2 years...sigh

I have mentioned this before, but J and I aren't really a cutsie couple with other people around, therefore i haven't really been gushing that our 2nd anniversary was approaching. To be honest we don't really know the date we started going out. We met March 9, but one of our first REAL dates was Good Friday and Good Friday switches every year. How do i remember this? Well there was a "parade" he thought might be cool to see. New to both of us we walked the streets of Cobble Hill looking and listening. Low and behold we could hear drum beats and chanting and found this parade. Fast forward to last Friday. After our delicious dinner we were walking around the Cobble Hill area and all of a sudden we hear boom boom boom, and ladies chanting in Italian. We had come across the parade. Awwwwww RIGHT?!! Anyways, there is no way to describe how different this parade is...wait let me rephrase, traditional the parade is. As you may be able to tell from my iphone photos, there is the life size Jesus in his plexiglass casket with thorns, stigmata and all (i'm sure stigmata is not appropriate, but i'm having such a challenging time wrapping my brain around this day) followed by a HUGE Virgin Mary dressed all in black. It's a very solemn parade and it was how J and I celebrated US. I hope we didn't offend too many old ladies when we were smooching on the corner as Jesus was carried by.