No, not my blog’s anniversary. My actual anniversary. Or rather, our actual wedding anniversary… 5 years to be exact. I feel like 5 years is kind of a big deal. We’re definitely not newlyweds anymore, but we still have so much ahead of us. I’m not very good at all the mushy stuff, so I’m just going to to leave it at this: Hubby rocks and I love him. The end.
Normally, all we do for our anniversary is go out to dinner. We’re not big celebrators. However, to celebrate 5 whole years of marriage, we left Bug at home and took off to St. Augustine for the weekend. Don’t worry… we left Bug with plenty of food, water & diapers. St. Augustine is one of the oldest cities in the country and has lots of historic stuff to do, like the Castillo de San Marcos (read: badass fort), as well as lots of really hokey touristy stuff, like Ripley’s Believe It or Not and Potter’s Wax Museum. We did none of that… save the fort, because it was actually really cool.
The reason we went to St. Augustine had nothing to do with what the city offered. We chose that location because it holds a lot of memories for us. See, we went to college at the University of Florida in Gainesville and Hubby’s best friend Trevor (T-Bone) went to college at Flagler in St. Augustine, only about an hour & a half away from us. We spent a lot of weekends visiting T-Bone because 1) we love T-Bone and b) there tends to be good surf in St. Augustine. We chose St. Augustine to relive some awesome old memories of the dating years and to make some new awesome memories.
We heard an ad for the Matanzas 5000 on the radio on the drive up, so we signed up when we got in town. Nothing like an impromptu 5k during a vacation getaway, huh? It was amazing. The race started and finished just a few blocks from our bed & breakfast and ran us along the river and through the historic downtown, which is beautiful. Hubby finished with a 26:50 and I finished with a 26:51 – woohoo PRs!!! That beats my last 5k time by 10 seconds. Yay! After running, we ate a fantastic breakfast and then headed to the beach for a surf session. It was the first time I’ve surfed since before I was pregnant. Like riding a bike, except for somehow I am now better at riding the metaphorical bike than I used to be. Maybe all of this running has made me a better surfer?
After the beach we headed to Nalu’s. Hands down the best fish tacos you will ever eat anywhere. I’d link to their website… but they don’t have one, seeing as they are a food trailer in the parking lot of a surf shop. They’ve been there for like a decade and we never miss Nalu’s when we are in St. Augustine. We’ll even drive out of the way to get fish tacos if need be. They’re that good.
After a good nap, we walked around town and grabbed drinks at a couple bars with good live music before heading to our 9:00 reservations at The Tasting Room. My drinks included Red Bull in order to stay awake late enough for dinner. I could go on and on about The Tasting Room, but let’s just say it was nothing short of incredible. Amazing atmosphere, delicious food, outstanding service. We had to wait quite a while for our table and they wined & dined us to make up for the wait in their wine cellar. Now, I’m a foodie & a wine nerd, so I was totally geeking out just sitting in the wine cellar. I poured over the wine list with a perma-smile and might have touched a bottle or two of things I will probably never be able to afford to even taste.
Here we are, tired & full & slightly drunk after a perfect day. Running, eating, surfing, eating, napping, drinking, eating. Of course, while it was really nice to have a weekend away without a toddler in tow, we saw a million things that Bug would have loved (coolest playground ever! Pirate Museum! shooting cannons at the fort!) and we vowed to bring him to St. Augustine when he’s a little older. Apparently he didn’t miss us too much… both sets of grandparents kept the little guy busy & happy as a clam all weekend long and he didn’t ask for us even once.
How do you celebrate your anniversary? Something different every year?
