Let's get happy!

On Saturday morning I got an SMS message from S. inviting me to join her for a tour of a gas-fired power plant near where we used to live. It was part of a weekend-long architecture and public-space appreciation event which happens once a year and which has buildings across the city which are normally off limits open to the public.
Our mood was ebullient and we ended up spending the entire day together. After the power plant tour we decided to go to a streetcar yard in the west end but first went to pick up her son V who was at a park planting trees with his Cub Scout troupe. He did not want to come with us so we dropped him at home and headed off, top down on my new Jeep and had a fantastic visit at the car barn. We made an impression on one of our hosts who singled us out and offered us a private tour of the control room and the software they use to track all the streetcars in the city.
After we left the barn we went to a pub and had a couple beers and chicken wings and then S. wanted to get groceries so we hopped back in the car and drove. I was playing the Cure on the stereo and Doing the Unstuck came on and I cranked it up and I looked over at S. whose hair was blowing back in the breeze of the topless Jeep and I saw tears streaming down her face. We both missed each other so badly then and we were thinking the same thing at that moment, how did we let it slip away? For that moment in the Jeep the years of fighting and tears and anger and frustration that was essentially our entire relationship melted away and disappeared, replaced by boundless love and joy.

It's a perfect day for doing the unstuck
For dancing like you can't hear the beat
And you don't give a further thought
To things like feet
Let's get happy!