Significance of dates
On November 16th, 1969, my parents were married. When I was much younger, they used to always get a babysitter on this night for myself and my sisters and go out to Trader Vic's in Dallas. They'd eat dinner, maybe have a few mai tais. Over their meal, in the midst of the exotic tropical milieu, they would talk about their future, the vacations they would take once the kids were grown and gone.
Today would have been their 37th wedding anniversary.
Trader Vic's in Dallas closed in 1989. It opens again this month in the same downtown Dallas location, the space basically unused for the past 17 years.
posted by j kelly @ 4:55 AM
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3 Comments:
omigosh, Trader Vic's is opening again? Let's go there, you will love it!
Thanks for remembering, I've thought about it all day long. It's nice to know I'm not the only one.
Mom
You know, I don't think that either of them would have traded the life they chose for the life they talked about over mai tais...it wasn't as romantic, perhaps, but it was much more authentic for them. No regrets - we make our choices, and we live them fully, or at least we try. And maybe we won't be around to see the restaurant re-open, but we will have something much more important...
The joy wasn't in actually living a specific different lifestyle, it was in possibilities - that today was beautiful and fun (I remember walking very pregnant in the snow and nearly falling, that was with either Jessica or Rachel, I guess I didn't get any Mai Tais that year) but we would have tomorrow together to try something different. And we did have a lot of tomorrows, 32 years of them. It was a good life together. No regrets. Mom
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