Anniversary Weekend Fun

It's anniversary time once again! 

 

 

Technically, our anniversary is today, but we celebrated it over the weekend. I still have three days of school left before break, and I need to be alert and ready for anything. Anyone who is or has been a teacher at this time of the year knows what I'm talking about. 

 

When Dan and I got married eighteen years ago, the minister told us to be prepared to never celebrate our anniversary on the actual day, especially since we were getting married so close to Christmas. (And being a musician/music teacher at this time of the year compounds the craziness of the season tenfold.) 

Fun fact: The minister married us on his anniversary. He was speaking from experience.

This year, Dan and I, both of us fully vaccinated and boosted, actually went out for our anniversary. 

 

Here are some of our anniversary weekend highlights.

 

We ate at our favorite downtown restaurant, the same one Dan took me to the night he proposed, and ordered our special dessert. It has been our dessert tradition for eighteen years now.

 

We walked downtown and took our obligatory anniversary photo in front of the tree on the Grove. (We probably have eighteen of these.) There was a hockey game at the arena, but I think we blocked out most of the people standing in line.

Then we saw All Is Calm, a theater production about the Christmas Truce of 1914 during World War I. It was a beautiful joint venture between our local opera and one of the professional theater companies.

 

The theater looks empty, but we were early. It was a packed house.

 

We ended the night with a drive through a couple of neighborhoods. We looked at Christmas lights while listening to a "Best Indie Alternative Rock Christmas" playlist on Spotify. 

 

We're still Gen-Xers after all.

 

 

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