All Because of Avocados....

One year ago today, January 16th, Danny and I had our first date.

Here's our story...

Imagine if you will, a much simpler time, June 2009. I was running on my sister-in-law Tiff's RAGNAR team, the Valley Babes, when Tiff announced to the team that everyone needs to help in the effort to look for a husband for me. Kelli Booth was on our team (although she was hurt and didn't run) and told me about her "cute cousin". She said that she might have to wait a couple of months to actually set us up, but that she would let me know.

A few months later, in January, I get a phone call from Kelli, who told me that she would like to set me up  with her "cute cousin" now and asked me if I still wanted. I told her that I would love too and needed all the help I can get in this department.

A couple of days later I got a message from Danny while I was at school asking if it was okay for him to call me later that night, I texted him back and told him that worked for me. That night we talked on the phone and arranged a date for that Saturday. I was way excited for our date, on the phone he was easy to talk to and really funny. Plus, Kelli kept telling me how cute he was. (I did try to look him up on Facebook to do a little pre-date stalking and to confirm the cuteness, but could only see his little profile picture, but what I could tell from it was he was indeed cute.)

It was this picture, but smaller.

The night of the date came, the plan was dinner and a movie. When he came to pick me up, my thought was that Kelli was telling the truth, he was cute. We went to the Sonora Grill for dinner. We decided that we wanted the table side guacamole (highly recommended, very delicious!!)! That was one of the highlights of the night. The server that made the guacamole for us, told us all sorts of interesting avocado facts. like California produces 90% of the nations avocado crop and many others. After dinner we went to see the movie Sherlock Holmes. It was a fun date and I loved every minute of it. I was kind of sad when it was over. There were few blind dates I felt that way about.

All Because of Avocados

I wasn't sure if we'd go out again or what would happen in our future. But he called later that week to set up a second date...this time the plan was ice skating (which I picked because I wanted a activity were we would have to hold hands)...which worked, he fell right into my trap. It was another one of our many way fun dates.

Us Ice Skating...at the Gallivan Center

And like they say...the rest is history!!