Our 5th Anniversary:)

Last weekend we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary:) While the actual anniversary day was spent at a baby shower followed by our nephew Finn's first birthday party, we had made plans for Sunday...into Monday! Yay! One of Trav's clients was attending a camp up in Rhinebeck, NY and the boy's mother had asked Trav if he'd go up there to meet with the counselors and folks who'd be working with the boy so we made an overnight of it...sans children--so nice. That was actually our first time without children since Neko was born. Granted, we've had a few nights out here and there for a concert or wedding but we always woke up to our responsibilities (children). This time we got to sleep in (well, a little!)

The kids happily stayed at my parents. Rhinebeck is just over an hour from my parents so we enjoyed our nice quiet, no-questions coming from the back seat drive up, parked our car at our B and B (too early to check-in) and walked into town for lunch. Since we didn't take any pictures, I'll be creative here...

Here's where the picture of the restaurant would be...a neat old church building turned restaurant with outside seating. We ate in this lovely deck-ish area beside an opening overflowing with flowers. We each had a glass of wine. I felt tipsy. Cheap date!

There's the quirky guy at the next table on a seemingly blind date with a younger, fitter woman who seems...stuck. The waiter approaches and introduces himself. "Where are you from?" the weird man asks the server who didn't even cross my mind as being from anywhere... "Chile" he responds. The weird man says, "now I hear there's differing ways of pronouncing that...Chillay?" "Cheeelay"....poor lady...

After lunch we walked around a little, in and out of a few shops then went back to the B &B.

This is a picture of us napping at 3:02 in the afternoon. (Check-in was 3:00)

4:00ish. Wake-up, hangover headache (couldn't have been, could it? Too much sun?) No afternoon tea to be had at the place (what?) but it was time to head out anyway. We got directions from the lady there to a park called Poet's Walk which I didn't know much about but had read a few reviews that mentioned it was pleasant.

This is a picture of us parking the car between CVS and the Coffee/Tea shop. Trav gets the beverages. I get the headache medicine. I never take medicine. I never get headaches. Caffeine and drugs ingested. Oh, and how could I forget the two big cookies Trav picked up! Don't they look delicious!

Beautiful drive to the park. When coffee and tea is gone, we're off. Here's a picture of me reading the map at the entrance to make a game plan. Looks like the whole loop is around 2 miles. Nothing we can't handle. Plus there's supposed to be nice views of the Hudson:)

Here's us walking on the trail through the meadow. There's the big gazebo, rustic, branchy;) Heading down the trail into the woods...ahhhh, trees, shade, birds, smells like the woods:) Here's a picture of Travis noticing goldfinches. There's one of me pointing to a "bird"...Here's us winding down and then this one is my favorite so far. It's us, sitting beside each other, in the woods, on a bench. Only just nature around us to look at and hear and smell. Only each other's company to keep. So nice. This is me not wanting to leave that bench especially after thinking that there was a backpack in the woods behind us. Does that look like a backpack to you? Long story....Bad eyes...

And here's a picture of that nice couple making out in the next gazebo overlooking the Hudson. Maybe it was there anniversary too. This is us just looking out at the river talking about bridges. And onward. Out of the woods. Up the trail. Fabulous! Another bench. This time in the sun. Here's a picture of us sitting. Alone. Together. Again. So Nice:) Here's me wearing Trav's sweaty old hat to block the sun. Here's a picture that shows the beautiful light at nearly 7pm...Here's me being surprised that it's already 7! Here's us leaving, Trav pointing at more goldfinches. The soda can beneath the bench. Should have picked it up. Here's us missing the road but enjoying the other road trusting it will take us back to where we needed to be, which it did. Here's one of us having our conversation over whether to go straight to dinner of whether to shower first? Here's me shower----oops! You weren't supposed to see that!

Thai for dinner. Lovely garden. No mangoes and sticky rice. But sticky rice and other treats instead. Jacuzzi. Bed. Here's a picture of the clock showing 11:09, nine minutes past my requested bedtime. Not bad!!

Down for breakfast and out to the camp in the morning after picking up a few novel toys in one of the shops, along with a magazine and book for me to pass my time at camp. Here's me sitting under a shady tree at the waterfront, wishing I could jump into the water. Here's us eating pizza before heading back home. So nice. So nice. We need to do that more often.

Here's the Facebook Post that I didn't post: Spent the last two days without kids, hanging out with this really great guy, handsome, too! Best part about it is that when I got home, turns out he lives in the same house as me. Apparently we married each other a few years back, had a couple kids...

And so the story goes. We need to do that more often:)