In Honors of Valentines Day

This is one of my favorite stories of Bryan and I, and pretty much sums up how our relationship works.  For my 21st birthday Bryan decided to take me on a cruise down to Mexico... don't worry this isn't gross romantic - make you want to vomit stuff...

Now Bryan isn't a huge fan of actually swimming in the ocean but knows I love it.  I love the salt, the fish and in full disclosure I use to think I could control the waves by singing the song "Hit the Road Jack" when I was young.  True story... please don't spread that one around.

Any who... Bryan knew I wanted to kayak out a bit and snorkel to see the fish.  We almost looked like pros paddling in sync and the sun was shining so obviously we looked good, that is until I decided I wanted to get in the water and asked Bryan to counter balance the kayak.

I don't think he understood what counter balance meant.  There we were both in the water watching our flippers, snorkels and masks sink to the bottom of the ocean....dramatic pause here... this is when I looked at him with my death eyes that pretty much said "you are an effin idiot".

Next thing I know my husband (boyfriend at the time) was panicking about being too close to the buoys (the ones there so that boats don't run over silly tourist like us) and climbing frantically back into the kayak.  Bryan thought the buoys were there as a boundary between us and  the sharks.  That the sharks were all lining up right outside the buoys - waiting for us to step a toe out of line.  Like sharks are that polite.  Maybe he hasn't seen Shark Week on the Discovery Channel....

As I dove for the equipment that we rented (a $200 value) my husband paddled his ass to  the shore and left me in the middle of the ocean (okay this is a prime example of where I might be exaggerating just a bit), to be eaten by the sharks that were waiting just outside the buoys.

I love my husband.  I love that my husband gives me these great stories to retell.  I love that he assumes I can take on a shark no problem by myself. I am choosing to see this as Bryan allowing me to realize how strong, independent and self reliant I really was....yeah not so much. 

But he truly makes me laugh all the time, in any stupid situation we can always find humor even if it is at the expense of each other.  We take turns,  I get a few good jabs every now and then and then he retaliates.  The key to all of this is - is that we can laugh at ourselves - we try not to take everything too seriously and know deep down there is some love there somewhere.

I hope everyone has a great day tomorrow... and know that the major ingredient of love is laughter. 

Kisses Meg.