For my anniversary gift to Hal, I did a little drawing of us and asked Kim of SugarSkull7 to hand-carve it into a rubber stamp. I went off a photo we took this past NYE. I wanted to carve it myself, but I probably would have made us look deformed. So I decided to leave the carving to an expert ...and an expert job she did, right? It looks pretty darn close to my original sketch. Do you think it looks like us?
The rest of our anniversary date was lovely. Hal took me to a romantic little family-owned Italian restaurant, La Rustica, which sits right across from the moonlit water. I ordered tagliatelle ai funghi pasta with porcini mushrooms, peas, gorgonzola, and sun-dried tomatoes. We toasted to our very first date 8 years ago...
Him: You know that it was 7 years ago, right?
Me: No, it was 8!
Him: I was 29 (counts on fingers), so that means it's been 7 years.
Me: Well, I was 23 (counts on fingers), so that means it's been 8 years.
Him: Your math is wrong.
Me: Your math is wrong.
Him: And the 25th was the day we met.
Me: No, the 25th was our first date!
We went around in circles for quite some time and never fully came to an agreement. But that's okay. I guess when you love someone this long, the details don't really matter so much anymore!
{Top image by SugarSkulls7}
