March 5, 2013

• Our second first date.

  February 1994. {Yikes that sounds like a long time ago.}
  The snow was falling very heavy that night and my parents almost didn’t let me go.

  He was late. He said I gave him bad directions to my house,
  I say he was just late…I only lived a few blocks away! 
  He drove his mom’s car, it was red. He opened the door for me. He still does.
  I was impressed and told all my friends about it Monday at school.

  He wore an American flag sweater from Structure…yeah, remember that store?
  If not then you’re too young to be reading this blog.

  We ate at The Olive Garden. I ordered ravioli, he ate…I don’t remember! Ha!
  After dinner we went ice skating. It was his first time. It was my millionth.

  

  
  Last Friday night, 19 years later Jeff surprised me and recreated our very first date!
  Complete with driving past both of our old houses, which we now live an hour away from.

  We went back to the same restaurant and then went skating.
  It was so much fun to pretend to be on our first date all over again…
  (until later when he let me know that indeed we are married.

  A couple things we learned.
  1.Sometime between 1994 and now, Olive Garden stopped serving bread sticks and salad for free.
  2.We’re terrible ice skaters, I mean really terrible. 
  3.We never save room for dessert.

  After nineteen years of knowing each other, we are more in love than ever.
  I’m so glad God placed this man in my life, what a gift he is.

  So that was our first date. 
  Where did you go on your first date? How long ago was it?

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