For Christmas this year, my mom got Grant and I a pair of tickets for a night of dinner and dancing on the Spirit of Boston. This was an amazing gift, and included something I love to do, but didn’t get to do often, dance. This gave me an idea, I ran it by Grant and he was ok with it. We bought David and Ellie a pair of tickets as well so that they could join us for a night out! This was our first big Quad event. 

We decided to do the cruise for our Valentines Day outing. We didn’t do it on Valentine’s Day, but one of the weekends surrounding it. I was so EXCITED for this night out. I bought myself a new little black dress. It was a black knee length, halter dress with a rhinestone decorative belt in the front. I felt beautiful and sexy in this dress. I also splurged and got my hair done. I did a partial up, partial down updo, with a lot of banana curls. I feel that I am lucky as my hair is naturally curly, so it holds curls nicely.

After my appointment we all met at David and Ellie’s apartment to finish getting ready. When I got there, Ellie was struggling with what to do with her hair. I had brought some extra hair decorations with me, so I volunteered to help her do something nice with her hair. We also gave her a semi updo with half her hair in a ponytail, with the decorative hair pins to dress it up. 

David and Grant even got completely dressed up. They both wore their fancy black dress suits, with ties. They looked so dashing! I felt like the luckiest girl in the world to have these wonderful people in my life, and we were going out to make a hopefully wonderful memory. We finished putting ourselves together and then headed to the car.

We drove into Boston, and parked across the street from the dock. Back Bay area is a beautiful place to visit at night. You have beautiful views of the harbor lit up by the boston skyline, streets of lit up with night life, as people bounced from bar to bar. It is a happening place! We got in line to board the ship. 

As the line moved forward, you got a chance to take a picture with the safety ring that said Spirit of Boston. This was our first professional quad picture! I was so excited, because the little girl in me was thinking about the Lindsay Lohan Parent Trap Movie, and that her parents fell in love on a harbor cruise, and this felt just like that. I was in love on a harbor cruise.

I may have paid a little extra to get us our own personal table with a window overlooking the ocean. I wanted tonight to be as romantic as I had the possibility to make it. Grant and I sat next to each other on one side of the table, and David and Ellie sat on the other side. We rotated around so that we could be with everyone as the night went on.

The dinner was a beautiful buffet display of many different kinds of pastas, potatoes, veggies and so much more, surrounded by beautiful cascading flowers. They even had fresh carving stations of many different kinds of meat options. Thank goodness it was a buffet, because I wanted to be able to try everything. We sat and had a beautiful dinner together, laughing, and telling stories in the candlelight of the candle on our table, and the view of the ocean, bobbing in the moonlight in the background. It was so romantic.

As the dinner hour was ending, the music switched from slow romantic dinner music, too upbeat dancing music. I was excited, and full, but that didn’t stop me from hitting the dancefloor as soon as I could. I grabbed Ellie’s hand and dragged her out to the dancefloor with me. She is fun to dance with, she has her own unique way of dancing. 

Finally David and Grant joined us on the dance floor. We all held hands and swayed to the music. I remember looking around to each of them and feeling so happy as we all danced together on the dancefloor. We took turns dancing with each other on the slow dances, and all went wild during the fast. I was on cloud 9. 

I decided to go out to the back deck and get some fresh air. David, Ellie, and Grant sat back down at the table for a few minutes. It was nice to go outside and have a few minutes to myself. As much as I love being around a lot of people, it is also pretty exhausting for me. Being alone gave me a few minutes to recharge my batteries. I am very much an extroverted, introvert. 

I looked out over the dark ocean, with only a line of glistening waves lit up by the light of the moon.

I went and rested my arms on the railing on the side of the ship. I looked out over the dark ocean, with only a line of glistening waves lit up by the light of the moon. Being on the ocean gives me such a sense of peacefulness. The cold winter air, nipping my face with the smell of the sweet sea air. I closed my eyes and just inhaled deeply, taking in this moment. 

David came out to check on me. He put his arm around me and brought me in for a romantic kiss. In looking at the beauty of the ocean, I didn’t notice the incredible view on the other side of the ship. David brought me over to see the amazing boston skyline lit up with the waves of the ocean crashing on the shoreline. It was breathtaking. 

Being outside, did not mean that you couldn’t hear the music. They had it playing all over the ship. The song Amazed by Lonestar came on, and David took me into his arms and we started slow dancing on the deck in the light of the moonlit sea with boston dancing in lights behind us. I can’t express the butterflies I felt. I felt like I was in a princess in a Disney movie, having my romantic dance with my Prince Charming, in a beautifully romantic setting. I wanted someone to pinch me to make sure that this was real. And it was, it was so real, and I was so in love.

After the song we went back inside and continued our night with everyone. It was a beautiful night all around, and one that I still remember very vividly. We all went back to Ellie and David’s place and had some adult rated fun. Needless to say, I have a thing for guys in suits. So it was a wonderfully beautiful evening for me!

Highlights/ Lessons Learned:

1. This was an amazing night. There were really no lessons learned besides the fact that it is possible to feel like a Disney princess!