Anniversary

So we went to St. George this weekend to celebrate our 1st Anniversary. People say the first year of marriage is hard. I say that getting a good picture of the 2 of us together has been the hardest part. I don't like having my picture taken but I know that our future children will want to see pictures of us when we were hot and in our prime. They're going to be disappointed.

Here we are just leaving Provo. You will notice that Rick's eyes are mostly shut. This was the best picture out of the 6 that we took.

By the time we get from Provo to Spanish Fork I get pretty tuckered out. Napping is my favorite part of road trips. Here I am trying to even out my farmers "tan" but instead I now have a sunburn on half of my face.

Where is the best place to put a Petting Zoo? If you guessed by the gas station in Scipio, you couldn't be more right. If I look confused it's because I am. And my hair looks like that because I had just woken up. See previous picture for proof.

Someday I'm going to trick Rick into getting me a pet goat. It's a dream of mine I've inherited from my Mother.

I wanted to ride him but I don't think he would have enjoyed it very much.

A road trip isn't a road trip if you don't eat a lot of crappy food. Guess which treats are mine and which are Ricks. I'll give you a hint: His "treats" are the gross ones in the picture.

If you look closely you will notice that Chucky is tied to the front of the truck. Makes for a good conversation piece, I guess.

When we got to St. George we went out to eat at a place called Samurai. Being the daring and adventurous people that we are, we ordered sushi. I stand firm in my opinion that sushi is disgusting and makes me want to barf. Of all the sushi I've tried this was the best (because it had crab and not fish) but I still didn't like it. Rick doesn't like sushi either but he loved this kind.

The onion volcano is always a big hit.

Here is where we stayed. I found this place thanks to my good friend Google. It's called the 7 Wives Inn. Rick thinks it was a Polygamists house. I think that a guy married and killed 7 women and you had to figure out which wife in what room with what weapon. I played a lot of Clue as a child. His theory is probably more accurate.

We stayed in the Ada Cottage. It's separate from the 2 main houses and was in it's own little area.

Rick's favorite part was the California King sized bed.

My favorite part was that we weren't in Provo. Also, this huge jetted tub.

We were both really impressed with the breakfast there. Rick was so happy about it that he took an embarrassing amount of pictures of the food.

I wish I had a picture that showed just how tiny and cute that little cup of milk was. I had a picture of me holding it up pretending to drink it but in the picture I had just woken up (really like 40 seconds earlier) and looked like I was one of the 7 murdered wives. You'll just have to use your imagination. Also, the oatmeal was delicious and was enough to feed an elephant.

Rick made me take this picture of him to show off the breakfast area and then this sweet old lady was like "would you like me to take a picture of the both of you?" And I laughed. She must have not had her glasses on to see what kind of shape I was in.

After we checked out we decided to hit the town for some shopping, lunch, and pedicures - plural. A true man gets pedicures with his wife. We also got some sweet new exercising gear.

I'll be honest, the main reason I picked St. George was because when we drove through it on our last road trip I saw a sign for Durango's. This was my favorite place to eat in high school. And it was just as good as I remembered it. And now you can get "wheat" tortillas for only 23 cents more. Good health comes at a price.

Our actual anniversary is tomorrow. That's when we'll be eating year old cake followed by teaching Primary Kids that hate us. It'll be a fun day. Next time you see us feel free to congratulate us on being good at marriage. And if you have comments about how it's been a year and we still haven't mailed our thank you cards, keep it to yourself :)