We didn’t expect to

Eat a ridiculous amount of food during our fancy anniversary dinner. No dessert for us this time.

Be so stressed out on my day off. I opened the refrigerator and it was oddly, uh, not on.

Ask various home improvement stores if they could deliver a new refrigerator if we bought one like, right now. They couldn’t; their deliveries had already gone out for the day, which we should have known.

Realize that the fridge was fine (thank goodness!), but that somewhere in our kitchen renovation, an electrical problem emerged.

Call for an electrician to come in as soon as possible to assess the problem and pay him $450 to make sure our house didn’t burn down.

Put aside other plans of meandering around the used book store and getting ice cream in favor of making sure our house didn’t burn down.

Borrow six books from the library in one day between the two of us.

Have a terrible night of sleep at JG’s parents’ lake house because Ted was so excited about the other dog in the house that he would not stop moving around our foldout couch mattress, no, not even for a minute at 3am, so help us.

Go kayaking on the lake before the sky turned on us.

Persevere on the beach through the wind and scary clouds until the rain finally came and chased us away.

Walk back down to the lake after dinner to see a quiet, mellow sunset.

Have gorgeous beach weather the next day such that JG to swim across the lake for fun.

Finish a book apiece.

Become so brown (me) and red (him) from the sun.

Be relieved that the fridge was still running when we got home.

Unpack right away — a shocker, at least for me — and do two loads of laundry.

Remember the good times about the weekend much more immediately than the bumpy surprises.