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Originally posted by charlene:
Hey Doug - how did the anniversary go?
what did you end up doing?
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Let me preface the story of our 30th with a little insight.
We both believed that our 30th anniversary was VERY important.
The problem was we had just spent $2000-$2500 celebrating her parents 50th anniversary back in Arkansas. Our Visa bill has never been so high so like it or not we were both on a strict budget.
My wife loves good CLEAN humor and I love to make her laugh, so I am always on the look out for that. I was listening to an internet radio staion with clean comedy and heard a guy
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http://www.tbubba.com)
I thought she would really enjoy. Knowing we would be doing some driving around that weekend, I went to the iTunes store and sure enough there was his album so I downloaded it and burned it to a disc to give to her.
I also enlisted the aid of my daughter who did some checking around. My wife is good friends with a gal who sells Mary Kay and has been wanting a selction of their products.
So Friday I got off early and as we were leaving for our first destination I gave her the CD. She put it in the player and before long was in stitches. I took her to an iMax movie about Greece (seems a bit weird but she really liked it) besides the theater is in Balboa Park with is full of museums and incredible architecture. The only bad part is that it had started raining.
After out theater adventure, we went out to dinner at The Black Angus Restaurant, we've been going there since we were married. We had an appetizer platter we couldn't finish, those delicious little bread loafs, salads, and our entree - Filet Mignon for 2. Dessert was their Big Mountain Chocolate Fudge Cake
After that the old fuddy duddies went home to spend time with our daughter and her beau.
Saturday morning we went to a new breakfast place she wanted to try in Pacific Beach called The Broken Yoke. The place was packed but it was only a 10 minute wait. Food was plentiful but the crowd, mostly young college or surfer types were so loud we could hardly hear each other. It was interesting.
We left there and stopped at Mission Bay. We took a walk (perhaps a mile and a half) around a portion of it. There were scull teams practicing their sweeping.
We did something Saturday night but for the life of me I can't remember what it was
Sunday morning (our actual 30th) we got up and went to church. It was my turn to led the singing. I had prepared well and afterward there were many comments about how good the singing was that day. We came home to a light lunch, I took my scriptural nap and then it was time for evening services.
That night I gave her a card and the Mary Kay collection. She was surprised and asked how we knew she had been wanting it. I told her I couldn't reveal my sources but that I had spies.
All in all everything went well. It would have been nice to leave home but we had a good time anyway.