Anniversary Trip

As I'm sure you can gather by the previous post, we had a great trip for our anniversary. It's the first time we've been able to just go where we wanted for the fun of it since we got married. Every other time we've left town it was to visit family for the holidays or go to a wedding or move. It was nice to make our own plan and just go. The timing worked out great, the weather was beautiful when it needed to be, and the money made it!

We left Thursday (later than we planned, but that's nothing new!) We stopped in my hubby's old college town for dinner with a couple of friends. He went to UF and as you may know they won yet another championship last week. It always fun to drive through a college town, but right after a championship...the whole town just has an extra buzz. After dinner, we continued down to Orlando.
Friday we went to Disney's Animal Kingdom. Neither of us had been to that park before. It was really neat. If you like the zoo and theme parks, you will LOVE it. That's us, in the pic, in front of a waterfall. We spent so much time just walking around, enjoying the animals and the sun and all the greenery. My favorite part was probably the safari. They have a "ride" that loads you up on an open bus--it's not on a track or anything--and drives you through a preserve of African animals. The weather was perfect and all the animals were out enjoying it. We had to stop at one point to let what looked like a bull cross the road we were on! And it wasn't like the zoo where there's only a couple of animals per exhibit. Oh no...there were LOTs of most of them, and up close. And many of them were hanging out together. There are so many pictures I want to post! I can only get a few. But you can see how close everything was!

Can you see the rhinos(UL), giraffes(UR), and monkeys(L)? The monkeys weren't on the safari. They were just off the pathway in the middle of the park. No ride, no line, just here, hangin out. How cool is that?!

Anyhoo...after the day at the park, we met up with my brother and his girlfriend for dinner. He just moved to Orlando a week before we got there. We had a great visit, as usual. I don't get to see him all that often, so it's always nice to spend time with family.

Saturday, we headed up to Jacksonville to see the Lion King. I talked about that last time, though. It's awesome and beautiful and inspiring. If you ever have the chance, really to see anything Broadway, GO! I've been about a dozen times to Broadway shows, either in New York or on tour, and it never fails to impress. Every show I've seen has something memorable and impressive about it.

We came home to our lonely kitty who missed us dearly. We watched our favorite TV show, 24, and busted out our wedding cake. I got out our unity candle, our cake topper, and my veil. We ate our cake and looked through our album. We had a great wedding. It was so fun. It was really fun to reminisce.