5 YEARS!!!

September 13th, 2003

Ben and I have been married for 5 years!!! Can you believe it? In some ways it feels like we have been married for WAY longer than that, like it just seems that I've just been with Ben forever! And in other ways, it feels like it seriously JUST happened, like I can't believe that its been 5 years already! Its been over a week now, but I had to write about our wonderful weekend last week! Anyone who knows Ben knows that he is the most frugal person on the planet. So since we've been married I've tried to plan fun surprises, or little weekend getaways for special occasions, and Ben freaks out. He worries that I have spent too much money on all that is planned, or I didn't look hard enough to find the BEST deal, and Its like he has to plan the big celebrations or big events himself, just so HE knows that the celebration will cost us the absolute least amount as possible. (I have a tendency to just to buy the first thing that comes along when planning something, he however will scour every resource possible to find the cheapest deal) Anyway, I have long given up planning surprises for Ben. He is the planner, and he also loves doing it. Which is A-OK with me. He loves planning the evenings for our anniversary or valentines day or birthdays, or whatever, and I have let him take that aspect of our relationship over. It sometimes drives me crazy, but I love that he loves to plan fun things for us, and I know that in the long run, being frugal is the best way.

Anyway, with all of that being said about his frugality, Ben way out-did himself this year. He took me to Seattle for the weekend and we saw 'Phantom of the Opera'! It was SO much fun! The weekend was perfect! (besides a few little hitches-like almost calling it quits right then and there when we got lost on the way to the Melting Pot) :) More or less, it was Perfect! We stayed at a beautiful hotel downtown, went to dinner at the Melting Pot, which I had been dying to do, and then went to Phantom at this old beautiful historic theatre right in downtown Seattle.

September 13th, 2008

This is the Theatre, it was beautiful!

(which you TOTALLY can not tell from this picture-but isn't that a nice one-way sign?) :)

Here's the inside- do you see the Phantom lurking anywhere?

(and yet another Crappy picture) :)

This was my first time ever seeing Phantom, and I loved it! Loved the story, loved the singing, loved all of it, it was a perfect! Ben and I are still singing Phantom songs, I think he has been even more than me! :) He likes to make up his own words that go with whatever he happens to be doing at the time.

This was after the play, can you tell that Ben was in a rush to get to the car and DID NOT want to take this picture??? :)