2 Years Already?

I know people always say this, but I really can't believe David and I have been married for two years! The past two years really have flown by - especially the last year. Being out of school and just working every day really makes the days fly by. So on June 21st was mine and David's anniversary. That was a Monday so we decided to celebrate the weekend prior to that. Once we decided that, some things came up for that weekend so we worked around them and ended up having a packed weekend.

We began Friday evening by both rushing home from work so that we could head up to Salt Lake. It was David's cousin Will's 7th birthday so us and all of David's cousins were invited to see Toy Story 3 at the Gateway Mall. The movie was really good! And of course, I teared up at the end. When do I not. Then we all went and got ice cream at Ben & Jerry's. Also, there was some chalk drawing contest going on in the main street that runs through the mall. The drawings were amazing!

Will's birthday party was going to continue in the morning at a Gymnastics Training Center (GTC) and David really wanted to go so we decided to get a hotel room in Salt Lake as a way to go to the gymnastics thing and for our anniversary celebration. We stayed at the Little America Hotel. It was really nice - we originally tried to stay their for our wedding night, but it was all booked. While we were gone at the movie, hotel workers came in and turned on classical music in our room, laid out some robes, and put little chocolates on our bed! We didn't even tell them we were there for anything special. How sweet is that?

We woke up early Saturday morning to head over to the GTC. David went to his other cousin's bday party here last year and loved it. It is a gymnastics center that has trampolines, vaults, rings, bars, all gymnastic equipment and then it has giant foam pits all around. So you can run and do the vault and land in a big foam pit. David LOVES this place. And yes, everyone at the party was under the age of 10 except for David.

We were there for about an hour and a half and then headed back to Provo to go to Seven Peaks. Neither of us had been back to Seven Peaks since the summer of 2007 when we first started dating. It was super fun but like always our feet KILLED by the end of the day. I don't know what it is about Seven Peaks but I always leave there barely able to walk. We rode all the rides and enjoyed laying out in the sun for a bit.

Then we headed home to get ready for our special dinner. David planned a special dinner for me that night. We headed back up to Salt Lake without me knowing where we were going. We ended up here:

We ate at a restaurant called the New Yorker. Apparently it has the "Best Chef" in Utah. It is owned by the people who own Market Street Grill.

The restaurant felt very New York-ish!

I love going to new restaurants. This one was quite interesting. The crowd was very interesting. There was a writer sitting at the bar scribbling down notes. There were 2 ladies in their 80's having dinner and tea with a man in his 30's who had a long ponytail and a shirt unbuttoned down to the middle of his chest. Then a hobo walked in off the street. All the waiters started looking at each other not knowing what to do. One finally gave him a menu. The hobo looked at it and then walked out. Weird.

David decided that we should order a "fun" appetizer so we ordered escargot. Neither of us had had it before and I'm not sure we would have it again. The escargot was cooked in a garlic butter so the taste was not bad. It was just kind of mushy, but they had you scoop it up with crunchy bread so that made for a nice contrast. The only bad thing about it was getting over it mentally. We each ate one bite and were fine. Then we started talking about snails. And then I almost couldn't stomach a second one. Looking at the escargot close up, it looks just like a snail. The shape, the texture, the look, everything is the same as snails you see outside your house on the ground. It was a bit creepy for my liking.

David ordered a salmon dish and I ordered the filet mignon. I would rate the food as just okay. I didn't like the sauce they put on my steak and potatoes. David and I decided that maybe rich people just have different food tastes than us. For us, just simple meals from Chili's tasted better than our meals here. But like I said - I love trying new restaurants so now I can say I have tried the New Yorker. Dessert was pretty yummy though! Turtle sundaes...mmm!

And that ended our night! It was a great anniversary and I can't wait for the many, many more David and I have ahead of us!