Our First "Date"

One thing I realized that I never put on our blog was the story of one of our first "dates." It was 7 years ago this month which is pretty hard to believe, we were together for 5 before we got married, and here we are almost ready to celebrate our 2nd anniversary already.It wasn't officially a date, but I think I had asked Mike if he'd want to go into the city for the day and take advantage of the beautiful weather. We're pretty sure the date was September 17, 2005, which really is crazy it was seven years ago already.

We took the train from White Plains into Grand Central. I had the idea of going to my favorite museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I'm def a walker, although I think even I had underestimated the walk from Grand Central up to the Met. I think I told Mike it was maybe about 20 blocks, it was closer to like 40 blocks, he still never lets me forget that one, especially any time we are in the city, although I do know my way around the city. I love these pictures of Mike, I'm so glad that I have them. The pictures below was Mike's attempt to look sad/tired after I made him walk all the way up to the museum.

After the museum we stopped at a bar up by the museum for a drink where we sat and talked for a while. Then we had attempted to go to the San Gennaro Festival down in Little Italy, or maybe we did that after dinner, it is a little bit of a blur. I say attempted because we did not stay there very long, it was sooo crowded. I do remember that we did have dinner in the Theater District near times square. We went to this little Italian restaurant, Da Rosina. I'm not sure what I was laughing about at dinner but apparently it warranted a picture that Mike took of me here. I do remember this much that it was the night of our first kiss! And that is the story of our first date to NYC in a nutshell :-)