Since our anniversary had come and gone on April 16th with neither of us doing anything special for that day, my husband and I were overdue for a special time together to celebrate our 3rd year of marriage. So, after much discussion and going back and forth on whether or not to go on a weekend trip, we finally settled on taking one whole day to spend together on Saturday. We arranged for grandma to spend the day with Gregory and made a list of some things we could do that day.
After the drop off at grandma’s house, we began our journey and headed up to Grand Island (30 min away) for the day. Our first stop was downtown to confirm that the downtown coffee shop was indeed having ‘open mic night’ that evening. Adam go some sort of mocha coffee drink and I savored my deliciously milky and creamy hot chocolate (giving away that I do not drink coffee.) After peeking in a little country shop next door, we decided we would eat lunch at Perkins because Adam had never eaten there. He ordered an outrageously delicious omelet and hashbrowns, while I savored a yummy sandwich melt on sourdough.
We were so excited about our next plan for the day. Neither of us had entered a roller skating rink in years. As we recounted our youth roller skating days, we both had a longing to do it again. We had joked about it a couple of times before and we finally did it! We were horrible at first. Though we came very close, I am proud to say that neither of us fell, not even once! It took us an hour or so, but we both began to finally get our skating legs back. We plan to do it again. It was so much fun, despite our blisters and sore muscles, and great exercise. Although, I am sure it was quite comical to those watching the pregnant lady skate. I did well, but I don’t think I quite found my center of gravity.
When we left the skating rink I realized I was one hungry pregnant lady (and thirsty, too,) so we happened by a Baskin Robins for some ice cream and a cold drink. We also killed some time before dinner by wondering through Hobby Lobby and the Hastings Book Store. Adam bought a wow worship CD that we have been listening to a lot lately.
For dinner we decided to eat at Red Lobster. We usually only eat their once every 1-2 years, for a very special occasion. My husband absolutely loves lobster, crab, and seafood. So, despite a longer wait in line, it was a wonderful choice for our evening meal. Adam ordered a large plate of king crab legs and I ordered a stuffed flounder and snow crab legs. It was a great meal with great conversation.
To top off our evening we returned to the coffee shop downtown where we were entertained by a couple of local musicians. The first sang vocals and played his guitar, sometimes in a blues fashion and other times not. He made us laugh and it was a cheerful performance. The second musician described is style of music as ‘unknown’ or whatever sounded good to him at the moment. He played only the guitar. For me, his music was soft and melodic, almost to the point of lullaby guitar music. I closed my eyes and just savored the calm and beautiful melodies that he played. I was tempted to go to sleep it was so dreamy.
And on we went on home, to find our son sound asleep in his bed and hear the tales of his adventurous and fun day with grandma. 
