Moments after getting married, August 18, 2001
Yesterday Ross and I celebrated our tenth anniversary. He is really very good at these kinds of things. We went went out to dinner and watched the sunset over the bay, and he gave me a lovely gift. My favorite part of all was the card he gave me. In it he wrote all over little summaries of some of our best memories together. It made me laugh...and cry.
He listed some great memories, like hiking to Machu Picchu together right out of college. He also listed the funny and spontaneous moments that became big memories for us. For example, on that same trip, in the midst of an incredibly long bus ride through the Peruvian desert, we stopped at a truck stop for lunch. I ordered fish and the meal came with the fish's head still attached. I was very grumpy about it, so Ross started singing "fish heads, fish heads eat em up, yum." I recall that his song just made me grumpier. But looking back, it is a really funny memory, and a moment that brought us closer together. So, on the anniversary card, he simply wrote "fish heads in Peru" to evoke that memory.
I love him for singing that song, and for appreciating that moment, and for being here 10 years later to remind me of it. I'm grateful for the thousands of other memories we've made together along the way, and the many, many more to come.
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