On top of the Twin Towers 1998
This is my most favourite picture of Tash, she looks very angelic, but was actually being a bit of a shit at the time. The trip to New York was our first together, it was also the first time I met Ben - It was also the first time that Tash realised that it is often funnier to observe people struggling to comprehend my sense of humour, than what I am actually saying, Ben is much better acclimatised to me now I am happy to report. I had great plans for this being a "dirty weekend", but she was having none of it, wanting to shop rather than umm, well you know, the things that you do when in a new relationship. This is probably why this is such a good picture, unacquainted feelings. She was still very feisty at the time and I had planned to declare my love for her on this trip, but was so worried about her reaction that I had spent many weeks prior formulating a plan with a work colleague "If you tell her on the plane on the way back, then she cannot go anywhere" he advised, in the end I got drunk and whispered it in her ear one night when we were out with Ben, she didn't punch me as I feared, or storm off, but she did ignore me. In the curious way I process things, I took this to be a positive response.