Joyride

Yesterday was our five-year wedding anniversary. Five is the "wood" anniversary. My beloved had planned to takeme hiking, (you know, in the WOODS, and maybe a campfire... but rain happened, just like it happened on our wedding day. Except the rain this week was a lovely, gentle rain, and the rain on our day in 2001 as I remember it was more monsoon-like.
Anyway,, plan B was a trip for dinner at WOODman's, (a local joint where they INVENTED the fried clam. Really!) and then, as is our style, we meandered. We took a random left in Beverly and found the cutest house for sale! The realtor was Mary WOOD. Then we went to the hardware store, and then home to briefly admire the lawn and use the facilities before striking out again.
We went to the movies, (Thank you for smoking- very funny! Very dark. My kinda humor.) then to Salem to a coffee house, very nice!! Then, we somehow were hungry again... and went to Sam and Joe's for pizza. Home again, home again, jiggety-jig. At Sam and Joe's, we saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt that said "WOOD end".
Somewhere along the night, I looked down at our satellite radio and saw the title of the song playing was "Joyride". It's not a great song, but it was another neat sign to us because Joyride had been our "theme" for our wedding. The morning we got engaged, Scott gave me a print by Steven Huneck, of two labs leaning happily out a car window. He told me that this was how he envixioned our life together- a long-term, joyful journey. He was right, it has been.
Last night when he fell asleep, his belly aching from our ridiculous tour of junk foods of the North Shore, I prayed in thanksgiving for our joyride, for our little family, for our love.
I'm so loving the joyride!