Apple Hill turned out to be crowded, busy, chaotic and a major disappointment. The only thing that really pleased me about the trip was that Daniel was delighted I was willing to kiss me in public. Apparently this was a rare quality in other people he had dated. This just made me want to kiss him more.
After Apple Hill we back tracked a tad down to Old Town Placerville to a farm to fork restaurant that I think was called Farm to Table. It had terribly slow service, but was owned by a friend's sort of boyfriend's family so I wanted to check it out. The food was good- Daniel had a pate sandwich, and I had a pumpkin squash sandwich. Delicious!
Daniel was majorly excited by all the fancy meats in their fridge case and was dying to buy a bunch of it to bring back, but we were going to be gone all day so he couldn't. He was slightly tortured by the whole thing. It was kind of funny. After that we headed onwards to the long drive to the HideOut!
The HideOut is roughly an hour from Placeville on backroads that you speed on. You never see any other cars and it's just striking views the whole way. It's gorgeous. Once you get to the final turnoff, it's 2 miles on dirt roads before you finally see the gorgeous cabin.
The HideOut is a place where, if I was going to get married, where I would do it. But, having had a lot of time to reflect on this the last few years... I really don't want a wedding. I am good with a party to celebrate afterwards, but I don't want a wedding. I want to elope. Somewhere fantastic, granted, like another country, but I don't want a wedding. It's too formal and it's just not me. Daniel felt the same way, but he also knew I was taking him somewhere special that IS where I would want to get married, should I have a wedding. We talked about it the whole way there and off and on that day. It was really intimate.
Once we got there we couldn't find the owners so we just wandered around and took property photos instead.
And some fun ones too. I just loved taking these!
This last picture was the one I put on my instagram account. It was my way of "coming out," and saying I was dating someone, without really saying so. We had been going out for just two weeks! (Plus two weeks of writing letters before that.) But we were both really excited and this was clearly the beginning of something really special and I loved it. I loved that the photo was sneaky and clever and all subtext with no direct and obvious meaning.
Later on, now that I am writing this, it makes my heart ache, because it was the only photo we took together. I would have given anything for a photo of us together. I wish there was more. With all my heart I wish there was more.
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