A Day To Remember

     I had been looking forward to today for weeks.  There were moments when I didn’t think it would happen, but it did and it was better than I could have hoped for.  I got to wake up next to Sam this morning, something I didn’t expect.  I don’t know how long it will last but I have learned to take life’s little joys where they come.  I had so much to do today to get ready for the Ballet.  After Sam left for work I got up and answered some emails.  I tried to take care of some personal business and then I got myself dressed and headed out to the mall.  I had shoes to buy.  I already found the dress courtesy of twentyfour.

The shoes were tricky.  All I could find were not so pretty shoes that they were charging $100-$250 for.  Clothes are NOT cheap here in Israel.  In fact, they are much more expensive than in the States at the SAME store.  I ended up purchasing a cute pair of black stiletto pumps from Zara.  They cost me about $35 and the look amazing.  Not too dressy, workable with casual wear, re-useable, and Sam approved.  it was the last store I went to at the mall.  I had my shoes but I was still missing pretty much everything I needed for my hair.  So I went to the big center.  I ran over to BeautyCare and bought everything… clips, hairspray, bobby pins, even extensions (which turned out to be this hideous orange color.  yuck!)  Got some lunch at McDonalds and went home to get started.

     My hair took hours.  I couldn’t figure out what the heck to do with it.  In the end I did a side swept bang and a bundle of curls.  Sam got home about 6:30 looking really good and of course… I wasn’t finished.  I worked fast and got my makeup on, then got dressed.  I came out of the room when I was done changing and Sam’s jaw fell open LITERALLY!  It was great.  All he could manage at first was “Wow!”  I felt amazing.  That was the reaction I wanted.  The Ballet was scheduled to begin at 7:30pm so we had to hurry.  I felt like a princess.  He opened my door and offered me his hand and escorted me to the theater.  The theater here is new, just a few months old, and it is amazingly beautiful.  Extremely small by American standards but lacking nothing.  Sam got us tickets dead center (great seats).  The show started about 15 minutes late (they were on Jewish time) But when it did… the show was beautiful.  Tchaikovsky's “Sleeping Beauty”  It was my first ballet.  Sam wasn’t thrilled about going but he sat through it anyway and I loved every minute of it.  Afterward, we came home to change and went out to Coca to eat.  Neither of us had eaten anything since early afternoon and by this time it was 11pm.  It was a really great night.  It ended as it should have, I fell asleep in bed next to Sam.