My babies

As you can see I'm very proud of my orchids, however, I can't take much credit. I kind of ignore them and they seem to like it. They get watered when they are dry, and they seem to love my guest bedroom window. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a plant to ignore! :)

now two weeks behind

I've been meaning to post about our anniversary since the weekend it happened but just haven't gotten around to it, so here you go! We had a great time going out to eat at a place I had been to for drinks/appetizers with some work friends a month prior and i knew it would be great for dinner because the bar not only includes drinks, but freshly shucked oysters! :) Ian surprised me with staying in a hotel 3 blocks away so we got to skip the friday night commute (It was close to both of our works). I got my hair cut/done before hand, we checked into the hotel and leisurely walked over for our reservations which to me was awesome, its nice to not have to drive 15 minutes to get somewhere! We of course had oysters for our appetizer, got to choose from all over the U.S. so we went with a variety; CA, WA, VA and they were awesome! I had one when I put the cocktail sauce on it it turned out in the shape of a heart! Our meals were phenomenal including our drinks: Mine was a mojito of course and Ian got a classic Tom collins, what we usually get. We had wine with dinner which was really good too. Ian's meal was carolina trout on top of sweet potato puree that was straight from heaven. I got scallops on garlic mashed potatoes with a crawfish sauce that was equally heavenly. We finished with sharing a slice of cheesecake topped with lemon curd and a side of berry sorbet between two macadamia nut cookies. I wish i could have taken pictures of it all but Ian wouldn't let me. :) Also mildly tacky, I'll admit. Anyway, we both decided it was the best meal we've ever had! We will be looking for an excuse to go back again, and might just order the exact same things!! We are happy to be celebrating 5 years of marriage and are anticipating many wonderful years to come! The last picture is the view from the hotel room in the morning. We've been getting a lot of rain lately and it was beautiful to see the steam coming up over the trees!

Next post will for sure be about our visit over the 4th of July. Beth, Chris, Gretchen and Paul are road tripping out here and we are going to have a blast!!

Baltimore (last weekend of course)

Last sunday we decided on a whim to go to Baltimore, so I packed a picnic lunch and we headed off. We found a good parking spot that didn't cost $20 which was exciting. Decided to walk around the harbor. Our first encounter was with a trapeze school practicing their tricks. It was really cool to watch the girls flip around. We continued around the harbor and walked past a cruise that was reasonably priced and not all day. We decided to take it and enjoyed a harbor cruise complete with smelly dead fish. Once we got past that it was pretty enjoyable. It took us all the way out to Fort McHenry (I think). The harbor is huge (as is the Chesapeake Bay). It was cool to see Baltimore from that distance though since we are always looking out at the Harbor. From the picture above you can see that we were quite disappointed we didn't get on the Pirate Ship cruise. I think they were even make people walk the plank! The Domino Sugar sign is a classic Baltimore site. After our cruise, we went to the top of Federal Hill Park with our picnic lunch and enjoyed the scenery (and the food of course as witnessed by Ian). Federal Hill also kind of looks out over the harbor. It was a beautiful, relaxing day. Of course on the trip back we had to stop in Mt. Airy for Jimmie Cone! It looked like it was going to rain and we kept dropping jimmies so for a couple minutes we thought it was raining jimmies!! How cool would that be?! Anyway, we had a good start to summer!
Next up: our 5th anniversary celebration!! Can't believe its been five years already!