Ian and I just celebrated 10 years of marriage. Because of a certain unnamed partners' hunting trip we could only find time for a short get away, but it was so worth it. We drove about an hour away from our house to the cutest little town called La Conner. We reserved"The Garden Room" of Katy's Bed and Breakfast. We have never actually stayed in a real B&B. It was so nice. Because it was a weeknight we had the house to ourselves. Besides the owners who were barely seen. We called them our personal house elves. With quiet knocks on the door we would find surprises like hot cookies and milk before bed. And the Breakfast was amazing. They were called Dutch Babies. I need to find a recipe for them and they could become a new Christmas breakfast around the Warner household. (We need to come up with a new tradition, since the last one involved nuts, so this will be it we decided!)
The first day there we only went out to dinner at a restaurant on the channel, then back to the B&B to the hot tub, and then we scrapbooked in our sitting room for a while. Ian even made a little album of the kids. It was fun. We intentionally wanted a room with no TV so we could just hang out. The next day we just went antique shopping and played tourist. It was right up our alley. In Wisconsin we had a little town we love to visit called Cedarburg, and in California it was Julian. So this is now our favorite place here in Washington.
Of course we were looking for some small souvenir for the kids to bring them home. When we went in a little shop called Crabbies, of course to live up to the name, they had a huge habitat for Hermit Crabs. Ian loved them, Me not so much. Their kind of creepy. But we both decided that the kids would freak out and be so excited. And really could you ask for a better pet. They don't smell, make noise, and pee on the carpet. We got 3 and the supplies to take care of them. The kids love them, To tell the truth, I am starting to not be so scared of them, and they are pretty cool to watch.
All together we had a great time getting away. It was so nice. I still cant believe it has been 10 years. It goes by so fast. I am more in love with Ian than ever. Here are a few of the pictures from our adventure. By the way, I used a program I found through a cousins blog called PhotoScape, you can download it for free. It was so easy to edit the pictures and put in the collage. It was a lot of fun to work with too.
I still have so much to post, our computer crashed last week and was in getting fixed all week. Luckily I had backed up all my pictures and all but maybe 10 songs I had recently downloaded from itunes. It is still a pain now though because I am having to reinstall so many programs to get things running right again. Hopefully I can find more time in the next few days. Since my dearest husband had left me to find bambi's daddy!
