With Six You Get Higher Appreciation

Can you believe this happened six years ago today (January 18)?  (as we are told by Just Jared and I Heart Jake, anyway)

Jake driving Austin's Toyota Tundra while stopping at Beverly Hills Juice for liquid libation.

I can just hear Steve Urkel now:  "You going to drink all that?"

Knowing now how Jake and his team misguide on dates, it's hard to say for sure that this "historic" day did occur on January 18, but since that is what we're given, well, we're going to take it.

Perhaps this was a light breakfast before lunch?   The Famous Lunch that WAS.....

The. Sushi. Lunch.

Yes.  Shhhhh. 

Behold.

Jake trying to hold back his knowing smirk,

Austin always in the background, mostly hidden in the photos that he is in, but visible enough. Despite the obstructions and distractions of Adam Levine, Cigarette Guy, The PR-Type old Man, Gene Hong, hugs, mini-coup type car, yakking Jake not even looking at his guy, motorcycles, and more hugs.

It was a special time, one which many of us mis-interpreted back at the beginning of 2012, to mean more open-ness, when in reality, our fave guys were saying "We're still together" but "Sayanara for now."

We look back at these photos with a higher appreciation for we knew not what the future would forehold.

Hey angel
Do you know the reasons why
We look up to the sky?
Hey angel
Do you look at us and laugh
When we hold on to the past?
Hey angel

Hey Angel - by One Direction, lyrics by

Julian C. Bunetta, Jamie Scott Baylin and John Henry Ryan

pic source:  Giphy, IHJ, Vulture
our playlist:  Hey Angel - One Direction
                     California Day - Starland Vocal Band
                     Beautiful Day - U2