Five Years Ago

It's hard to believe that it's been five years since our first "date" or what I consider to be our first date. I guess it wasn't really a date but it was our first real adventure together and the first time we really hung out, it was also the day of our first kiss.I was hoping we would have time this month to recreate our first date but seems that time has gotten the best of us again.

I remember our first 'date' it was a beautiful, and hot, sunny September afternoon. (We think it was the 17th). In any case we began our day by taking the train from Westchester into Manhattan. My game plan was for us to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since it was such a beautiful day outside I had suggested walked there from Grand Central Station, turns out not such a close walk, I had under estimated just how far it was. I think I told him the museum was on 60th or 70th, turns out it was on 82th. I just looked it up and it was over 2 miles away. To this day Mike still gives me grief about making him walk all the way there. He must've somewhat liked me then since he was a pretty good sport about walk there. We had a good time at the museum where we saw my favorite Egyptian temple exhibit. You can tell by the look on Mike's face that he really enjoyed it.

After that we walked and found a local bar where we had a quick drink and we chatted for a bit. Then we decided to go downtown to the St. Genaro Italian Festival. That turned out to be pretty crowded, which I later learned in our relationship that Mike doesn't particularly like crowds, so we headed back to midtown by the theater district where we got an nice Italian dinner the two of us before we headed home for the night. This was to be the first of many of our adventures together.