Cassie's World: Our 1st Anniversary

Saturday (the 19th) was our 1st Wedding Anniversary! We celebrated that day, and the weekend before.
The Friday of the weekend before, we went out to dinner with my parents and my brother, Ben, and his fiancé, Julia. It was to celebrate Ben's getting a new job and to celebrate our anniversary. My mom made us a cake, too, and we had some when we went back to their house after dinner, and my parents gave us a card and the money for our dinner out in Maine.

Yum =)

When we were planning our honeymoon, we had planned to go to Maine (we love it there). We went up to Maine for the day on Memorial Day '08 and looked at some hotels to see which one was the nicest and we were gonna book it for a week for our honeymoon. We ended up finding one that we LOVED...it was beautiful and had so much to offer for a really low price. We booked it for our honeymoon and couldn't wait to come back to it! Fast forward about 4 months. We were at a wedding expo and they were doing the grand prize drawings at the end. You have to be present to get the prize if your name is called and, when they called the name for the big prize (an 8-day honeymoon in Aruba), the person wasn't there. They said they were gonna draw another name; well, it was mine! We won an 8-day honeymoon to Aruba! We were shocked! As I said, we had been really excited to go to Maine, but we weren't gonna turn down a free trip to Aruba....when would we ever get that chance again?! Aruba it was! We cancelled our hotel in Maine. We told them we'd be back for our 1st year anniversary, and we were. We knew that was the place we wanted to stay, so we went to book it back in January. We found out every room was booked for our official anniversary weekend (they were having a wedding there that weekend), so we went the weekend before.

We left early Saturday morning and came back Sunday night. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't too great (cloudy/rainy), but we still had fun. We went shopping (one of the things we bought was a Christmas tree ornament; every time we go somewhere for vacation, we get an ornament with the name of the place and the year on it), we played mini-golf, went to an arcade, walked downtown, went out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, etc. It was nice.

the front of our hotel

Dave with the frog he hit the ball through to get a hole-in-one (it was on the 18th hole, so we won half off of another round of mini-golf; we went back and played again the next day)

going out to dinner

playing mini-golf the second day

We came home Sunday night, had a regular week, and then on Friday night, we went to Dave's parents' house for dinner. They bought a "Happy Anniversary" ice-cream cake (I took a picture on my phone, but it didn't save it) and they got us a card and a gift card to Olive Garden.

The next day was our actual anniversary. We spent most of the day at home, and then we went out that night. Our first date was to Applebee's and the movies; so for our 1st anniversary, guess where we went....yup, Applebee's and the movies (the same exact restaurant and theater). =) This time, though, we also went to Coldstone Creamery for dessert. We saw "Toy Story 3" at the movies.

When we came home, we watched our wedding video and reminisced about how much fun our wedding was, and we ate some of the top of our wedding cake. It actually wasn't too bad, considering I don't think I wrapped it correctly when I put it in the freezer.