Anniversary Weekend

Doesn't that look delicious? It was! It's stuffed french toast with whipped cream and strawberries from Founding Farmer's in Washington, DC. That's how we started off our Anniversary on Saturday morning. I really liked the place! Charlie got fried chicken with eggs and waffles, also very good! Another great thing was the mimosas! Wow! This was my first time having one... I loved them! So easy to drink:)

After our wonderful breakfast, we drove over to the National Crime and Punishment Museum. It was pretty cool! I read quite a bit, even though I said I didn't like the reading parts lol. There was some cool stuff to look at, like weapons and what not. My favorite part was the prison art work. One prisoner made an owl out of soap... loved it!! Some of the paintings were so awesome! They really have talent:)

We probably stayed at the museum for almost 3 hours, then headed over to Chinatown gallery place. I didn't know it was actually a mall, kind of. There's not too much in it, but it was neat. We decided to go to "Bar Louie" which was a nice place! It was pretty empty, which I liked. We ordered some appetizers and drinks. I got sangria, my favorite:) We hung out there for a little while, then headed to the hotel to check in!

We stayed at the "Washington Courts" hotel. It was really nice! When we booked the room, we made a comment that it was our anniversary, and they definitely acknowledged that! They wished us a happy anniversary and gave us a room with an amazing view of the Capitol! It was really cool:)

Once we got settled into the room, we decided to go back out to Union Station. It was really pretty in there! Lots of shops and stuff, but nothing that I really wanted to go to. After walking around there for a little while, I started to feel sick. I definitely attribute it to the fact that I ate so much terrible food and also had a few drinks! Once I took some Tum's, I felt 100% better! Thank goodness. I did NOT want to ruin our anniversary!

When we left Union Station, we stopped by "The Dublinger" bar and "Kelly's Irish Times" bar. They were kinda small and beat though, so we didn't stay long lol. They seemed really "local." We walked back to the hotel and got ready for dinner!

We had reservations for 8pm at "District ChopHouse and Brewery" Mmm! It was really good! They serve you cornbread at the beginning of the meal. We ordered spinach and artichoke dip for an appetizer. It was fantastic!! I got the 8 ounce filet mignon with cheddar mashed potatoes. Delish!! My steak was awesome!

When we left there, we were SO stuffed and tired!! We thought about going out to a bar, but we were just being so old and decided to stay at the hotel, watch some TV, and eat our wedding cake! It was a great ending to a perfect day:)

The cake didn't hold up too great in the freezer, color wise. But the actual cake itself tasted great!! It was still moist and delicious:) It was really nice to get an actual piece, considering I didn't even get a real piece at the wedding! lol. It was really good:)

I slept surprisingly well that night and woke up feeling great. We had to check out by noon, so we took showers and packed up:) Another anniversary perk was that they waived the $43 parking fee!! Thank goodness!! That's so expensive!

On our way home, I decided to be a little bad and get a McDonald's 4 piece nugget and a large fry! Bad me! Oh well... I decided to turn it into an anniversary weekend, rather than a day!! lol

It was such a nice day out, so I decided to invite my sisters over to come trail running with me! Rayna brought her dog, Chase, and I brought Chief. First we took them in the water to play... well, tried. Chase loves the water and was all in it! Chief on the other hand, not a huge fan of it! He never really got in, but him and Chase ran around together a whole bunch. It was really cute and I think they had fun!

After that, me and Roch ran together for the rest of the trail. Rayna and Charlie walked the dogs behind us:) It was good. We went the opposite way around the trail this time, so I think the hills were a lot harder this way! It sucked!! But I burned a pretty good amount of calories. Too bad I ruined that later!

My parent's 32nd wedding anniversary was October 6th, and ours being on the 22nd, we decided to go out to dinner together. Roch and Rayna also tagged along:) We went to Hunan Treasure, a Chinese restaurant by my parents house. It was good... but definitely not as good as our Chinese place, Mandarin House. That place is seriously the best!! Nothing can compare!!!

We had a nice time though, and I enjoyed having quality family time. I definitely don't see my family as much as I used to, now that I don't live at home... obviously. We're not that far, but I guess I can just be lazy sometimes. But hey, cars work both ways!! lol... if that even made sense. I wish we had an actual dinning room so that I could make dinner and invite my family over, but alas, I don't!

All in all it was a really good weekend. I had such a fun time with my husband and we really loved DC! I definitely want to go out in DC again with friends or something. There's so many bars and restaurants to go to! It will take a couple trips to cover them all.

I can't believe a year has already passed since we got married. It's crazy. I do want to have kids soon, but first I have to work on my job situation. If I can get the job as a paid firefighter/EMT, do that for a year or so until I feel settled, then maybe we'll start trying for kids. But for now, I'm just enjoying being carefree and having the freedom to do whatever I want. Not only that, but enjoying my new found hot body!! I love it, and I don't want to get fat again any time soon!!

Oh, on Friday, I got this tattoo as a surprise anniversary present to Charlie. I revealed it to him by saying "I have this rash on my side, can you look at it?" Then I showed him and he was shocked! He asked if it was real and then stared at it in shock for about 5 minutes straight! lol Too funny...

I love you Charlie LaGrave!!!!<3<3<3