Kissing and Telling

Way back in September at our open house here in California, my awesome bosses from the Lakers, Jason and Alison gave Shannon and I two tickets for the game on Valentine's day. It was a great way to celebrate Valentine's day and six months of marriage.

The thing you have to know about LA in case you don't is that traffic can be terrible (I say can be because yesterday we took Eva and Russell on the 405 to LAX and hit virtually no traffic) and Thursday was no exception. The game was on national tv and the Heat/Thunder game that was on before ran long. Thankfully that meant that tip was about 20 minutes late. It took us two hours to get to the Staples Center but we eventually got there. I texted Alison to let her know we were there and she let us know that the auction would be starting late because of traffic. We got to our seats just in time for the Lakers to make a big run and cut the Clippers lead to just three.

One of my favorite things about last season was the kiss cam. When I was sitting at the auction booth I would run for the aisle to watch it once I heard Sunny and Cher start up with "I Got You Babe". The last time out before half time the Lakers search the crowd for couples and show them on the big screen until they share a kiss. Often hilarity ensues when a non couple is put on, a celebrity couple, or even a pair of fairly newly weds. And whilst Shannon and I have attended a number of sporting events together we have never been on the kiss cam. So I put my arm around her and said let's look like we like each other. I am very particular about the kiss cam I like funny kisses and nice kisses not gross jam it down your throat kisses, and that was what I saw on the kiss cam until we saw this...

We were legitimately surprised. I remember thinking oh my gosh, that's us! We had made the kiss cam.

This was such a surprise. I remember thinking how fun it would be if we got on, but I didn't really think it would happen. But now that we were on it was time to smooch.

I think our kiss was perfectly romantic and appropriately affectionate. The funny thing about the kiss cam is that you want to have a picture of you on it but is impossible because you can't really prepare for it. Unless of course you have the power of the Lakers behind you. Alison got one of the team photographers (Thanks Evan) to document it for us, and that is how we got these great pictures.

Of course I was pumped about it and made sure to mug for the camera. I even threw up a #1. We were so excited, moments later Alison sent us this picture...

 We went down to the auction at half time and were so elated and appreciative. I had the best coworkers at the Lakers and was blown away by all the planning they did to make this happen.The only bad thing about the evening was that the Lakers lost...to the Clippers.

It was the best possible Valentine's Day. We posted the picture on Facebook and got over 100 likes. It's the most I've got for a picture I've been in besides the picture announcing our engagement. I was so happy that I got to spend Valentine's Day with Shannon and am looking forward to many more although this one will be hard to top.