B -73

The other night we went out to dinner to celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary in Sunset Beach, CA.  We went to a small little Italian restaurant, Roman Cucina, which is just down Pacific Coast Highway from the Surfside colony of beachfront homes.

We decided that we would walk down the beach and find the house Julie used to live in, since were married there.  Due to Pappa B's advanced age :) (Austin of course lovingly referred to his Dad as old man), he just could not remember the address. 

 

We started by the water tower house and the adventure started as we walked down the beach in front of the homes and evaluated each house, going in and out of the rows, to see if they fit our recollections faded with the passage of time.  We had to walk to almost the other end of the colony of homes.  We were determined, how else do you get through 29 years of marriage, and knew we would find it if we looked hard enough. 

We would stop and look at each house trying to remember as we looked at them one by one only to have several false starts as we decided many times over that we were looking at the wrong house.  Once we saw B73 it was like both of us said out loud, "THIS IS IT"!  Julie recalled the balcony from where she had thrown her bouquet.  Tom recalled the stain glassed window we stood in front of when taking our vows.  As we stood there and began to reminisce the floodgate of memories opened and we were deluged.

It may not seem EPIC in the sense of an amazing adventure but we feel to have been married for 29 years in this day and age is epic in itself.  We have been challenged and blessed throughout our marriage and love the family that God has blessed us with.


Momma and Pappa B
(AKA: Julie and Tom Brashears)