Part #1: The initial meeting

Okay, in case you didn't get this minor detail, this entire 24 hour weekend date was planned without SM (SexyMan) and I talking on the phone. Darn internet and text served as our only means of communication until we were staring each other in the face.

I timed the drive almost perfectly. We decided to meet at a Charlotte restaurant a 1 pm. I arrived at like 1:10. He was already sitting at a table sipping on a water. I walk in a bit frazzled (I was 10 min late because I stopped at the nearest McDonald's to reapply lipstick, brush some bronzer on, and spritz my smell good on). And I came trying to look casually dressed; however, I don't do good on casual, especially when making first impressions...or rather 2nd impressions 5 years later.

I saw him sitting at the talbe. Despite my poor eye-sight, I thought...he's still got it. I approached and smiled and he rose and gave me a good hug. He wore a nike t-shirt, khaki shorts and Jordans. He was shorter than I remembered; 5'10...yet he wore it well, at about 190 lbs. His hair was neat, and his Go-Tee accentuated his sexy lips. He greeted me with a casual, yet familiar warm embrace. I sat down and we began conversation...initially, it was casual, and you could still tell that both of us were nervous. But conversation unfolded. We caught up on the past few years.

People always ask what's the first thing you notice about a person and/or your favorite feature on somebody. For the longest, I was at a loss on how to respond to this question. It's his lips. The first 20 minutes or so while my mind was listening to his words my lust was watching his lips move.

Random funny, when the waiter brought our platters out (I had salmon and he had crabcakes) this older (had to have at least been 80 years old) white lady approached our table. Him and I discussed later that we had the same apprehension upon her approach; however, our worries seemed ridiculous when she asked, "Is that the grouper and crab cakes?" LMAO. We for sure thought that she was going to comment on the vanilla and chocolate swirl.

By the time we finished, it was approximately 2:40; check in was at 3, so we decided to head over to the hotel. He booked through traveloicty. When he said, yes there is a reservation under Sexy Man, the lady looked it up on the computer and said...it's not here. SILENCE....no offering alternatives, or a room at the same rate. Then another young man came out and helped to find our reservations. Let's just say that customer service was not this place's strongest quality.

We headed to the room and had finally started to warm up a bit to each other. Making silly jokes and trying to plan our next few moves. We saw that we had about 4-5 hours to kill before our dinner reservations at Pewter Rose, and we threw out seeing Dark Knight. My movie review will have to be a stand alone post. The movie was excellent; Health Ledger was PHENOMENAL in his role as the joker.

So we continued to fill quiet moments with laughs...and then it was 3:45...time to go see Dark Knight.