Romance Or Not To Romance: Small Talk Six

Today’s topic is the “6 most romantic or unromantic things that have ever happened to you.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc …

I decided to pick the romantic things, because  there are always a ton of the unromantic and since it is Valentine’s Day, I figured I make it a nice one.

1. Romantic: My now husband drove 8 hours to meet me face to face for the first time since meeting online, and he showed up at my front door on the 4th of July.  We kissed under the Arch ,under the fireworks.  It was the first time in my life that I got home at 6:30am, and woke my mom up to tell her I just got home  lol.   We’ve been married for almost 7 years and together for 13 years.
2. Romantic: This won’t sound like a romantic proposal, because it wasn’t fancy, but it was to me.   I showed up from work at our apartment, and walked in the door.  I heard rustling and actually got scared that someone was in the apartment with me, and my dear husband, came down the hallway, dressed in a suit (which was something special in itself ), 2 dozen white and pink roses, and he knelt down and asked me to marry him.  I had told him that I wanted a nice personal, low key proposal.
3. Romantic: The first time I visited his home country, he took me to dinner in an old stone fort that was a restaurant high on a hill overlooking the ocean.  This place had the best Creme Brulee!
4. Romantic: We were in Las Vegas, and the closest we would come to actually going to Italy, and riding on a gondola was at the Venetian.  We spent the next hour listening to our guide singing songs in italian.
5. Romantic: Our Honeymoon.  We spent 2 weeks in New Zealand.  We shared our first days as husband and wife in a hotel in a bed and breakfast in wine country.
6. Romantic:  Hiking in the fall in West Virginia to an overlook peak. The hike was killer, we were huffing and puffing  lol, but when we got to the top, there was a couple getting married with violins playing and anyone could be there.  We sat on a rock and held hands, sort of renewing our wedding vows.