Everything was perfect.
It was a bit crazy at first. Cindy got out of her GS ISS early so she came home and had to log into work for a bit. At that point I really had no idea what to do with myself to keep busy until dinner time, so I went outside to play with the dogs. The first curveball came when my sister came home with her fiance and a friend of hers. I asked her "are you planning on having dinner here tonight?" She replied, "yea, we're eating at home." I asked her "can you not?" and smiled.....she knew what was going down and suggested they go out for dinner. I think my brother also suggested they go out for dinner too to make sure she got it... everything was under control.
After she was done with work, I suggested we go out to pick up a bottle of wine and some ice cream. Basically anything to get her out of her PJ's and into street clothes. When we went to the liquor store, she said she wanted a prosecco, something we rarely ever drink. I kept thinking to myself, "is this her way of telling me she knows, without saying it straight out?"
We went home and had a great dinner of hand-pulled noodles. Even though it "wasn't as good" as the place on Doyer Street (Tasty Hand-Pulled Noodle), she thought it wasn't bad. I told her we didn't have enough pictures together so I was even able to persuade her to take some pictures at dinner.
After dinner I suggested we watched the movie "Up" since we haven't seen it in a while. I'm not really sure if she was suspicious by now, since our first date included a modest dinner of hand-pulled noodles in c-town and then the movies. To throw her off a bit I said, lets start the movie early so we're done by 10:30, I think Brian (my brother) wants to watch the Laker game tonight. Either she played along or the plan worked..
So I came upstairs to grab the hard drive with the movie and turn on the cameras. I have a video of me setting this up. By now I was extremely nervous, I can still feel it now, thinking about it. I kept repeating, movie, cam, cam, RING, movie, cam, cam, RING. To make sure I didn't forget anything. So just like practice, I came up, turned on the 2 video cameras, got the ring and hard drive. Once I got downstairs, as I was setting up the movie, I activated the 3rd camera. To keep her from sitting around and noticing the camera I asked her to get me a beer, as you'll see in the video to come. I also had the cameras in place the day before so if she were to notice them, they would've been off and just "accidentally" placed there.
So enough reading, blogs with so many words are boring as hell....
This is the video we watched. If you live under a rock somewhere and have never seen this movie, its a great watch, but unfortunately this uploaded copy is not the full version.
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