Ants on the Melon
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Yesterday, April 1 2005, marked one year of dating for Alana and me. I can’t believe it has already been a year, but the calendar does not lie. Over the past year we have traveled together a lot (Rochester NY, Virginia, Houston, NYC, etc), she’s met most of my friends and I have met most of her’s, and we have learned a lot about each other. She is still quite amazing. I am not sure I will ever understand how she is able to make complete strangers feel so comfortable around her (whatever personality trait this is, I am sure that I do not have it). She has certainly changed my life in more ways than one (as well as my hair), and I can’t imagine what I would be like without her now. I love you Alana!

My friend Melinda was in town this weekend with her husband Steve for the wedding of their friends. She wrote to me a few weeks ago to see if we could get together at some point, which of course sounded great to me. So after their arrived in town yesterday and picked up their rental car, I met up with them and took them to eat lunch at one of my favorite restaurants in town, Adelante. Alana had already arrived and had a table waiting for us. It has probably been over two years since I’ve seen Melinda, so it was nice to have lunch and catch up with what they have been doing. Afterwards we brought them by our apartment and talked for a little while until they had to head downtown to their hotel and begin preparing for the rehearsal.

Since yesterday was both April Fool’s day and our one year dating anniversary, Alana thought it would be funny to trick her parents and grandmother by telling them that we had gotten married on the spur of the moment earlier in the day. I did not think this was so funny, but she went ahead with the prank anyway. Alana came up with a ring from one of her students that would work for surprise, while everyone was in shock. When her parents and grandmother showed up at the dance competition that we were at last night, Alana could barely contain her excitement as they walked over towards us. When they were all standing in front of us Alana told them that we had gone to the courthouse earlier and gotten married, and showed them the ring from her student. They stood there for about two seconds with their mouths open until her dad gave me one of the greatest compliments I have ever had. He said “I know better than this, Cory would never do something this irrational.” He is SO right!

Also, Sarah called yesterday to say that she is going to be in San Antonio next week for a business trip. Sarah came to visit a little over a year ago, so it will be great to see her again. She has Wednesday afternoon free so I hope to leave work a little early that day and hang out with her.