Spending the Weekend in Australia

This weekend I was supposed to go to Ali's house for a weekend with the girls. Buffalo Wild Wings had other plans for me. Like work. They were 'generous' enough to give me Friday night off. Since I couldn't go to Ali's, I still wanted to make the best of the weekend. I wanted to plan a special date for Malcolm and I. We have only been on one real date and its been like two months. 

I brainstormed ideas for a couple of days until I finally decided on a Sherlock themed night. I started out with all these things I wanted to do but realized I really just wanted to spend some one on one time with him since we rarely have that. As the week went on, the idea took shape and I knew what I wanted to do. I knew Malcolm was missing pieces of home. There is very little I can do to make him feel better but I wanted to do what little I could. One thing led to another and I figured it out.

I refused to tell Malcolm what we were doing. Every time he asked a question, I frustratingly answered, "you'll find out"

He got out of class at 3 and came to his room to find a lousy attempt at a magnifying glass and pipe and his first clue. The clue lead him to my room where I had a picture of his village on my door. 

From there we headed to Festival where he had to decode the ingredients for our meal which was Kababs, basically a burrito. 

We made dinner together in the basement. When we finished cooking we headed back up to my room. We entered the room and I had a blown up picture of Perth's skyline and a ridiculously bad version of a beach. I taped brown paper over our ottoman for "sand" and had a beach on the TV playing ocean sounds. 

It was such a great day. I enjoy every second I get to spend with him, even it is doing something silly like running around town as if we were Sherlock and Watson. Even more, I love that he is willing to enthusiastically do that sort of childish stuff with me.

All in all, it was an extremely cheesy and poorly done decoration scheme but he loved it and that's all that matters. I hope for even a minute he felt just a step closer to his home. It was all worth it if I achieved that.