We left our camera at home, so I don't have many pics of our trip. Our primary objective was to relax, not to sight see. We just went up to Lookout Mountain, which, while very pretty, was someplace we've been before and will likely go again. In fact, the B&B where we stayed was the same place we celebrated our fifth anniversary, just two months before Catherine was born. It's crazy to think that last time we were there, we were CHILDLESS. Ha, that seems like a lifetime ago!
We ate some yummy food, bought new throw pillows for our couch (cause that's normal), took a few short walks, and saw TWO movies. Anyone who has raised small children knows how difficult it is to go see a movie (without, oh, a week's worth of planning and the sale of a kidney to pay a sitter). So to see two in twenty-four hours, well, wow.
*By the way, we really love our sitter and she doesn't overcharge us at all. She is wonderful and worth every penny. And I do still have all my organs. I was merely hyperbolizing - a movie for two is much more expensive than the price of two tickets when you have to factor that in.
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| The Chanticleer Inn on Lookout Mountain - Can't recommend it highly enough. It is so beautiful and relaxing! Watching hummingbirds have their breakfast beside you? Yes please! And boy, can those ladies cook! |
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| The view from Sunset Rock in Lookout Mountain. Formerly a lookout point for the confederate army, it now mostly serves as a place for high school couples to hook up, along as the scene of an occasional engagement. Yay for the old folks crashing the party! |
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| I gotta admit, it was pretty romantic. Except that the guy who was part of the couple next to us was seriously munching corn on the cob as snack food. That was a little odd. |
When our actual anniversary rolled around the next Wednesday, we didn't have too much celebrating left in us. Russell came home from work with sparkling cider and a bouquet of roses for me and a single rose for each of the girls.
Then Russell kindly suggested that I shouldn't have to cook dinner on my anniversary, so we took the kids to Cracker Barrel to celebrate. It might not be a romantic, quiet, candlelit table for two kind of place, but it's quick and the kids love the food. So no one complained and I didn't have to cook or clean up. Anniversary for the win!
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| Love the rocking chairs. They found a pink one that was just their size. Well, for ONE of them. :) |
We came back home and sipped the sparkling cider with the girls and showed them photos from our wedding day. Catherine was fascinated, but Caroline was quite upset that she and her sister weren't in any of the pictures. "Before you were born" isn't really something a two-year-old can grasp.
Anyway, it was a ton of fun and a great way to celebrate the end of our ninth year of marriage. That decade is just around the corner! (Hint, hint, honey???) Lots of love to go around!
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