Anniversary Weekend

This past Saturday, April 18th, was our 7 year anniversary. I can't believe it's been so long. Gianni visited me when I studied across the pond in London and when I studied in LA. We spent 5 years of our relationship doing long distance while one or both of us was at college. Finally getting to live with him, and spending the bulk of our time together, in Korea has been a fantastic experience. We have had so many adventures together these past two years, and I love travelling with him (mostly because he'll go along with whatever I want hahaha). I can truly say that we have grown so much together. We are different people than we were when we started this relationship--different for the better. When we go home this September, there is going to be a lot to do, and it's nice to know I always have a constant in my life, even when it feels like everything is changing. I can't wait for this time next year when we will finally be getting married!

That's enough of the sappy stuff. To celebrate our anniversary, Gianni finally agreed to wear couples clothing! Couples in Korea love to show off the fact that they are together. They wear couple rings and often wear couples outfits--and I do mean complete outfits! Couples often wear matching shirts, pants, accessories, and even socks and shoes. Gianni has always said he is completely uninterested, but I figure "when in Rome"! Gianni changed his mind after we found shirts last week that say "Boston, Massachubatts" on them. We had seen them before, but never been able to find them for sale and buy them ourselves. Needless to say, we had to buy them when we found them. Gianni and I each got a shirt, and he agreed that he would wear couples clothes if it meant he got to show off our awesome new shirts. We held off wearing them and put them on for the first time on our anniversary. They are pretty wonderful shirts. We also put on our matching hats--same color, but Gianni's has a male cat with monocle and bowler hat, and mine has a girl cat with tiara and glasses--that we bought last fall. We even had matching socks that we bought for our anniversary last year. I have a sneaking suspicion that that was my first and last opportunity at couples clothing, so I wanted to do it right. The outfits were pretty great, if I do say so myself.

After getting our gear on, we decided to go to one of our favorite restaurants in Daegu, 55 Dining. You pay a set price for a 6-course meal, and the menu is constantly changing. You might have a few options for courses--like we chose which pizza and pasta we wanted--but, for the most part, you just get what they are making that day. The food is always delicious. It is kind of a nice restaurant, and we definitely weren't dressed nicely with our t-shirts on, but whatever. After dinner, we went to the grocery store and bought a mini-cake to share while we watched a movie.

On Sunday, we made arrangements to give Serena and Max a break from childcare for a little while. Hailey, Max's daughter, is living in Korea with them for a year, and they don't get much time to themselves. Gianni and I love Hailey, and we've been meaning to take her to do some fun stuff in Korea for a while. We picked her up around noon and spent the afternoon with her. I knew she'd love the cupcake cafe where I went for my birthday to decorate cupcakes, so we went there first. Unfortunately, we had a bit of a crisis because the cafe we went to before was closed! I quickly looked up another place on my phone, and, luckily, it was still there. The new cafe was actually much bigger than the first one. There were more people on staff, and there were more cupcake decorations as well. We chose to make 6 cupcakes, and I think Hailey had a great time. She didn't put very much frosting on the cupcakes, but she added practically all the sugar and chocolate decorations the place had! The store owner even remarked about all the decorations when we went up to pay. It took him a while to add it all up for the final price. I'd like to go back there for Gianni's birthday and decorate a cake for him. After decorating cupcakes, we went to McDonald's for lunch at Hailey's request then to the multibang to do some dancing on the wii. Hailey didn't want to play, but she watched us play a few games of Mario Kart also, cheering for Gianni the whole time! We had an awesome time with her. Babysitting kids who can do lots of fun activities is awesome. And we got to practice being around an English-speaking child again, so maybe we won't sound like idiots when we come home and try talking to them like they are Korean kids.

It was a really fun weekend. Now I just have to make it through this week. Gianni and I are going to Seoul with our friends for Marie's birthday, and I am going to the Big Bang concert while we're there! Then we have midterm exams, so I won't be teaching much next week. And at the end of next week, Gage is coming to visit, and I have a whole week off from school! Yay!