Great Dates

As promised I am back to do some updating.

So last summer, as I posted, I spent a lot of time in Utah. It was a great summer and I had a lot of time to collect my emotions and figure out what my next step in life was. Things weren't really going my way and I really need to reflect on what I needed to do to make them go my way. The big lesson I learned is that you can't really make it go your way, you just have to choose which way you are going. My final decision was to just move forward.

So I returned to St. Louis with new determination to just keep moving forward as I have always tried to do. Then I started to see this really great guy. I confess I was nervous about it for many reasons but also excited because deep inside I really liked him and had liked him for a long time. So needless to say the next several months were very nice as we dated and got to know one another better.

Here are some of the great dates we had.

 
Baseball: The River City Rescales is a minor league baseball team near St. Louis. This was particularly enjoyable because it is small and up close. You can really see the players and their skill. Know how the ball is being pitched and how the batter is swinging. He surprised me with our own personal tailgate after the game. We sat at the truck and enjoyed watermelon he had grown in his garden. Made for a great ending of a fun date.  





Jefferson Expansion Memorial Museum: So under the St. Louis arch is a museum that walks you through the western expansion, you can see a buffalo and a teepee and read stories about different Native Americans and about Lewis and Clark and such. We went here and got our fill of history then took advantage of the evening to go walk around outside, near the river and under the arch.





 Creve Coeur Lake: We went and rented a double kayak and spent a good amount of time going around the lake. Here I learned about egrets and watched in amazement as they tucked their necks back and went from floating on the lake to sitting high in the trees where they looked like some strange kind of tp-ing job.





 Tennis: We would go play tennis every once in awhile. During these times I learned how patient he is because, before meeting him, I had never played tennis and I was awful. (I still am, but I really try hard to do better.) Anyway he was great at working with me and showing me how to do things without acting all knowing or being critical or anything. He is good at praise and acknowledging small accomplishments and hard work. And he gave me a new racquet for my birthday!


Obviously I was falling for him and from the look of things it seemed that he just might be falling for me too.