Anniversary, work, and BINGO!

We are settled in Maine and we have both been working a lot. Our last blog ended with us still having six days of boondocking left and we did survive! We are back in our campground for the season. I also volunteered to run Bingo here at the campground twice a month! My first night was last night. I was excited because I love Bingo and I was nervous because I wanted to do a good job and did not want to upset the die hard Bingo’ers. I think it went pretty well. We had seven people show up.

We, well more Brian, has a new job lined up for when we leave Maine. He will be working the Michigan Beet Harvest from October 14th through November 20th. It’s good pay, so we will check it out. This means that we will have to leave Maine two weeks earlier than we originally anticipated. We are prepping to be in cold weather for a month. We do not yet know which town we will be in, which is bothering me because I love to plan our routes!

Last year here in Maine, Brian worked at a lobster pound a few miles away from the campground. That has since sold, but the new owner has asked Brian to stay on this year. They have not opened yet, but Brian has been helping with some stuff for that and he has also been helping my employer with some stuff. Fingers crossed we get back on track, financially, before we leave here.

Also, today, June 7th is our 16 year wedding anniversary! Some of you may not know our love story, so I thought it would be fun to share that with you all. Let us go back to 2006, October to be exact.

Brian and I met online on a website called Plenty of Fish. He messaged me because we were both from White Oak, PA. It turns out we were only a few blocks from each other. He is 11 years older than me, which I never minded, but he had kids. I was in my early 20’s and wanted my own kids, so we did not really get into each other that way, but we did talk via instant messenger (you know the AOL days). One day we are chatting via instant messenger and I mentioned I needed to go Christmas shopping and he said he needed to get some done as well. I picked him up from where he was living, this was the first time we actually talked on the phone and met in person… I thought his voice was sexy. He thought it was nice that I wore a velvet track suit had, road rage, and had a trucker mouth. Then a week later we watched a movie together with his kids. I really did fall in love with his kids before I fell in love with him.

New Years Eve, we both spent the night with other people. January 6th, 2007, we had our first official date. We went to see a band he was friends with called Gearbox, and we had dinner at Don Pablos (a Mexican restaurant that has since closed). That was the beginning of our relationship. March 15th, 2007, we moved in together into a small 2 bedroom apartment, and July 6, 2007, our SIX MONTH anniversary, he proposed to me!

We had a long engagement since he seemed to wait a while before letting people know (which I still don’t know why). We got married in Las Vegas at the Little White Chapel on June 7, 2009. I had my dress picked out and paid for a week after he proposed, but I wish I would have waited. The ballgown was not really good to wear in the desert heat. And looking back on it, it was not really my style. Brian wore a rented zip up tux! My mom, Brian’s mom, grandma, aunt and uncle all flew out to see us get married. My best friend, her now husband, and her parents who live in Nevada also came. It was a nice little chapel, but the wedding was not great. We had it recorded and put on a DVD. There is a truck horn in the middle of the ceremony, the officiant stopped to yell at people in the hall who were talking loud, and she also yelled at a guest that took a picture because she said it would mess up the DVD (which it did not). Someone told me, the worse the wedding, the better the marriage… I guess that is true because here we are 16 years later living in a little camper, spending almost 24 hours a day together.

We picked The Little White Chapel because my favorite TV show is Friends and that is where Ross and Rachel got married. The chapel on the show was not anything like the real chapel. The officiant was also the owner and she was on a reality TV show called Bad Girls. She has since past.

Today for our anniversary, we decided to save our money and not go out to eat and smoke a pork butt instead. Brian is working for a few hours, and I am off, so getting some chores done before he gets home. We will enjoy our dinner and snuggle on the couch and watch a movie later.

~Happy Travels!