The story of the old couple

Posted by Sammy on Mar 4th, 2010 | no comments home title

There was something posted on the widow boards that I frequent the other day about how most of us widows basically feel robbed of growing old with the spouse that we lost. And for some reason that post immediately reminded me of a story that I wanted to share on my blog.

It was 2003 and Gary and I were on our Alaskan cruise (where he proposed). Before we boarded the Sun Princess in Seward we had hit the Helly Hansen store to look for some fleece sweaters because we were seeing a lot of locals wearing Helly Hansen outerwear. Well we both bought fleece jackets, his was a tan color and mine was blue.

Now fast-foward to the cruise. This shouldn’t be a surprise but most people on our ship were MUCH older than us. We didn’t care though. Well if you’ve ever been on a cruise you’d know how many opportunities you get to take photos by the ship photographers. You head down to their studio area and search for your photo amongst hundreds of others on the wall. Definitely can help pass the time when its freezing outside. Well Gary and I would go down to the studio to check out our photos and EVERY time we would we would keep seeing a photo of an older couple wearing the same color jackets like we would wear. I’m talking EVERY SINGLE TIME. We ended up joking about how that older couple was us in 50+ years. I don’t think we ever saw them onboard but we always came across their photo in the studio.

It might not be funny to you, but remembering little stories like that brings a smile to my face. Those that were blessed to know Gary knew how much he loved to bring a smile to someone’s face.