Our Beautiful Journey

We just returned from Destin, FL...we were celebrating our one year wedding anniversary. What a wonderful year it has been - one filled with love, adventures and all the magic that marriage brings. We look forward to many new and exciting adventures together!

We are so glad we were able to work in this quick anniversary trip - it was so worth it. Believe it or not, Destin is only a 9 hour drive from Texas...emerald green water and white sandy beaches...and it was still warm enough to swim in, even though it is October! Laura grew up going to Destin almost every summer with her family - her grandfather had a home there until recently. We spent Friday making the drive over to Florida - it is a pretty straight shot down I-10. Saturday was spent enjoying the beautiful beaches...a bit of window shopping at some pretty cool art glass stores, P.F. Changs for a late lunch and then we finished the evening off at The Track, a really cool go kart and putt-putt golf amusement park. We got to test out our mad Mario Kart skills on their really cool tracks - they have 5 of them! We kept Sunday pretty quiet with church, the required time share presentation (that is how Brian got us such a sweet deal at the Marriott - $170 for 4 nights!), followed up by a siesta.

Monday was our anniversary, we started the day at 5 AM - we were going deep sea fishing! We had such a great time! The seas were pretty rough (thank goodness for Dramamine!)...but the fish were biting like crazy! We probably reeled in over 30 fish between the two of us...unfortunately, we only got to keep six (Red Snapper have to be over 16 inches to keep them). The group we went with was so great - and the captain really kept us moving...if the fish stopped biting he moved us to the next spot. We got home around two, got cleaned up and took another siesta (it is vacation after all!). Brian surprised me for our anniversary dinner by taking us to The Melting Pot, a really romantic fondue restaurant. We had a wonderful time. We had to leave Tuesday morning, so we packed up Monday evening so that we could get up super early to watch the sunrise on the beach before we drove home...what a beautiful end to a wonderful vacation.