Date Day

So today Lindsea rolled out of bed at the unholy hour of 9:30 and headed straight to her morning ablutions. She brushed and combed, primped and pampered, curled and sprayed for nearly an hour. Then, about half way through her preparations, she came in and woke me up and the slightly less unholy hour of 11:30 to get ready for the day. 5 minutes later I was sitting on the loveseat, dressed and ready to go, with my morning can of Dew in my hand. I waited. and I waited. Then, after waiting, I waited some more. Finally, after waiting, I decided to kill some aliens on the TV for awhile (aka play Halo: Reach). At the precise moment I started the game, Lindsea announced her readiness for leaving. Ain't that always the way?....

The reason for all this effort was so that Lindsea and I could spend a date day together. Actually, the real reason was so Linds could get all dandied up and show off in public. Being the obliging husband that I am, I acquiesced to her "request" .

We decided to make use of our Annual Passes for Universal Theme Parks and go check out some rides. After we stopped by the 7-11 for some Dew of course. We parked in Timbuktu, walked about 4 miles and then another 2 miles walking on the moving sidewalks. We decided to go to the main Universal park, aka "the one without Harry Potter World in it", to start the day. We rode Jaws. Our fella driving the boat was very enthusiastic. The best part was when he kept having to tell the Latin folks to put their cameras up or the boat wasn't going to go anywhere ha ha.

After Jaws, I attempted to win Lindsea some items from the Claw booth. You know, the one where you use a claw to grab a prize and drop it in the box. Fans of Toy Story know what I'm talking about. The first one I tried was one with large plush Angry Birds in it. I got one in the claw and made it half way up to the box before the claw's strength gave out. I tried again with one containing Xbox 360's with the same result. I get that they are a waste of money, but hey, at least give me a fighting chance to win something!

This is a picture of me to illustrate the story just told:

After that we grabbed a passing turkey, grabbed a leg off of it, smoked the leg, and ate it.
Here is a picture of Lindsea asking for napkins to help us clean the delicious juices off of our fingers:
Lindsea was so happy that she hugged a pole:
Then we hung out in Hogsmeade for a bit:
Engaged in some PDA in front of some ride:


Then we trekked back about 15 miles to the car to head home. On the way out, we saw Marty Mcfly. He wouldn't let us take his picture, but we got one of his car anyways:
On the way home Lindsea amused herself by taking pictures of herself. She's beautiful :D