It is quite impossible to imagine that Dan and I are already celebrating our second wedding anniversary! The past two years have absolutely flown by, but we have enjoyed every moment. It seriously seems like yesterday when we were celebrating on June 13, 2009 with our friends and family.
This year's anniversary celebration was all planned by Dan himself. And as you'll see, he deserves major props because it was a great weekend! We had a great time. Seriously. We both blocked school and work out of our minds for a few days and spent time together and it was wonderful. Here are a few pics we took along the way.
Dan had given me no information about what we were to be doing, but told me to pack a bag for one night for Friday night. Soon after he I got home from class and he got home from work, we got in the car and drove a short two miles down the road to the Galt House, a hotel that overlooks the Ohio River downtown. This just happened to be where we stayed the night we got married, so it was fun to return for our anniversary.
At the very top of one of the towers in the hotel, 25 stories up to be exact, there is a restaurant with a revolving floor. Dan had made reservations for us to eat there, so we got settled into our monstrous room and took the elevator to the very top. Rivue is a place neither of us had been, so we were excited to go there. We sat on one of the revolving floors. (If you know me, you know I have a horrible case of motion sickness, so I was nervous about this.) The floor revolves at a very slow pace. It took us a little over 30 minutes to make a full rotation. There are huge windows with wonderful views of downtown.
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| For the first time in my life I ordered a beef filet. It was most delicous! |
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| Dan got a steak and said it was very good as well. |
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| We were given this dessert in celebration of our anniversary. Yum! Layers of chocolate cake, strawberries, lemon curd, and whipped cream. |
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| In addition to dessert, a candy cart was brought over and we were given a selection of candies to eat. |
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| The candy cart had chocolate covered strawberries, a peanut brittle, turtles, candy covered almonds, and candied fruit slices (orange slices, mom). |
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Our waiter, Carl, snapped this photo of us before we left. Rivue was a great chocie for celebrating! |
Saturday morning I enjoyed a one-hour massage at the hotel's spa. Thanks Dan! We only were able to stay in the hotel one night because of some dumb teacher's conference that was being held there. There weren't any rooms available for Saturday night. But we still had a great rest of the weekend!
Dan loves his Chik-fil-A! (okay, I do too; I can't lie.) It seemed like a good anniversary lunch to us.
After an afternoon of running some errands and just hanging out, we ordered pizza from Sicilian. Good stuff!
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| After pizza, we enjoyed playing scrabble together. We ended the game early because it was taking so long. I guess I won because I was ahead when we stopped playing. (I think Dan wanted to stop the game b/c he had no hope of winning.) |
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| Sunday we walked to Central Park and played some tennis. The weather was perfect, and I think my body is still sore from it. I think Dan got his share of entertainment for the day, as I am NO GOOD at tennis. |
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| I asked Dan what he wanted for dinner on Monday, our actual anniversary, and he said chicken parmesan. I had never made this before, so of course I went straight to my source for most things food related: foodnetwork.com. I ended up making the sauce from scratch and we both thought it turned out pretty well. |
While we ate dinner on Monday night, we enjoyed watching our wedding video. This was the first time we had watched it since our wedding. We enjoyed being spectators at our own wedding. It was a good reminder of our supportive family and friends and our commitment to each other.
We were very sad to see our anniversary weekend go. We agreed that it is unfortunate we can't spend every weekend this way. But we had to face reality at some point, or as Karen says, go back to the "real world." But each day is special, even without nice restaurants, because we are spending it together!
Happy Anniversary!
i loved this.
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