Special "spots"

[Anna_2250]

So I was just reading the blog of one of my friends, and she was talking about how they just celebrated their wedding anniversary.  To celebrate they went to the place where they had their first date, and that just happens to also be where he proposed to her.    How romantic, I thought, that would be so fun to do.  To go to that place every year and take pictures or at least every couple of years.  To remind yourself of how you first fell in love.  Awwww!

 Well, it's a good idea in theory, but I can't participate.  Why?  My first date with my husband was at my apartment in Kent.  We ate pizza and watched a movie and then I (trying to get rid of him) cried in his arms for an hour or so.  (It didn't work obviously, because he turned out to be a decent guy.) haha

Nor can we visit the spot where I was proposed to on bended knee.  Why? Because it was also on my couch in my apartment in Kent.  He had picked up the ring earlier in the day, and was so excited to ask me that he couldn't wait to take me to dinner as he had planned.  So there was sweaty in my workout clothes reading a Cosmo magazine, and my boyfriend went on bended knee in a pair of pajamas that said "Lizard Lounge" on them and had lizards drinking margaritas. haha  A funny memory, and an important moment, but we can never go revisit it. 

The closest we could come to that is to sit on that same couch which my sister now has in her living room.  That would be an awkward request.  "Hey sis, can we come hang out on your couch for our anniversary.  It was where Ryan proposed, so I thought it would be romantic."  I can see the strange look now.

So I guess we'll have to make new romantic spots to visit or at least be satisfied with dinner and a movie.  The romantic spots to revisit are out of our hands now.  Literally.

[SarahRevived]

Jun. 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM

I know what you mean.  On our first date, Trent never showed.  He worked nights at the time and forgot to set his alarm and was sleeping.  Haha....after much pleading and begging, he convinced me to meet him at Longhorn Steakhouse for a late dinner.  As for our engagement, we went "ring" shopping together and he bought the ring right then and there....I was a bit dumbfounded but didn't want to sound like a bitch and be all "what! you're not going to officially propose to me?!?!"  Later on, I fessed up and he felt bad.  Our wedding day was a similiar experience.

But in the end it didn't matter.  I live everyday with the man I love and want to be with.  He treats me like a princess everyday and no memory can replace that.

[Erinck]

Jun. 13, 2008 at 3:57 PM i understand. Jon Took me to a lot of places on our first date ( we were having so much fun together our first date started thrusday night after I got out of work and ended on Sunday morning only because we both had to work that day!) but we can't go to any of them on our anniversary because they are all in Massachusetts/New Hampshire. The park the he proposed to me at is also the one he took me to on our first date so that doesn't work either. we went to a few restaurants on our first date too but they are all east coast chains so it's frustrating. for our first anniversary this year we just celebrated at home, but when we went to see our families for christmas we took one night to ourselves and had my parents watch Cameron (it wasn't too far from our anniversary we got married exactly one week before Christmas eve.). Jon took me to the restaurant at the country club where we got married. So that was really special to me. Unfortunately, we can't afford to go back every Christmas. So we'll have to get creative.

[jacksons_mom106]

Aug. 15, 2008 at 12:40 PM

haha we cant go back to ours either.  we went on our first date at todds house.....that would be akward. haha and he proposed to me in MR Tux one day at work.  i totally know what you mean!!! haha