A Pair of Kings: Happy Anniversary to us!

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Happy Anniversary to us!

Yesterday, August 9th, Anna and I celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary. We had a blast the whole day doing a bunch of different things together. We started off the day waking up early and going surfing down from our house off 6th Ave South. After that, we went all out and high-rolled it to Golden Corral for breakfast (after all, it was our anniversary :-). In the afternoon, we each had something special planned. Anna went first and presented me with a scavenger hunt. After I found each clue (they were spread throughout town), she gave me a gift if I was able to answer each successive question. The hunt was a lot of fun and I scored like a little kid on Christmas. At the last stop, we ended up at Filets restaurant over-looking the Intracoastal Waterway. However, they were only serving a light menu, so we ended up at Carraba's (even though we ate there a few days ago when in Ohio). Yeah, kinda ordinary for an anniversary dinner, but it doesn't matter where you go, it only matters who you're with. After dinner, it was my turn. I took Anna to the spot on the beach where we got married and presented her with an anniversary band she's wanted for a long while. This particular band is exactly like her wedding band (she liked the idea of having two identical bands on each side of her engagement ring). There's a funny story to this, though. About two months ago she sent her wedding band out to get serviced. Before it was ready to be picked up at the jewelers, I went by myself and bought her the anniversary band. They sent it out to get sized. About a week or so later, Anna goes and picks up what she believes is her wedding band, but is actually the new anniversary band :-( Turns out the jeweler gave her the wrong ring. Of course Anna never knew this, because the two rings are identical. I didn't find out until a couple weeks later when I called to see if her new ring was in from being re-sized. When I read off the order number from the receipt of the ring I had just recently bought (which Anna wasn't supposed to know about), they told me she had already picked it up. She never did realize any of this though, so I went and picked up her wedding band instead. For the past couple of weeks I kept joking with her telling her she already had her anniversary gift, but she never did figure it out. All of this will explain the video below. At the end of the video, Anna still looks confused as I hadn't presented her with the ring yet. She still wasn't sure if I got it for her as I forgot to take it out of the pouch in the back of my beach chair, and couldn't do so until I stopped taking the video. After that, we ate cupcakes made by Cakes by the Sea, who made our wedding cake last summer.

Boards loaded and ready to go...