You deserve to be with Paula and have experiences like this every day. Beautiful piece of writing. I used to do things like that many years ago. The last place I did that was the oldest hotel in England, with someone special to me at the time, over 20 years ago. Sadly, this happened to it recently
Exeter fire: Royal Clarence Hotel collapses in blaze - BBC News. I don't think anything like that will happen again in my life.