Well guys, we are back from a whirlwind week of anniversary celebrating and camping. I will post on camping tomorrow, but today I wanted to share a few highlights from our anniversary trip.
Our original plan was to head out to the San Juan Islands for a little overnight, but we finally decided to nix that idea due to rising hotel prices and an incredibly expensive ferry ride for only a one night stay. We dream of staying at the Rosario Resort someday for our anniversary, but we want to go when we can stay for two nights instead of one and don’t have to drive across the state for camping right afterward.
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| Rosario Resort. Orcas Island. San Juans. |
So this year Micah convinced me to go to the tiny ocean town of Westport with him. He has gone to this town to surf since he was in high school, but I have never seen it, so we made the venture out to the coast. Micah surfed for a couple of hours in the morning, while I snuck in a little nap (Is snuck a word? I still can’t figure it out… I feel like “sneaked” is totally awkward). Then we had fun exploring the tiny, desolate little seaside town…
We ate fish and chips for lunch. Pretty much our favorite meal to share anytime we are in a town that overlooks the ocean. We walked through the shops and bought a big bag of fresh salt water taffy. We went for a barefoot run on the beach (leave it to my husband to add a little exercise to our anniversary 🙂 We ate a deliciously huge dinner, shared a bottle of wine we saved from our wedding, opened our first card from our wedding guests (more on that later), and totally devoured our leftover wedding cake. We stayed in a little inn overlooking the ocean and the sweet owner upgraded us to a top floor suite for free since it was our anniversary. It was the best first anniversary I could ask for…
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| Waiting for our fish and chips |
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| Pasta with Gorgonzola Cream Sauce and Steak Medallions = about 3000 calories of goodness |
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| Our banana cake was still delish a year later. Thanks, Sue! |
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| Micah was so excited to finally be able to smear cake in my face without me getting mad! |
I mentioned this last week, but Micah and I decided a few months ago that we always want to get away for our anniversary. Go somewhere special with just the two of us. Now we know that some years this might be complicated – we might have kids, be dealing with sickness, be struggling financially…who knows. But we made a commitment that we think is reasonable… get away. Even if it means finding a deal on a hotel in our own town (hey Groupon!) or staying at a friends’ cabin for the weekend. Some years we might be blessed to do something big (like relive our Hawaiian Honeymoon!); sometimes it might be small and simple. But regardless of the place or the cost, it will be special. Because marriage is special…and hard…and beautiful…and should be celebrated.
I am very thankful for our short, sweet seaside celebration last week and very thankful for the man I got to celebrate with!
