3rd, 4th & 5th Dates are Equally Enjoyable!

Lovelies, the Tall Englishman is winning! He's a winner! And a keeper! And all those other great things you want from a person whom you smooch, spend time with, laugh with, etc.

I have been pleasantly surprised how much he lets me know that he likes me. Both in actions and in words. (both written and said!) He's great at letting me know he's thinking about me (e-mails, texts, calls, on dates, letters) and I really enjoy being so fawned over. Especially because it's not too much for me. If I didn't fancy him, it might be too much - but let's be honest here, I'm an actress. There can never been too much attention paid to me, right??

So our 3rd date was on Wednesday night. We'll call this the Changes date, as we changed plans a zillion times and it was one of the best dates I've ever been on!

Here was the original plan: Meet at Chevys, go see a movie, have an early dinner & go home.

Here's what happened:

- Met a Chevys on the day of the BLIZZARD! My feet were soaked, as I didn't have my wellies on.

- Tall Englishman suggested we get me a pair of rain boots.

- We went to Bloomingdales to get me a pair of Hunter wellies! (I've had Rain boot envy the past 2 years, as EVERYONE on the UES has them except for me!)

- All sold out of Hunters in my size at Bloomies, so went across the street to a little shoe store on Lex that had them in black in my size! HOORAY!

- Stopped for wine & crostadas at the lovely Fig & Olive. Yum!

- Went to the Beekman to try and see their 6pm showing of "An Education". It started at 5:45 - the guy told us we're better off watching it start to finish. So we looked up another movie on Tall Englishman's iPhone. (Side note: God Bless the iPhone!)

- Went to the Regal cinema on 62nd and got tickets to the Blind Side.

- We had 30 minutes till the movie started so we had sushi at this great little place on 1st and 62nd. Just a little nosh...

- Went to the movie - sat down for the previews and I was about to turn of my phone when I got this text message from my lovely friend Lo.O. who is in South Pacific on Broadway right now: "Hey Miss Musical, I have 2 free tickets to South Pacific tonight! Show starts in an hour. You want 'em?"

I turned to the Englishman and said "You wanna get a cab over to the west side right now and see South Pacific for free at Lincoln Center?" and he said "Yes, please!" SO:

- Took a cab over to Lincoln Center and saw a FANTASTIC show of South Pacific!!!

- Backstage tour / hugs & kisses with Lo.O. after the show (that's her in the blue suit in the pic above - she's great right??)

- Dessert with Lo.O and her charming husband and their friend John after the show!

- A little walk, a little smooching and a CAB RIDE HOME! Lovely.

Date #4.

Saturday night before Valentines day... this date was totally as planned although the Tall Englishman made all the plans. I just got to sit back and let it happen... I liked the bullets I just used on the paragraphs above, so I'm going to copy that again here. (Copying is form of flattery right? So am I flattering myself?? Complimenting my own creative writing techniques?? Yeah, Maybe.)

- Met for drinkys at Public, a GREAT little bar on Elizabeth street with a KILLER fig and vanilla Bellini. I was in HEAVEN! And the Englishman was still charming and tall & wonderful. And he'd been texting me to tell me how excited he was to see me! He's so great. And he gave me my Valentine's day card here - which is in the future blog post because the surprise was so great that it deserves it's own blog post.

- Went to have dinner at a cute Italian / American fusion placed called Aurora also in Soho. Was de-lightful! Great conversation, great food (I had the braised short ribs & polenta puree.... insert Homer Simpson salivating noise here.)

- Walked down the street to have dessert at this great little place called Aquagrill. Had a lovely hazelnut creme brulee. YUM! And I might have had a Bailey's on the rocks. Equally Yum! And we discussed so many great topics here - had our first conversation about our families, and I found out a lot of information as to the events that he's had in his life that have made him such a Rockin' Tall Englishman. He's had some serious struggles, and he's just come out on top every time! I love a good optimist!

- A 2 stop cab ride after the lovely dessert (at his & mine) and a good night text from him finished up the evening. Just great stuff.

Date # 5 was also AH- MAZING!

Couples side-by-side massage & facicals at a little spa here in NYC and drinks after at Dos Caminos. Does it get to be a better Valentine's day than that?? Read on to the next blog post and see.. It does get better!