It was my wife Susanna’s birthday on December 25th and sometime in November I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. She answered right away and said something along the lines of "Mark, you know it’s my 40th Birthday this year, it would be nice to do something romantic and special." I was caught off guard and thought to myself "romantic and special, what does that mean?" Before asking her to elaborate I thought back to a conversation early on in our relationship that w