So clearly Anthony and I have been using this blog to it's fullest potential, by stating that we are getting married, when we have now been married for 2 months and a day. Wow, time flies when you are having fun ;) So to help this blog along, we have decided to blog about a challenge that we recently accepted.
Our friends Julie and Jason in their first year of marriage set out on the wonderful journey of dating one another, with a goal of 52 dates in 52 weeks and documenting said dates with pictures. Well they got, I believe, 6 dates in and it all came to an end. Now approximately a year later with baby in hand they have challenged Anthony and I to finish what they couldn't and have very little time for, with their very precious Emil, now vying for their constant attention. So we accepted, what could be better than dating your new spouse for the first year of your marriage?!
With that in mind I decided that each week we would switch up who decided on what we did for our date that week. For our first date I stepped it up and made a date day that I knew Anthony would enjoy! (however I will let you know there were 2 other date ideas that I had first before I settled on our actual date, but the other ones fell through due to funds. But I am not telling you what the ideas were as I might try to attempt them again in the next 51 weeks!)
Since I know that Anthony doesn't like surprises, I put our date day on our calendar and told him the date was a secret surprise and he would find out what is happening as it happens. Well the stinker took it as a challenge to figure out what we were doing and of course stole my thunder and fun the night before by guessing that we were going to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival :( However we still had fun. We got there about 11am, after google maps took us the wrong way, just in time to see the first Danger Committee act, "Blunt Trauma". The DC as always was hilarious and we enjoyed the show. Then we moved onto MooNie (aka Philip Earl Johnson) juggler, rope walker, foolish mortal. Which I must admit was such an AWESOME show, just because of the sad audience volunteer that he had. He normally does a non-speaking show, in which he whistles, hums, and uses physical gestures to capture the audiences attention. However, with the special nature of the volunteer that day he had to speak for most of it (to help the volunteer learn to skip, along with various other menial tasks). And to this I decided he could be quite a funny stand-up comedian. Anyways, with our rib cages now hurting we went in search of food until the next Danger Committee show started. Of course we made a pit stop at the "Chess" tent so that Anthony could pay $5 to play a "chess GOD" in the hopes of winning a Shrek chess set or $25 dollars. Anthony lost of course, but was happy to have made the "chess God" pause a few times ;)
We sat down for the next Danger Committee show "Flaming Death" and ended up seeing an old co-worker and friend of Anthony's. We sat with him and his wife and watched the show. We chatted with them afterwards for a while and then decided to head onto our next activity, which I was determined to not let Anthony figure out!
However, that battle was lost quickly as he played 20 questions with me about where we were going next. But I would not let him tell me where he thought we were going so I was at least still happy in my little illusion that I was actually surprising him. I told he he got to choose dinner, so of course we went to McDonald's...and from there I made him close his eyes until we got to the destination of choice. I pulled into the "cell phone" parking lot off of post road and parked where we could then watch the plans land and take off. I told him to open his eyes and his look of glee and satisfaction told me he had guessed right in his mind. We then sat at in that parking lot for about an hour and a half and listened to the ground control usher planes on and off of the tarmac. (Anthony downloaded the radio waive on his phone so that is how we got to listen to it).
Overall it was a wonderful kick off to our 52 dates and I am excited to see what Anthony has in-store for me this evening.
PS- Sorry there are no pictures I will get some on our next date!
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