Whether it was brilliant at the time or not, our Halloween anniversary has gotten trampled by the holiday for the wee Cobras. Anniversary night dinner? Nope, must go trick or treating. That's fine, being with our kids on Halloween makes the day about a thousand times more fun anyway. We just have to celebrate it some other day. This year was a little more special since it was our 5th anniversary, so we have an overnight trip planned later in November to celebrate. In the meantime, Halloween is (of course) a company holiday.
We took the day off without the kids and just hung out. We had breakfast at Bugaloos which we hadn't done in a very long time. We have a very short list of restaurants we can go to that have gluten free / dairy free options for Mr. Cobra to eat. Going somewhere we used to frequent, but haven't been to for at least a year was a real treat.
After lunch we window shopped down Valencia for a couple of hours. This is the short amount of time we are used to having to ourselves. After hanging out together for 4-5 hours, we had no idea what else to do. We had shopped, we'd dined. We didn't want to go to a movie or a museum. What else could we do? How about… we go get matching tattoos?
So we went to Blackheart Tattoo and looked at books. We didn't see anything that struck our fancy, so we talked about an old sketch Mr. Cobra had done years ago that said CO13RA. Thirteen has always been our lucky number. We were married after being together for 13 years at thirteen o'clock. What better way to commemorate our anniversary than a tattoo of the combination of our names with our special number? So we asked the artist, Cody, to draw it up. He showed us a few sketches and then refined a direction we thought looked great. Mr. Cobra had the grand idea of adding 2 stars as well, one for Dexter and one for Brixton. It was a perfect mark.
It was my first tattoo. I got it on the back of my neck (pic is of Mr. Cobra's). I went first because I figured I'd had 2 kids, so a tattoo will be nothing. It wasn't really. I kind of liked the pain. It wasn't that bad at all, but my lip did quiver a couple of times. I just know how to calmly breathe through it, so it didn't hurt that much. It took around 15 minutes to do. Then Mr. Cobra got his. We got matching scars together. Some people renew their vows; the Cobras get matching tattoos.
