Father’s Day 2009
Ξ June 27th, 2009 | → | ∇ The latest indignity |
You’re probably wondering what I did for Father’s Day, given that wonderfully disappointing Mother’s Day.
I took the high road and planned out a getaway weekend in Baltimore, visiting Inner Harbor and the B&O Train Museum. The plan was to leave Saturday morning, after shooting a wedding on Friday night. Visit the National Aquarium Saturday afternoon, stay overnight at the Inner Harbor Renaissance Hotel, right on the waterfront, then trip over to the train musem the next day for Father’s Day.
Paul loves trains. So this would be a really cool trip for him to see that big roundhouse and all those locomotives perfectly restored. I felt I had really hit the mark with this surprise adventure.
Until…
He tells me that he needs to shoot a photo session on Father’s Day. I guess the people who scheduled it didn’t have a father, or they hated their father. Who knows. The only thing I got was that the celebration I had planned was in jeopardy. And not the show with Alex Tribec.
Did I ever metion that I tried out for Jeopardy (the game show)? It was one of the hardest thing I ever did. But easier than being married…
Anyhoo, back to the story.
Seething doesn’t really cover the extent of my reaction. Here we had a weekend where we could actually get away to celebrate a normal person holiday and Mr. I-love-photography-more-than-you was telling me he was going to schedule a shoot. So after making his “I don’t know what you had planned but this photo shoot would be WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY cooler than that” pitch to have me cancel our plans, I laid it out on the table that “You don’t know what your missing because this trip is WAAAAYYYYYYYYYY cooler than any photo shoot and it will be even COOLER for ME if I take a date!”
I think he got the message.
We ended up in Baltimore, as planned, and I even let Paul use my two good lenses on his camera. I think photographing the sharks made him happy. I know photographing the trains made him happy.
Next year’s Mother’s Day better be good.