The Husband & I will be marking our 30th (!) anniversary in a few weeks. I am trying to find a way to celebrate & make it a special day while still adhering to “the new austerity program”. For our 5th anniversary, friends in Seattle reserved space in front of the giant fireplace at the Sorrento Hotel. We had drinks & cake & then we were presented with a room for the night… very romantic. On our 10th, our very good friends/ landlords/neighbors-Margo & Robert threw a party or us on our adjoining decks. They collected a large group of friends, neighbors & acquaintances to celebrate with drinks & food & a lovely speech by Margo. They then gave us a gift of a night at the beautiful Inn at Langley on Whidbey Island. We had champagne in the huge spa tub. Yummy. On the 15th we were in Venice as part of a 2 week stay in Italy… extra romantic. We rented an apartment for a week in NYC for our 20th. We spent the day walking around the city; we stood on the very top of the World Trade Center (not the observation deck, but the rooftop!) at sunset & watched all the buildings in mid-town turn pink, orange & red. After an amazing dinner at Boom! in SoHo, we taxied to the Upper East Side & saw Barbara Cook in her cabaret act at the St Regis. For our 25th anniversary, we went to one of our most favorite cities in the world- beautiful Vancouver BC, where we got married in the presence of our dear friends Ken & Eiric, on a rooftop with a view of skyline & then we drove to Seattle where our neighbors Paul & Cammi threw a big shindig with our friends & family who came from all over. It was a beautiful & very special day. But how do we mark our 30th?
I am afraid the readers will think this is nutty, but I have a little ritual all my own. When I get seated on the MAX train, I take out my Ipod & choose “shuffle”. I then close my eyes & I ask the mighty & powerful Ipod a question & the answer is the song that comes up when I push play. It is sort of a musical 8ball. It is often uncanny. I recently asked it about my money woes & the song was Cyndi Lauper doing Money Changes Everything. I'm not kidding. On Tuesday I did the ritual asking the question- “what can I do to make the anniversary special?”. The song/answer that came up was Dean Martin doing That’s Amore. What could that possibly mean?
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