Our 25 Anniversary: The Romantical Version

You know that our actual anniversary was a bust, celebration-wise; Saturday was our do-over.

We started our day with family fun at the dog park--Mr. Fix-it, Social Butterfly and I went to the first-Saturday-of-the-month Beagle Brigade and enjoyed all the doggie antics. Unfortunately, Mr. Fix-it got a bit cranky after the accompanying Costco run because he had not yet had anything but coffee at 11:30 a.m. This is a bit of a recurring theme with him, so I had to share with SB the story of the time he had a bit of a hunger-induced meltdown at IKEA which ended with me throwing a banana at him in the parking lot. He was decidedly not amused with my story, but I'm pretty sure that was just the hunger talking.

When we got home MFI ate, we did a few chores, watched Team USA lose to the Serbian team, Mr. Fix-it went for a run and around 4:15 we began our night out (yes, we realize that we prematurely have the schedule of retirees, but it works for us). The movie we saw was Savages and it was stunning. Terribly violent, but brilliantly acted with a compelling story line and inspired cinematography. It was worth fighting the parking lot and remodeling which meant access to the movie theater was by elevator--very small, crowded elevator.

On the way to the movie, I told my husband that I appreciated that he'd been making me laugh for so many years. He responded that he wasn't prepared to have a "moment" so early in the evening and would need a little time to formulate a response beyond "ditto." I told him that was fine, but he'd better come up with something fairly soon or else instead of nice night we'd end up in a huge fight.

Just before the lights went down in the movie theatre, he took my hand and said, "You are the love of my life . . . you are the wind beneath my wings . . . you complete me . . . you had me at hello." Again, with the making me laugh!

After the movie we went to dinner at what used to be our favorite Mexican place--the one we used to go to closed, but their sister restaurant is still open. Once we got there we realized we used to go there a lot because it was good place to take kids and we don't really need that kind of place anymore, so it was a little loud, but they did still have amazing hot tortilla chips and Ballast Point Big Eye IPA, so we survived.

Knowing how much I love to laugh, MFI kept me in stitches throughout dinner. I think my favorite line of the evening is when he said that it is certain that any time one of our children sees an injustice being perpetrated they know that help is only a phone call away-- calling 1-800-MY-MOM will take care of it.

Dinner was followed by a drive to Mt. Soledad, which was the site of our first-ever kiss and also very close to the Catholic church where we were married. I think it could be described as ironic that the site of a controversial cross features prominently in the geography of my personal narrative.

 

Mt. Soledad at night--photo swiped from Wikipedia

Traffic getting there was pretty much a total nightmare--one would think that google would have some info about why virtually the only intersection leading to downtown La Jolla was completely blocked by several police cars and emergency response vehicles, but one would be wrong. I have personally found randomly honking to be of no value in such a situation but some a**hole in a BMW did not agree with me. Oh, well. Nothing was going to harsh my mellow.

Once we finally got to the top of the mountain, we found a parking place, took a stroll, reminisced, did a little smooching and then remembered that we are now grownups who own their own home, so unlike when we were teenagers we actually did have someplace more private to go! So we did.

The end.

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Jessie - a different one]

Happy romantic Anniversary! May you have many, many more!

[Smalltown Me]

Congratulations on a great celebration!

[lanes]

Glad 25th anniversary celebration 2.0 was much more enjoyable!

[Karen (formerly kcinnova)]

Ah, the changing of the favorite restaurant!
Glad you had a much more enjoyable day/evening (my sympathies to MFI on the hunger melt-downs -- I get those, too).
Good thing you didn't have the police knocking on your window at the favored smooching place. ;)

[mom taxi julie]

My husband has taken me up to the "top of the world" make out spot but since there is only room for one car we just drive by every time. So romantic ;)

[Jenrantsraves]

This cracked me up! You're pretty funny yourself. I'm so glad you two were able to have a romantic day.

[The Zadge]

Happy Anniversary! Quite impressive in this day and age!

[Busy Bee Suz]

Your day/night sounds just perfect to me too!
I love how you both laugh so much....that makes me happy.
It also makes me so happy to know I am not the only one who has hunger induced melt-downs. I'll be sure to share that with the Coach.
xo

[auntjone]

Sounds like my kind of evening! Here's to 25 more years of wedded bliss...and 25 more years after that!

I, too, have hunger-induced meltdowns so Mr. Fix-It is a kindred spirit!

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