In an exciting conclusion to The Time Kevin Did That Thing Pt.1, we find our hero frantically searching the big city of Boston for some girl receptive to his blue french horn.

Here is where we left Kevin, waiting at the bus station for the girl to arrive.

Disappointed to have found out she took an early bus, Kevin leaves the bus station looking fly in his suit, despite having missed the girl.

At this point, giving up had been discussed, but it was certainly not an option.  It was time to get creative.

It was a hopeless attempt, but he then tried to tell her about this great place to eat called The Super 88 and hope she gives it a try.  No luck, but he did get some beef ‘n’ broccoli.

…this was immediately followed by more walking around the Boston University campus…

He then thought of a genius plan, one that would limit the element of surprise, but not ruin the gesture altogether.  Sharps attempted to place a call to the girl, calling himself “The commodore” and demanding that she arrive at a particular location to await further instruction… her phone was on silent.  Suspicious?

…more hopeless walking punctuated by occasional yelling…

…and eventually it came down to giving up any elaborate scheme, calling her and demanding that she come to him.

Turns out they were close, so it was only a little more walking.

Finally, he found her.  The most salient emotion he felt was disappointment at the anticlimactic ending.

She seemed to appreciate it.

…and then she broke his heart mere days later.

I’ve always been a hopeless romantic.  We all know this… and recently I found someone new to be a hopeless romantic to.  She ran away to Boston for the weekend and I decided to try something really awesome.  This is a photo-essay of the experience, part one of a two part epic miniseries.

The idea was simple, drive 6 hours to meet her when her bus arrives in Boston and give her a blue french horn wearing a suit.  I know, I know– it sounds ridiculous, but if you’ve ever seen How I Met Your Mother, you’d get it.

First, we needed to drive for 6 hours to Boston.  Luckily Elena knew the way.

6 hours is a lot longer than you think sometimes.

We got hungry so we broke into an orchard and stole some apples.  They were delicious.

We then met with Obama to see what he thought of the idea.  He endorsed it.

…and it was then time to suit up, so I had to be fitted for a suit.

I tried on a couple of suits, but I wasn’t sure yet.

I also looked at a couple of shirt/tie combos.  I really liked this one.

Then I think I found a winning combination.

We couldn’t park in the city, so we had to take the subway in.

Somewhere after this my digital camera ran out of batteries, so stay tuned for the second installment of this two part megaseries, when the film from the disposables develops.