i love my husband. you probably already know that. i love that he makes me coffee. i love that he gets up to take max out when he whines before dawn. and i love that he takes me on dates. we're married, and he still takes me on dates. and for christmas this year, he gave a "christmas date." it is a tradition he started last year (though i think he forgot that when my card this year said '1st annual christmas date') when for christmas he got me tickets to tour the biltmore estate, simply breathtaking at christmas! and so this year he planned and organized a night in the big city for us as our 2nd annual christmas date, a tradition i hope will continue the week after christmas for years to come.
i got a text message at 5:00 telling me my ride was waiting for me outside our apartment building. i spent the next hour and a half being chauffered into the city where jarred was waiting since he had to go earlier to get some stuff done. with my ipod blasting country music (no other genre brings back as many memories of family and friends) as i sat in the backseat reading, i might as well have been in a stretch limousine instead of the old, dirty, about-to-fall-apart bread van i was in.
once in the city, jarred took me to my favorite chinese restaurant. it is awesome! and after spending the next hour eating and talking, we went a couple doors down to get a cup of chai from an indian restaurant. i think that getting him in the door of that restaurant may be the closest i will ever get to getting him back to india. i didn't like india all that much either (though i didn't hate it quite as much as he did), but i did love their tea.
and he capped off the night with a couple's massage at this super nice new place, definitely one of the perks of living in asia where they are much cheaper. it was a great night just getting away with each other after a crazy busy month.
and as we rode home, we drove for over 45 minutes before we ever got out of the skyscrapers decked out with flashing neon lights, and it was like we were driving out of new york city. we loved our jaunt into the city, but were thankful to head back out to the suburbs/farmland.
thanks jarred for a great christmas date! tim and jane, you raised a great son.
