This weekend Matt and I have been celebrating our first anniversary. We both agree it was a perfect first year to start out our marriage. Sunday, August 2nd was our anniversary and we started it off by sleeping in! We woke up ready to go exercise, ate breakfast.. and then went back to bed, haha. We woke back up around 10:30 and got ready for the day. After dropping Molly off over at Matt's parents house, we began our day with Taco Bell for lunch. Sounds funny I know but we both love Taco Bell and never eat it so we had that on our anniversary.
After Taco Bell we headed downtown to go to the aquarium. I used to go to the aquarium all the time when it opened and it was fantastic, I would always go when it wasn't crowded. One time that it used to not be crowded was Sunday afternoons. Apparently that isn't the case anymore. It was ridiculously crowded. And we ended up spending more money than we could have. I found out too late that if you buy a combo ticket (aquarium + Titanic exhibit) online it is $31.50. If you buy the ticket at the aquarium it is $34. If you buy the aquarium ticket outside and the Titanic ticket inside, it is $35 (which is what we did). What the heck? The Titanic exhibit was great but the rest of the aquarium was really too crowded to enjoy.
Us at the aquarium
This is awful, this is one of those obligatory photos they make you take to try to get you to buy them. Now you can view them online. This is us on the Titanic! We try to skip these but sometimes they just make you.After the aquarium we walked across the street and checked into our hotel, Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Atlanta. As I opened the door to our room I was overwhelmed with the smell of cigarette smoke - ew!! I called downstairs and we got a new room right away, thank goodness. It was a really nice room and I'm glad we stayed down there. We relaxed for a while and then got ready for our dinner out at Lola. Lola is a restaurant I found online in Buckhead that specializes in bellinis and tapas. I loved it! I really can't wait to go back! We also had a couple on their first date sitting directly next to us so it was kind of funny to listen (I couldn't help it). "What's your favorite food? Seen any good movies lately? How many siblings do you have?" hehe. One thing I really liked about the dinner was that it lasted 2 hours and usually we are in and out way too quickly. After dinner we ate the top of our wedding cake! It was actually delicious!!
Ready for dinner!
Getting ready to eat the cake
Year old cake!
Yum!!
What the cake looked like last yearThis morning we slept in and then went and did some shopping. We found some great deals at Atlantic Station including a super cute pair of shoes for $2.99 :) After shopping we headed over to Matt's parents house to pick up Molly. Apparently she spent the whole time looking for us and whimpered a lot. Poor girl, we were so excited to see her. Now it's back to semi-reality. I have one more day off then it's back to work on Wednesday.
$2.99 shoes :)Oh and for our anniversary Matt got me two gifts, one was a wall clock, pictured below. Apparently that is the 'new' traditional first year anniversary gift. He also had one of my grandfather's paintings framed but it is still at the framers so I can't take a picture yet.
We also went to Amicalola Falls on Saturday:
Molly also made the trip up and down the 400+ stairs
5 comments:
happy anniversary!! It looks like it was a good one.
Where did you get the shoes?
thanks lb! i got the shoes at old navy. they were the last pair that looked like that at the one in atlantic station so i don't know how easy they would be to find. but worth looking for the deal :)
Sounds like it was a great anniversary weekend - may there be many more in your future!
Wow does time fly. Congratulations!!!!
You know, people thought we were weird when we said we were going to eat the top of our cake a year later! It ended up getting thrown away :( I'm glad you guys had such a great first year and first anniversary!!
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