TWELVE YEARS

I traveled a little for work last week so I didn't have time to update and really since I wasn't home, I didn't have much to update. 20 years from now, noone will care what I did on a work trip in Dallas right? BORING! To me it was peaceful. Some people make that face when I say I'm going out of town for work. They overlook the smile on my face when I say it. You see I don't go out of town that often so when I do, I really enjoy the peaceful drive to wherever....the time alone in a comfy hotel doing whatever....the meals with other great people that I work with...it's all nice. My trips are short and far between so it makes my time away sort of refreshing.

So this past week I got home on Thursday and Friday at lunchtime Wes and I left for a little weekend R&R in honor of our 12 year anniversary. We stayed at a Bed & Breakfast in Kyle, Texas called The Inn Above Onion Creek. Great place, mainly because it's located by so many different things and fun things to do. The accomodations were great. We had a great little cabin, away from the main Inn, which was intentional. The land was beautiful, the big back porch was awesome with the wildlife all around, and the cottage was very nice with a really comfy bed with the softest sheets I'd ever experienced. We arrived right at dinner time on Friday night and I really wasn't looking forward to it. It was worse than I anticipated. I don't have any desire to sit with a table of 8 other people and talk about their lives. I know I'm a scrooge and many people can't believe that about my personallity but I'm just not like that. So we sat through an hour long dinner with 8 other people and then never saw them again...on purpose. There were 4 other tables and Wes says we got the nerd table. Regardless, I wasn't there to make new friends. The food was great though.

After dinner, we went to see Date Night. It was a great anniversary movie and parts of it were very funny. The premise of the movie was great. I won't give it away but I'll say that there was a part at the end of the movie that I really related to. Tina Fey and Steve Carell (who are married) are sitting in the car and he says something like "Don't you ever wish sometimes that you would have married someone else? Or that you could run off with someone else and do it all over again?" And she says, "No, no, no! If anything there are times when I just want to run away and be alone! To get away from everything! Not with anyone else, I just want to be alone." And of course he gets this horrid look on his face and says "Ewww. That sounds miserable." And then somewhere later in the conversation one of them says, "And if I did it all over again, I'd pick you every time." And that's how I feel.....I never imagine being married to someone else. I never think the "if only's". If anything, I think I just want to get away (and those are times when my work trips come in handy). I think I'm tired of folding laundry. I'm tired of picking up after him. I'm tired of closing all the chip bags in the pantry, I'm tired of (insert whatever I'm tired of here). But if I had to do it all over again, I'd pick him every time. And that's the jest of it.

So, we slept in on Saturday until 9:45 and since breakfast ended at 10 we missed it. Darn, I was really looking forward to seeing what Tammy, Brian, Amy, Bradley, Jackie and her husband whom I forgot did the night before. NOT! Wes laughed out loud when I recited there names back to him and he said "I couldn't even tell you what their names started with, I was just going to call them all "buddy" if I saw them again." We spent the rest of the day at the outlet malls in San Marcos, some shops in Wimberley and just driving through the beautiful country up there. Somewhere along the way we had a 15 minute discussion on how Wes hates Salmon. Of course I have never tried it but I hate it too. Also somewhere along the way we determined that we wouldn't make it back in time for dinner on Saturday. So I called and asked if they would box it up for us and we would pick it up about 7. Another good plan to not eat with our new best friends. We wanted to chow down our dinner and squeeze in a nap before heading out to Gruene Hall to watch a band that we both like. As I carried this big heavy tray into our beautful little cottage I had to hold back the burst of laughter....it was salmon. So our nap plans got thrown out the window and we headed toward Gruene stopping at at yummy little hamburger joint on the way. 

The music was great that night and the weather was awesome...a positive since the place only had fans and was caged in with chicken wire type material so the air circulated from the outside. And then we awoke to our alarm at 10:45 this morning...How great is that? But again we missed breakfast. But I'm sure it was really good and I love breakfast so I kinda wish we had made at least one of the days.

It was a great time! It was relaxing, fun, and I am completely and utterly in love with my husband. And in this day and age that's a good thing!