Our Anniversary!!!

We had the most amazing anniversary a little over a month ago! Richard, being the wonderful surpriser that he is, once again wouldn't tell me a thing...not even the slightest hint of a hint...about the plans he had for our anniversary. (I love that about him) He was so excited about his plans, and would ask me every day if I was excited for our anniversary too. I would always say yes, and try to get him to tell me why I should be excited, or pull out some kind of a hint, but he would always catch himself before he caved. He told me later that the only way he could keep it a secret was by telling EVERYONE else about his plans, so that he could share his excitement. Smart man!

So, with that very long introduction...let me tell you a little about our anniversary celebration!

I woke up the morning of our anniversary in a panic, because the night before, I had realized that Richard had been talking about going skydiving on our anniversary, and had been wanting to do that for the past couple of years... I was pretty worried that he had planned on doing that, and not given me any time to mentally prepare for it. But I should have known better - he wouldn't do that! When I got up and went to the kitchen, this is what I saw:

Two beautiful roses for two beautiful years, a gift certificate to an Indian restaurant in San Francisco, and two tickets to see.... WICKED!!!!! I was so happy and excited, I felt like I wanted to cry! This man KNOWS how to speak my love language! :) I have been wanting to see Wicked for the past couple of years, and we finally got to go!!!

Here are some pictures of our exciting adventure!

Driving into San Fran - the Bay Bridge

the city!

clam chowder on pier 39!

My favorite!!!

On the end of the pier! (you can kind of see Alcatraz in the background)

Alcatraz

We're happy!


After exploring the pier for awhile, we decided to go to Ripley's Believe it or Not museum...and that was quite the experience! I recommend it to anyone - it definitely not your stereotypical museum with artifacts that are semi interesting...this is a museum of weirdness - I think every single exhibit was weird and out-of-the-ordinary (hence the name) and very interesting.

A life-sized moose made out of nails!

These are carpenter ants with faces of celebrities painted onto them...

A 10-foot model of a rocket ship, made entirely of toothpicks!

I felt like I could have spent a lot more time there than we did, but we had to hurry through so that we could get to dinner and then the main attraction: Wicked! Unfortunately, our camera ran out of batteries, so we didn't get any pictures of the Indian restaurant, which was pretty unique... (we had to save the last bit of life in the camera to get a picture at the show).

Outside the Orpheum theater!!!

Us being so happy after the show!
(I'm so bummed that this is the only picture we got, and it is blurry - our noses look scary!)

We had a wonderful time watching Wicked, and Richard was surprised that he actually enjoyed it too! He had only heard the song "popular" from the soundtrack beforehand, so he was worried that it was going to be some ridiculous ditzy girly play, but he said he was pleasantly surprised. :) I LOVED every second of it...oh my...It was so witty, and the performers did such an amazing job. What a wonderful anniversary date! Thank you honey!


The next day (Sunday) was our actual anniversary, and we had a low-key day. This was my present to Richard (minus the Roses):

Homemade hazelnut truffles
(presented in homemade boxes...which I was kind of proud of)

Wife-made breakfast - Richard's favorite: crepes with peaches, strawberries, whipped cream and nutella!

Happy anniversary honey! Thanks for 2 of the most amazing years of my life!