This past week on June 23rd, Nick and I celebrated our 2nd Wedding Anniversary! It's hard to believe that 2 years have gone by since we got married, time has truly flown by. Nick and I started a tradition last year that we plan to repeat for each of our anniversary's. On our wedding day a friend of ours gave Nick $50 and told him to take me out for a nice dinner that night. WELL . . .instead of doing that we got Zaxby's which is one my favorites (Nick's too) and took it back to our house. So in keeping the tradition we have Zaxby's for dinner on our anniversary. This year we picked it up and had a little picnic on Wing Deer Park, which was really nice.
Nick and I at Wing Deer Park on Our 2nd Anniversary- June 23, 2009
In celebration of our anniversary Nick and I took a little trip to Gatlinburg to do a little shopping and some hiking. My mother told me when I got married that I should have picked a wedding date later in the year so anniversary trips would be cheaper, but I was determined to be a June bride so Nick and I end up taking trips at peak tourist time every year. This year I got us a good deal on a cabin using VRBO. If you have not used VRBO you should give it a try it is FABULOUS! We rented a cabin called Bearadise- which I think is just so funny. But on VRBO it had lots of pics and great reviews, and we found everything to be as advertised for our stay. Below are a few pics for you to check out . . . 
The Bearadise
Master bedroom
The Catwalk- this lead out to a really neat upper deck
View of the living room
We drove down to the Bearadise Friday after work. The cabin was located up in the mountains but still close enough to all life's necessities (downtown g-burg). One bad note was our Garmin the cut back turns seemed to confuse it and it took us 30 minutes Friday night to get back to our cabin from dinner. I think rain and darkness were also factor but it was still an unnerving experience. Our Garmin has had a few other glitches recently so I think it might be time for a map update.
Saturday we took a hike on Little River Trail located in the Smokey Mountain National Park between Sugarland's and Cades Cove. I had actually hiked there years ago with my parents (1996 to be exact according to my Mom who keeps hiking records). The trails was pretty flat and nicely shades with tree cover, which I was thankful for since it was such a hot day. Nick and I had actually gotten all fancy and packed a huge back pack with a lunch but we did not hike as far as we expected so we lugged a backpack for nothing. Here are a couple of my favorite pics from the hike.
Another pretty spot
Ain’t he cute??
Saturday night we had a nice dinner at Calhoun’s one of our favorite “out-of-town” restaurants. Although we still enjoyed our meal we did find that the overall service at the restaurant had gone down hill and so had some of our favorite menu items. Despite that we did have a FABULOUS dessert- Banana Pudding, but this was not just any Banana Pudding. Instead of the usual vanilla wafers it was made with white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. It was just wonderful, absolutely yummy! I am getting hungry just thinking about it right now.
Sunday we hit the Outlet Malls for a little SHOPPING one of my favorite past times. Now in general I am not a huge outlet shopper I do not feel like you truly get the best deals. They lure you in with that “outlet” word but then everything is still full price or close to it. However on this little outlet excursion we did really well. I got a great deal at the Gap Outlet on some shorts, Nick got several things from Old Navy and they were so cheap I felt like we were stealing or something. We also found some really good deals on kid clothes, but not having any kids yet not being able to pass up a good deal we bought a couple of things for our nephews.
All in all it was a FABULOUS trip and a Happy Anniversary!!
I am happy to be married to Nick, he is truly the love of my life and my best friend. We have had a wonderful 2 years and I look forward to many, many more!
2 comments:
I didn't know you had a blog! Girl, you've been hiding it from me. LOL I saw on FB that you were blogging so I had to go snooping. ;) Wow - was that cabin big enough for you two? Ha ha! I've never heard of VRBO. ??? The pictures from the hike are great. It's good to make traditions like that when you are married. Wade and I have started several over the years with the different holidays and all and it makes celebrating those extra fun, especially when you look back on the prior years. :) Happy Anniversary!
Lol, sorry I held out on you. I just recently decided to go public and have been easing in slowly. Glad to have another reader (besides Nick).
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