Thank you all so much for the congratulations and well-wishes on our anniversary! We are so lucky to have such sweet family and friends.
We had a really nice anniversary weekend – it was perfect! We both had to work Saturday for a few hours in the morning and early afternoon, but after work Ted picked me up and we spent the rest of the afternoon at EnterTRAINment Junction, a model train museum in northern Cincinnati up near West Chester. We both like model trains so it was neat to walk through miles of track and see all the detail that is put into the models, scenery, and even the little people in the models. Hidden throughout the models and in the scenery were tiny halloween pumpkins and a number of little dinosaurs that you could try to locate, which was a fun challenge to try to find them all. There were also a lot of train fun facts and quizzes. We enjoyed the museum a lot and thought it was a lot of fun to check out such an interesting hobby. It’s something we’d both like to get into one day – in like 50 years when we’re rich and old and super boring, but still absurdly happy (we hope!).
For dinner we tried to finally get in at the fancy, delicious Italian restaurant Bella Luna (it always wins at the Taste of Cincinnati festival) but the wait was over two and a half hours. Lesson learned. So our second choice was Montgomery Inn Boathouse downtown on the river between Cincinnati and Newport, KY. It’s a beautiful location with a gorgeous view and the food is always fantastic – a crowd favorite and a nice place to celebrate something like an anniversary. Because there was a wait there too, though certainly not as long, we enjoyed a tasty drink of Jim Beam Red Stag at the bar and then dined on ribs and duck for dinner with a pretty backdrop of the downtown skyline and the night time city lights reflecting off the river. Our food was completely delicious as usual and it was so nice to just spend time together, talking and enjoying each other without all the distractions of busy schedules and technology.
We had originally intended to try to catch a movie after dinner, likely 50/50 or The Help, but damn, we’re getting old and because of how far away pretty much every movie theatre in the city is from our apartment and the late show times, we pansy’d out when we realized it would be well past 1 a.m. by the time we got home. We’re lame, we know. But even at the ripe old age of 25, 1:30 a.m. is well past my bedtime! So instead we rented the new Transformers movie and came home.
We broke out our crystal toasting flutes and cake service set from our wedding, pulled out our wedding cake topper, and played our first dance song through the speakers in the living room. We danced to our first dance song, shared slices of cherry cake from the top layer of our wedding cake (and wow was it incredibly delicious for having been frozen for a year!! SO good!!) and toasted to our first year of marriage with a bottle of our favorite wedding wine from Door County. We watched Transformers until I fell asleep, which was approximately 20 minutes into the movie, as usual. It was a really lovely night.
On Sunday Ted had to head in to work for a few hours again, but I had the day off so we went to mass together, did our weekly grocery shopping together, and then I stopped in at the Cincinnati Art Museum to check out the new Art Deco exhibit – fashions and design from the 1920s. Obviously, I couldn’t pass this up! I adore1920s fashion. Anybody want to buy me a sweet pair of t-strap heels and a cloche hat? Please! It was a beautiful exhibit! But then again the whole Cincinnati Art Museum is pretty incredible! We spent the rest of the day watching football and cheering on our Packers.
How did we get so lucky? :-)
