Who are these people?

Who are these people? They look slightly familiar. She cannot be the same women that I look at in the mirror, and him....is that the man I see across the table every day? What happened to us? I guess it is just the 43 years that passed over us.

Today has been filled with memories of the past 43 years, and all of the joys, as well as the pain, and sorrows. Every life holds some of each. Another anniversary....and how did we celebrate it? It started off with a "banana smoothie" for me....sounds good huh? Another name for this concoction is "contrast fluid", in preparation for a CT scan to check on an aneurysm, and hopefully to pinpoint the abdominal pain I have been experiencing for the past two weeks. At least the girl who did my IV was very good!

When we finished up with my tests, we headed out to go to lunch, but I began to feel sick, so we went home to let me get that nice stuff out of my system. There is a silver lining though....Ralph found those bottles that held the banana smoothies to be of "high quality" and just right to put away for some useful purpose. ( I could name the people who are laughing right now). When I was certain that I would be alright, we went to ChinWah for lunch. That was a good decision, bringing back some good memories of our wedding breakfast at the "Hawaiian". It is no longer in existance. Too bad. The atmosphere was so nice there. You felt like you were in a grass hut on a beautiful island during a rain storm. We loved that place, and went back there often for many years until they closed.

Over our lunch, we discussed various memories of our wedding day, and the early weeks of our marriage. We have not laughed so hard in a long time. It felt good. Here we go again......what's over the hill or around the bend? Who knows? One thing I do know.....we are both very grateful for our six wonderful children, their spouses, and our ten grandchildren. In our eyes, they are the best in the world. Whatever lies ahead, we are up for it. Bring it on!