Since this year marks both our one-year wedding anniversary and our 10-year together anniversary, we figured we’d celebrate twice. Especially since we’ve never celebrated an anniversary before (one year we had a 7-year itch party…). I have to say, I’m pretty into this and I think we’ll have to make it a regular event (yearly, I’d say). On August 5 (our actual wedding anniversary) we spent our last few hours of a WONDERFUL visit with our dear friends Katie and Scott. Tyler and I stopped at a small city on the river on our way back from dropping them off at the airport and sat on a bench along the water. We got a piece of cheesecake and put a little bride and groom on top and pretended it was the top tier of our wedding cake. I think that’s waiting for us in someone’s freezer. It’ll be especially tasty on our second anniversary. Maybe it’s lucky to throw it away or feed it to birds???
The next weekend we took an overnight trip to Cochem, a nearby city on the Mosel river. It’s in a little valley with vineyard-covered hillsides and a big, beautiful castle. We spent the evening wandering the charming streets and had a lovely meal out. In the morning we went to Burg Eltz (Rick Steves’ favorite castle in Europe), which has been left intact for 700 years and is furnished as it was 500 years ago. It sits all alone in a forest, which you can hike through. Then we drove our trusty BMW (I think we should name it…any suggestions?) back home in time for Tyler to get to work.
