:: Celebrating in style ::
This weekend marked Christene's and my one-year anniversary. Technically, it's not an exact date - if you wanted to get technical, it might be New Year's Eve - but we figured that, in order to distance the occasion from the holidays, whatever weekend is closest to Jan. 7 would be our weekend.
We decided early that we'd go out for a nice dinner - we decided on The Keg because we're predictable (and it's delicious) - and then we also decided we should do something "fun" earlier in the day. Trouble was, we didn't think up anything ahead of time, so on Saturday morning (after a healthy sleep-in by yours truly) we tried to come up with something. In typical fashion, it was Christene who came up with all the ideas:
Science World, IMAX, Capilano Suspension Bridge, some museum in Burnaby that she inexplicably likes, the States, etc....
And in typical fashion, I pretty much shot every idea down. Not because I'm a jerk, but because anything that involves going downtown immediately gets a strike against it. I just don't like going into Vancouver. I guess I'm lazy. Eventually, I got on board for the States, but once we had breakfast/lunch, we quickly realized this was not feasible - there simply wasn't enough time in the day. I guess we should've thought it up the night before, and left earlier in the morning.
In the end, after returning from breakfast, we tried our best to salvage the day, but still, could not agree on anything to do. So what did we do, you might ask? Well, we took a "nap" which was then followed by, well, an actual nap.
For more than three hours.
We woke up just before 4 o'clock. And the thing was, we weren't really that upset about our "wasted day." It occured to us, as a matter of fact, that this is just who we are:
People who make grand plans for their big day, and then end up doing absolutely nothing, yet still are perfectly content. Better than content, actually.
Eventually, we got our act together and went for dinner, and this is when our day hit another snag: The Keg had a two hour waiting list. And that was just for the bar! (Or so we overheard somebody say).
So now our day was really shot (no surprise) , but again, we salvaged it by going to our favourite Greek place, Galini, which turned out to be fitting actually, because it's where we actually went for dinner last year, right before the New Year's Eve party at Brett and Tara's. We followed that will some Marble Slab and a quick jaunt to the casino, before retiring for the evening at about 10 oclock. Christene went to bed (she had started not to feel well earlier in the day) and I stayed up to watch the Canucks/Flames game that I had PVRed.
So all in all, 'twas a fantastic day. Just not exactly the one we'd planned. But then again, we didn't really "plan" anything at all. So if there's anything I've taken from this experience, it's this:
Even if you fail to plan ahead for your one-year anniversary, don't make reservations anywhere, and for no real reason fall asleep for hours upon hours right smack in the middle of the day, you will still get laid and get a good meal.
Take notes, fellas.
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