Rick and I celebrated the anniversary of our very first date yesterday. We went to an annual tennis tournament dance in Ojai, California on April 24, 1981. It's amazing to think we've been together for 32 years now, even though we've only been married for 25 years. I say only like that's not very long. Ha! The picture above is one of the earliest ones I have of us together. We were standing in the petting zoo at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Sadly, I don't have any pictures from our actual first date. That would be really cool to have, but it was before cameras went digital and before the age of everyone having a camera via cell phone. Fortunately, my mom loved photography and took quite a few of us in those early days, like the one above.
This last one was taken in 1984, so it was a few years after we'd been dating. I only remember the year because of Rick's shirt. And again, this one was taken at Six Flags Magic Mountain. We went there a lot in the 1980s. By the 1990s, the place was riddled with gangs, so we stopped going. Anyway, it's incredible to think that I've been with Rick for 32 years!
Congratulations!Those are cute photos. So, did you date for 7 years? Charley and I dated for 7 years before we married. People didn't think we were ever going to get married - but I knew we were.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Janet. Yes, we dated for 7 years. We knew we'd get married, but we wanted to wait until Rick was settled in a career first. When I met him, he was going to be a doctor, but he couldn't afford college after his first year. Then he tried for the fire department, but eventually went into law enforcement. We got married after he graduated from the sheriff's department academy. :)
DeleteCongratulations, you two crazy kids! (Love your hubby's white short-shorts;))
ReplyDeleteThanks, Melissa! We were wearing matching tee shirts that day too. We'd just gone to the Alliance for Survival concert in Los Angeles. :)
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