Well we made it back after our wedding anniversary getaway, we decided to stay down town rather than go out of State. We spent three days in a hotel down town, we had a great time relaxing and playing the tourist in our own town.

We saw movies, Jumper (great movie) and Rambo (intense, not the best Rambo film), we checked out the remodeled Seattle Art Museum and we went to a musical, we saw Mame. We enjoyed the musical and decided to get season tickets for the next season of shows.

It was really good for us to get time away from work and family issues, we certainly are getting to try out all the down town hotels and restaurants.

It is good to back though in our own space.

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Our love story - the short version time compressed.

It won’t last!

A few years ago I had numerous pen pals all over the UK and the world, then I got a computer and first signed up with Compuserve then AOL. I then discovered online pals and liked the instant responses, no waiting around for snail mail.

One of my online friends was a girl here in Seattle, one day I got up the courage to actually call her on the phone. She wasn’t in but her neighbor was there baby sitting, we talked for a short while. After that initial call we then started sending each other email, talking online, phoning and sending snail mail letters. This went on for over two years, we spent a fortune in phone bills, wore out several keyboards and cut a swathe through a forest of trees with all the letters and cards we sent.

One day I decided to propose marriage and to my surprise Carolyn said yes!

We made arrangements and Carolyn flew to England on the 13th of February, we got married on the 17th of the same month and spent ten wonderful days together.Then we parted with the intention of Carolyn eventually moving to the UK. But after again spending a ton of money on phone bills and considering that Carolyn had kids and grand kids, I upped and moved to the States.

I met the family and slowly had the kids loving me and the grand kids adoring me. We proved the naysayers wrong, and are happily married. I feel blessed to have a beautiful loving wife, some great (most of the time) kids and a gaggle (eight with number nine on the way) of grand kids. We are very much in love and some people still think we are in the honeymoon stage.

So to my loving wife Carolyn, I love you my darling you are my world and you mean everything to me, I have never regretted being your husband, thank you for being mine, I love you with all my heart.

Several people said it wouldn’t last and to those people I say;

Sunday is our tenth wedding anniversary.

“You never buy me flowers!” Carolyn said a while ago.

I decided rather than flowers I would get her something that lasts longer. She likes lockets and has a few, so I decided to get her an engraved locket. Presented it to her just now and she was overjoyed and my brownie point ranking just went through the roof.

Got the locket from a company called Pictures on Gold, they do all manner of items including silver and gold lockets, photo jewelry, medical jewelry, bracelets and charms to name a few.

I opted for a silver locket, I had it engraved on the front, the back and a color photo of myself laser engraved inside.

The website is easy to use and you are spoilt for choice, once ordered the locket arrived really fast and comes in a lovely presentation box with certificate of authenticity and a lifetime guarantee.

I am very pleased with the locket and the service the company offered. More importantly Carolyn loved the gift and agrees it was better than flowers, but she’d still like flowers sometime!

I highly recommend the company and I think we’ll both get the medical alert jewelry we should be wearing from there also.