Another Amazing Suprise

Wednesday night Eric usually goes to adult drop-in gymnastics. This past Wednesday I was feeling quite tired, as I had gotten very little sleep the past few nights due to a combination of attending a friend in the birth process at home (she didn't give birth by Wednesday though) and Amadeus waking up in the middle of the night and deciding to PLAY! As Eric was heading out the door I said something like, "I'm glad you get to go to gymnastics, but I wish you could just stay home and help me with the kids because I'm so tired." He kissed me, we said goodbye, he went out the door.

The phone rang right after he left, and when I answered it was Eric, calling me from the cell phone. "Get dressed," he said.
"Dressed? I am dressed," I replied. I'm usually a little slow to catch on to surprises.
"Get dressed up," he clarified. "You're going out."
"What? Really?!"

After I hung up I realized I should have gotten a bit more info, as I hadn't showered in a few days and didn't know what kind of clothes to wear. I called him back.
"How much time do I have? I want to take a shower."
"You've got enough time to take a shower. And I'm at the front door."
I hung up again and opened the front door. There he was standing in his short sleeve shirt in -1 celsius weather. I don't know why he didn't come back in after we hung up the first time!

So I showered and got ready. Eric and I had been talking for the past week about going on a date, and I was hoping that he would come with me on this suprise outing.

I told him, "I hope you're coming with me this time."
He wouldn't say, but at 7 pm Olive showed up, so I knew he was coming along! Olive is a great find, as she is a competent, responsible, friendly high school student who comes over 2-3 times a week to do our dishes and is also available for childcare. The kids like her, and she is good with them. It's such a relief to have someone we can count on and who is happy to make the $10 an hour that is the minimum wage around here.

I still didn't know where we were going, but as we turned on the road to go up to the college, I figured we were going to the Arts Center, although I didn't know what was going on there. Eric still wouldn't tell me!

It turns out that Ballet Jazz de Montreal was giving a perfomance of Jack In The Box-Les Chambres des Jacques. What a great surprise! I don't know much about dance except that I enjoy watching it, and these artists were amazing. The two shows were about 45 minutes each, and full of energy, artistry, human emotion, and creativity. We both really enjoyed the show, and it was so nice to take in a bit of culture again!

After the show we were both feeling hungry, so we ended up at Earls, as that was one of three options that were open for food at that time of night. As we were eating a large group of people came in and sat at a row of tables right beside us. I glanced over and realized that it was the dancers! Only in Whitehorse, right! We thanked them for the show and said we thought it had been amazing. I also felt like each of the dancers had really put themselves into the performance, so I said that too.

Olive called and said that Amadeus had woken up and wasn't going back to sleep, although he wasn't crying. So we got home around 11pm and put him back to sleep.

I am discovering that I like to be surpised! It's fun not knowing where you are going, but knowing that you're going to enjoy whatever it is. Yay for Eric and his romantic side!