Anniversary Weekend
A two days ago my wife and I hit the two year mark on our marriage. She is essentially working a job and a half this week, school in the morning and training for her summer job after that. With that being said, we decided it would be better to celebrate this time on the weekend. I think we’re going to go downtown Chicago and visit the Museum of Science and Industry which we haven’t been to in years. Best of all is she can get us in for free, along with some other places, as a perk of her new job. That evening we’re going out to dinner at the Olive Garden.
I remember last year the first anniversary was a huge stressful deal. We had to buy each other gifts, got a suite in a hotel, and ate at a very pricey restaurant. Last year the grand total of everything was probably over $500 and it just totally busted the month along with the car insurance bill. This year though we agreed that our home entertainment upgrade to HDTV was our gift to each other. So this weekend I’m estimating it will run at most $100, which still allows breathing room to deal with the car insurance bill this month.
When we started dating in college, every time we hit a year we would go out to a nice dinner. Six and a half years we’ve been together (two married) later I don’t see why it should be any different. I do think that when we hit a milestone, our ten year anniversary, we will take a vacation somewhere nice. What would be even better is to be debt free before that day comes. Most likely other things will happen along the way but it’s good to have a long term goal. We’ll stay DINKs for now though because neither of us desire family expansion right now. Two years married though and I think we have grown stronger than we were last year.
Happy Anniversary! It sounds like you have a nice time planned, enjoy.
Happy Anniversary! I think you guy definetly got stronger. Last year while I was reading your blog I thought you guy would get divorce, seriously after reading your many posts I would guess you’ve together very short time.Iam glad Iam wrong and you guys are really happy!
Happy anniversary to you both and congratulations on reaching this milestone. Enjoy your celebration!
Some people are so lucky to live close to such fun things, I LOVE the Museum of Science and Industry, even though I’ve only been there once. (I still remember the awesome colored staircases though, probably one of my favorite things.)
My husband and I just had our first year anniversary a few months ago. Other than some small gifts, it was the same as every other month for us. We always go out to eat for our monthly anniversary - No point waiting for a whole year to celebrate something that’s always there, right? (Maybe that’s just us reacting to the military thing of people getting married and then getting divorced a few months later, though.)
Awesome. Congratulations. Our anniversary is this weekend, and you made me create a blog on our anniversary. Thanks!
Happy Anniversary! My wife and I just celebrated our 6yr wedding anniversary as well as my daughters 1 Yr birthday. My son’s 5 yr is next month. Time goes by quick.
Happy Anniversary!
Happy anniversary! Enjoy it!
I just wanted to put a little follow up to the weekend. We ended up going to the Zoo instead of the museum. It was fun to see the animals and what has changed over the years. They sell one of my favorite things too, Lemon Chill. It was $3.50 but well worth it to enjoy something I haven’t had in a long long time. We were lucky to avoid a downpour being inside one of the buildings watching the monkeys playing as it rained. Weather was pretty scattered that day and we were lucky to enjoy the nicer parts.
After the Zoo we went to the Olive Garden for dinner. The wait was only about 20 minutes, so I thought things weren’t too bad. After we were seated our waitress was terrible. It took her 10 minutes to bring the drinks after we had ordered, blaming the bar of course. Sadly, one of the drinks was wrong. It took another 5 minutes to get that switched out. At least the food was perfetto even though the service was not. I had a $4 off two entrees coupon we used, which ended up reducing our total as well as her tip. When it comes to tips, I do 20% for great service down to no tip at all for cases like being forgotten about. Overall though I think the day went fine other than the rain and poor service.