Day 23- What is your most memorable Christmas or thing about the Holidays?

Again, pretty ironic with the timing of these questions!

Today just happens to be the anniversary of an extremely memorable date.  A friend of mine had met a guy at a club (who was home on leave) and wanted to date him.  Since we were 18 at the time, her parents said she had to double date to see this guy again.  The guy brought a friend (Hubby) who was also home on leave, and she planned on bringing one of her friends, but that girl got sick the day of the date.  My friend called me up last minute, on this day 12 years ago, and asks if I'll go on a blind date so she could go out with the guy she met (Are you following this?  Yes?  You get a gold star).  I was really apprehensive, until she said he was in the military.  Anyone who knows me knows I'm a sucker for a man in uniform.  :)

So, at 6pm on this day in 1998, I went to her house.  The guys showed up at 6:30 to take us out.  I took one look at Hubby and immediately fell for him, and was beyond excited that he was my date.  But even though I thought he was hot, I kept my expectations low- it was a blind date, after all.

About halfway through our date, I knew I was going to marry him.  I just knew it.  I even tried calling my sister to tell her I found the guy I was going to marry. 

We played pool, saw a movie (the theater is now a Babies R Us... ironic, huh?), and went to Dunks (like every date in NH ends up doing).  I pulled a ridiculous, obvious move- batted my eyes and feigned exhaustion, then asked Hubby if he would drive with me back to my house.  Naturally, he saw right through that and said yes.  We had our first kiss, and the rest is history!

It was definitely a memorable Christmas event.  This year, we are in NH today and will be going out tonight to kind of recreate our blind date.  :)