Sunday, August 24, 2008

Happy Anniversary, Bay-BEEEE!



Hubby and I celebrated three blissful years of marriage yesterday.

"WHAAAAAT????", you say? "You and Hubby, hip oldsters that you are, have only been married THREE years????"

Well, we've known each other and been a couple for a lot longer than 3 years. We dated for a
L O N G time and then we moved in together (living in sin) and then we tied the knot in Las Vegas at the Forever Grand Chapel located in the fabulous MGM Grand Resort and Casino on August 23rd, 2005.

We had a great wedding. We got married exactly how we wanted to in a place we love to visit. It wasn't cheesy Las Vegas, it was actually a very nice ceremony in a very nice chapel, surrounded by many people that we love who were there to help us celebrate.

We had two Las Vegas touches, one traditional and one very "now". We got to pick our own music for the ceremony and the song we picked for our "exit as the new couple" was a classic recording of Frank Sinatra singing "Fly Me to the Moon" -- fabulous!

The "now" piece was a web-cast of the wedding that allowed people that did not come to the wedding to watch us through that "interweb" thing. That was great!
It has been a great three years and things only get better.

Our tradition is that Hubby plans our anniversary celebration for the odd years and I plan it for the even years.

Yesterday, Hubby proved he did a lot of really great planning!

We drove to Cannon Falls (about one hour south of Minneapolis) and we played a really fun and challenging round of golf at Gopher Hills.


The front 9 holes is set up as a "links" style course -- wide open spaces, lots of natural grasses, not much water. The photo to the right is of the front 9.


The back 9 holes is a more traditional course -- lots of trees, doglegs and elevation.



It was a perfect day -- sunny, warm, but not too hot. We played some holes brilliantly, some -- not so much.


After golf, we drove to Red Wing -- a very charming town on the banks of the Mississippi River town -- where we spent the night.




We took a walk down to the main river launch in the middle of the town, where lots of other folks were watching a beautiful sunset.


The American Queen riverboat had just launched from Red Wing and was taking its passengers down to St. Louis


We had a fantastic meal at a restaurant called Norton's and the Lucky Cat Lounge. Hubby had a very flavorful Cuban pork roast and I had grilled salmon. Deeelish!

Today, we woke up, had a little coffee before we got on the rode and then drove about 30 minutes to Prescott, Wisconsin, where my sister and brother-in-law keep their boat.

We went on a long, lazy river ride from Prescott to Afton for lunch. We all had a wonderful time enjoying the day.

Hubby and I both got a chance to really relax with each other and just to just "enjoy".

Now, I have 364 days to plan Anniversary #4....

I love you Choppy...

3 comments:

Sunshine said...

What a lovely anniversary! Thanks for the good pictures.
Best wishes for planning many more happy anniversaries.
If you run the Victory 10K, look for Sweet Pea and me: the slow ones in the red running shoes.

Don said...

Congratulations on your third anniversary! Sounds like a wonderful day.

Hubby done good - you can tell him so :-)

Dori said...

Happy Anniversary, Amy! I didn't know you well then, but I remember when you got married.