making spaghetti sauce. If you've already added all the spices and the sauce tastes "perfect" and someone comes along and adds the spices all over again and things get over-saturated, the sauce just doesn't taste right!
Another thing to remember is that in most of these places, those adjustments are "automatic"...they're done by a machine using general parameters and such and in most cases, the technician never even looks at the images (and most of those technicians wouldn't know how to properly correct an image anyways). If you want to see the results of this, use a program such as Photoshop...manually adjust an image to where you think it's right and then reprocess a duplicate of the image with PS's "Auto adjustments" (auto levels, auto contrast, auto saturation, etc) and then compare the differences. In some cases the auto adjustments will look "ok" but in other cases, it will look drastically different from the work you did manually. I know it seems like a lot to digest, but if you are serious about your images looking their best, you will almost always get better results if you learn to do these adjustments yourself and again tell the lab "no extra adjustments".
I also wanted to address timrocks311's comments about Ritz. This same thing applies... When I first started doing prints, I too had gone to Ritz and got decent prints, but over the course of time they kept "upgrading" their kiosks and every time they did, my pictures got worse and worse (-and- the b@stards kept charging me for thier mistakes!). Basically what had happened was that every time they upgraded, they changed their color profiles...without telling anyone of course. A lot of people argue that you should use Adobe RGB for processing your pictures on your computer but in situations such as this, that's going to cause additional problems with your prints because many, if not most place don't use Adobe RGB. As such, I always use sRGB on everything from my camera to my monitor, Photoshop, printer and I -ONLY- have my prints done at places that use this color profile...that way what I see on the camera and my monitor is what I get back in my prints.
As others have said, it's also well worth learning how to read and understand your histogram. The human eyes can be fooled...if you are adjusting something like the brightness/exposure of an image and you are doing it in a brightly lit room versus a dimly lit room, your eyes could very well give you two different results. The histogram though never lies...as long as you understand how to read it 
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If you've gone thru the trouble of getting your monitor calibrated, it's worth asking the place that does your prints (where ever you choose to go) what profiles they use for printing...and make sure that everything is consistent thru your work flow. Also, if you are going to process your own shots, make sure you tell them...and tell them EVERY TIME to turn off the automatic processing.
Just my $.02 worth,
Jim
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