It started the night before our anniversary, Thursday, December 27th. The family I work for gave us some certificates for a 5 course tasting menu at a super nice restaurant as an early Christmas present. I saved it for our anniversary since it was something really special. We ate amazing food, and Scott's face after taking his first bite was priceless.... I should mention that his first bite was a piece of bread!
Our menu, which did not help us know what to expect next!
Scott getting ready to eat his Seared Barramundi (course 3)
Happiest, full bellied Scott I've ever seen :)
Our delicious dessert (course 5)
The next morning, Scott got out of the shower to his small anniversary surprise.
And surprise me with these when he came home from work. They're dried, which means I get to enjoy them for a super long time!
We got a piece of cheesecake from the Cheesecake factory and called it a night so that we could be up in time for our bus to Vancouver the next morning.
This was our hotel. We were on the 27th floor!
We got to our hotel and were super excited for our awesome room.
And couldn't get enough of our amazing view, during the day.
Or at night.
We got a nice welcoming gift of some delicious chocolates!
And got to have a cool card key
We went for a walk and found a music store, I found hybrid pianos, and fell in love. I want one so bad! So much better than the nicest digital piano.
Our walk continued and we found these lights on the front of a hospital.
We woke up the next morning to this accident, and Scott took ten billion pictures, everyone crawled out safe.
We couldn't find gas stations anywhere in the city, but we found one out in the water! Good thing we didn't need gas, cause it may have caused some water damage.
Here are some pictures from our foot-travel sight seeing we did the second day:
The olympic cauldron
I thought he looked like a lego whale
One of the Fairmont's. The top square was what looked like an amazing 2 story suite.
North Vancouver
A steam powered clock.
The next day (NYE) we decided to rent a car and drove to Stanley Park.
Here are some pictures of my handsome husband from the day.
And the beautiful places we got to be
Saw some totem polls.
And a bridge Scott was in love with
A hollow tree
A beach.
And the city
The night before we had heard an extremely loud noise and were really startled, but no one around us seemed to think anything of it, which really confused us. It sounded like a cannon. So when we found this the next day, it made a lot more sense.
When it got dark, Scott took me to see the Christmas lights in the park since I had told him I really wanted to do that.
They were pretty cool, but it was much smaller than expected.
Scott also got me some roasted chestnuts since I had been telling him how I love them so much and haven't had them since a winter I was in France when I was super little. The smell brought back so many memories! I loved them, Scott not so much, so I ate almost all of them on my own.
We got some take out sushi so we could eat in our room with our view that we couldn't get enough of. And my goodness, was it delicious sushi, we could only eat half of it!
The next day, we went on a final walk and enjoyed the beautiful, clean city of Vancouver one more time. We also thought we should at least get one picture that had both of us in it since it was our anniversary trip.
We were both ready to go home, even though we had an amazing time and would miss our hotel. What an unforgettable anniversary!
So, after 2 years, what have I learned from my marriage to this wonderful man??
I learned that I can never be too patient or too understanding. Marriage forces you to give the other the benefit of the doubt, to humble yourself, to become more patient than you thought you could be, to try and look at things from the other's perspective. I am very lacking on all of those things, but luckily, marriage also teaches you to be forgiving, and Scott is the most forgiving person I have EVER met.
I learned that you can feel at home, no matter where you are, if your highest commitment is to your spouse and you have them by your side. I have come to understand myself better, and have become a better person because of him. He helps me strive to do what's right, at ALL times.
I am so thankful that I made the decision to marry Scott 2 years ago. It has been the smartest decision I have ever made.
