Hello Sailor, Tattoo Tuesday

Fremantle is an amazing place, somewhere which I have come to consider quite important to me. Jesse and I spent our first anniversary in Fremantle and since then we have spent a number of sunny Sunday afternoons walking around the streets, lingering in the park or at the foreshore, visiting the sights and eating champagne/beer fuelled lunches at Mad Monk, recently renamed as 'The Monk'. Nowhere is Perth makes me happier than Fremantle and the numerous great memories are something I doubt I will be forgetting an time soon.

Yesterday afternoon Jesse and I were at a typical lunch at Mad Monk, this obviously it was a Tuesday and not a Sunday. Our usual wood fired pizza and pita & dip, along with 2 wines and 2 beers lead to a tattoo discussion. I don't remember exactly how it came up, but Jesse mentioned how we should go get Anchor tattoos. We had discussed it before, I thought it was a nice idea for a 'couple' tattoo, which wasn't so couple-y that I wanted to be sick. So after laughing our heads of at the idea, we decided to go on a search for the tattoo parlour. After about half an hour of searching we finally found '5 Star Tattoos'. We walked in and asked if they had any walk in times available and they did. It took close to an hour of waiting around before we could get in, the guy quickly drew out designed and it was done. Mine being so tiny was super easy; Jesse on the other hand got a little sick. I left for 10 minutes to go get money out and I came back to him being bright green eating a Mars bar and drinking a coke. As you can imagine, I didn't let that little incident slip by without a lot of laughing at Jesse and calling him a baby (we still have no idea why it happened).

Some would say that getting a tattoo together is stupid and something we will come to regret. After 5 years together, a house, a dog, numerous holidays and joint bank accounts, I would say I wouldn't have done something so impulsive unless I was so sure of someone. We didn't get each other’s names, dates of birth or even our anniversary; we got something stupid and sentimental to us. I love it. I love the idea and the story which we have now to tell people. Below is a couple of pictures, hopefully we will get some better ones soon :)