My Age: 23
My S/O's age: 29
Relationship Status: dating for almost 3 months
I gave: Burberry's Brit cologne and cashmere lined leather gloves
I received: a cute bright pink heart shaped pillow, Benefit body cream and make up case. My big gift was a total surprise: Tickets to see the Christmas Show at Radio City and a fabulous dinner afterwards at Del Frisco's steakhouse.
How it worked out:Earlier in Dec we had cocktails at the Rainbow Room the night the lights were turned on at the tree in Rock. Center and I mentioned in passing how I'd never seen the Christmas Show there w/ the Rockettes. So the week of Christmas he tells me "I have a surprise for us Thurs nite" but all he told me about it was to look nice and get to his place by 7. So I think we're going to dinner, but he calls the day of to check that I'll be there by 7 and tells that we'll be eatiing dinner late. So now I don't know what to think, only I hope there's food cause it's 5pm and too late to make my own dinner! I get my luggage down to his place so I can fly out the next day, we have a cocktail and then get in a cab and head for "49th & 6th Ave please." he turns to me and says "Oh do you know where we're going yet? What's at 49th & 6th?" as he kinda winks at me "Well that's Rock. Center...." I process what that means at Christmas time having already seen the tree "We're going to see the Christmas show?!?!?!?!" Poor cab driver got a good yell in his ear I was so excited. We had great seats and afterwards the restaurant was kinda empty for a Thursday night so we could have great dinner conversation. When we got home we x-changed gifts and it was just a great evening! He's been showing his family around NYC this week and said the gloves have been lifesavers!
Anything else: Seeing the show may not seem like much but as a NYer I never ever saw it and knew as little girls my mom and aunt always were taken by their parents to see the Christmas and Easter show every year. This fall my grandma joined my grandpa in heaven and...it was just a nice 'full circle' sort of feeling to have sitting there in the gushy seats knowing my mommy, auntie and grandparents had been there before, all together as a family, as I sat there with a great man who I'm starting to fall in love with.
