Round about 2 months ago, The Boy and I celebrated our 12th anniversary together. To celebrate, I wanted to commemorate our years together with a little surprise.
So I secretly planned a surprise weekend in the CBD starting with dinner at Brooks Melbourne followed by a stay at a hotel. To throw suspicions away from my love, I let him know about dinner plans.
I secretly packed our getaway bag overnight and as he left for work, I went into a flurry of activity to pack essential toiletry items. This, I lugged into work to the amusement of my colleagues.
Knowing that he wouldn’t have the slightest clue about the surprise weekend and knowing full well that he wouldn’t have planned his own romantic getaway (he just isn’t the romantic type), I was confident that I would be able to pull the thing off.
After dinner, I revealed to him that we wouldn’t be going home and gave him instructions to our hotel. It was so cute seeing the incredulous look on his face. I love throwing surprises 🙂
The next day, we had breakfast at our favourite CBD cafe, The Hardware Societe before taking a lazy walk back to the hotel. From there we were going to enjoy a lovely Afternoon High Tea at the Langham.
What neither of us had planned on was a visit to the NGV. As an unplanned treat, The Boy (grumbling all the while) decided to take me to view Monet’s Garden Exhibition (ends 8 Sept 2013). He hadn’t a clue what he was getting himself into and only had my exclaims of delight of “Lilies! The Bridge! The Bridge” to go with before taking us in.
However, once we spent a good couple of hours in there, he came out with completely different thoughts and feelings. I was too hopelessly lost and in love with the works and story of Claude Monet. I tend to get a little too emotional at times and got caught up with the love Monet had for his wives and garden (bet he bought his love flowers :P).
The Boy, on the other hand was inspired to recreate what he saw in the gallery onto a plate.
So here you go our dear readers, this is our gift to you as we share our journey through life with you. This is The Boy’s ode to Claude Monet and his beautiful garden.
Enjoy Monet’s Garden!
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Some people get inspired to lead better lives, others to see things with different ‘lenses’ on.
The Boy sees things from another level and always seems to translate things back to food. Which works for me really well ><
What do you think? Have you been to the Monet exhibition or to Claude Monet’s Garden in Giverny, France?
I would love to pay homage to the man and visit his garden. Perhaps on our next grand scheme of adventures, The Boy and I might be lucky enough to visit Giverny.
Until then, we will only have our experiences and visits to the exhibition to go by.
What inspires you in life?
Aww congrats! Our 12 years in on Thursday. What a gorgeous celebration for you guys. The boy is SO creative. Nature inspires me also…
Heidi xo
Yeah, ours was at the end of June 🙂 Our annivesaries are all so close together!
absolutely beautiful!
Thanks Penny~!
you guys are so sweet and you’re such a romantic wifey! love Zeboy’s artistic creations!
Wife of the year (ME ME ME)
gorgeous…
Thanks!
Sigh! That’s stunning! He has a very delicate hand which is such a great skill (I wish I had one :P).
He sure does!
Love the surprise escape – would love the Hungry Dad to get creative like that! This meal is the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen 🙂
He can be trained 😛
This entire post gives me all the feelings inside. I really really like you two. You make me happy and yearn-y without feeling too sad and lonely. Thank you. xoxoxo
Hooray and you are welcome. Anytime hun!
What a work of art indeed! I love, love, love it!
this dish is so pretty! i wouldnt want to disrupt it! wow!
Aww thank you! Just dig into it!
Happy Anniversary again! 12 years! That’s primary school plush high school 🙂 That’s how long you guys have been together!! So sweet!
You’re the funniest always surprising the Boy haha hope you had a wonderful staycation and this is another #nothomecooking dish but so pretty!
Aww thanks babe! It is scary how time passes by so quickly! IT IS HOMECOOKING 😛
Wah you so romantic one!!! After being together for 12 years, you still make plans to do sweet things like this but I guess sometimes it’s these little surprises that help keep the sparks alive in the relationship hor?
And as always Aaron never fail to impress with his beautiful creation! Wish Leon was like that too, but he’s hopeless in the kitchen. 😐
I am super romantic. The Boy is stupid and not 😛
What a beautiful, creative dish. I went to the Monet’s Garden exhibition at NGV today and was lucky enough to visit the actual garden in Giverney in June. Such a beautiful place.
Oh wow! I’m so jealous! I want to go one day 🙂
This is one of my favourite things you guys have done. So pretty I want to frame it!
I will sell it to you. For $1000000
So so pretty. Clap clap. 🙂
Thank you Thank you.