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Go for the Gold!
I still need to do a post about the weekend, but I'm having problems remembering it as I keep thinking ahead to other things Tanja and I have planned. Besides, I don't have that much time right now to write a long post like that. But I did want to talk about what happened Monday night.

After work, I headed over to Tanja's apartment in Cordova. She was planning on riding that night and although we went to see her horse, Tiana, last week, I had yet to see her ride. We were just grooming her some the first time I was there.

The timing didn't quite work out like we hoped, because I had to go pick up my tire after it got repaired (it went flat on me over the weekend). But it wasn't that big a deal, I just wasn't able to go to sit with her while she waited at the chiropractor. Instead, I just sat by the pool at her apartments and talked to her over the phone for a bit (damn, did it make me want to go swimming).

Soon enough she arrived and then we headed out to place she has her horse kept…stopping at Subway to get something to eat (and fighting off the temptation to eat greasy pizza that they were selling at her apartment complex). Anyway, we got a little more than we bargained for while there. As we were getting our sub made, a group of maybe a dozen teens and one or two adults came in with a video camera. They were apparently a church group on a video scavenger hunt. It was super chaotic of course, but they asked us if we could help them out. Being in a good mood, particularly with out exuberant they all were, we said sure, though they never really said what they needed us to do. They were just talking over each other and saying stuff like "wait we needed teenagers", "no, they can pass as teenagers", "you're teenagers right" (we got a laugh out of that); then they were saying "ok, I'll commentate for him and you commentate for her." Then everybody got kind of quite and they started commentating with "Go for the Gold!"

Neither Tanja nor I knew what he was talking about, but after a moment of confusion they told us we were supposed to kiss. With a big smile on our faces we said "oh yeah, we can do that" and got right to it. lol. It was so funny because Tanja just couldn't stop laughing as the commentators made their silly comments, the crowd of teens cheering us on and shouting out encouragements, and me just playing right along. ;) Of course, then the adults that were supervising them started saying "Ok, ok. That's enough." I guess we were being a bit too forward for their church sponsored video scavenger hunt. Hahahhaha.

After we finally stopped, Tanja had to give them her business card so that they can email her the video of it. I bet that will be absolutely hilarious to watch. Then they did another thing and got us to sing YMCA with them, gestures and all. It was just wacky and fun. Definitely good times.

Following that, we did get out to see Tiana, but not before Tanja's low gas indicator turned on, more on that later. We got to the farm and Lorrie, the owner of the place was out there and wanted to chat with us for a bit (last time we were out there, her husband had come out just to see the guy she had brought with her). She seemed rather nice.

Then her daughter and new son-in-law arrived, fresh off their honeymoon. They were friendly too, but didn't stay long to chat. It was getting a bit late anyways and Tanja still hadn't ridden yet. I helped her (in very minor ways) to get the tack for Tiana and put it on her. Then she guided her out to the arena and rode her for a bit. I really don't know much of anything about horses, but it looked like fun and she seemed to be doing well.

We ended up staying there until almost 10, with having to cool Tiana down and clean her off a bit. Of course, we still had that problem with the low fuel light, now didn't we? And what's bad is that the only places between the farm and her apartment that had gas closed at 10pm. So, we were quite iffy on whether we would even make it back to the apartment. Actually it was pretty damn funny, because I was giving her a hard time about it and then i confessed that I had been stressing under a similar situation the first time I drove her, after the first movie meetup to go downtown for the first night life meetup. Hehe, it was actually a bonding moment as we realized we were both notoriously bad about running low on gas. That sounds like a silly thing to bond over, but there it is.

Anyway, we did in fact make it back to her place. At which point, I sent her inside to shower off from the ride while I went and bought a gas can and a couple gallons to put in her truck. I didn't want to have to worry about her running out of gas in the morning before she could make it to a gas station.

The two guys working the counter were trying to give me a hard time about running out of gas. But i wasn't having any of it. I just laughed good naturedly with them and paid for it quickly and got back to Tanja. I really was all too happy to do that for her despite her repeatedly telling me I didn't have to.

It was definitely a good night.

Happy Things: Cooking dinner with Tanja. It was just a great. Last night i had her over to my house and we cooked a delicious meal together. When I mentioned it to Krissi, she said it sounded romantic and fun. And I have to say, that I completely agree. It was yet another wonderful time i've had with Tanja.