.5 Years of Happiness

Sean and I have been married .5 years as of tomorrow, February 7th.  1% of the way to our Golden Anniversary.  We're all about the little things and are still enjoying this gig, so we spent the weekend celebrating that major milestone (and Valentine's Day).  A marriage weekend if you will.

On Friday, I made no less than what I'd consider a Mexican feast while it poured down rain, so we hung out at home and watched a movie.  I love that kind of date because since it's cold and rainy, you don't feel guilty about hanging around at home.

Sean, who is the best husband ever, planned our date for Saturday.  Even though we barely live 10 minutes from uptown, it's a lot different in uptown than it is in Southpark, so Sean booked what was an awesome deal on a room at the Westin in uptown Charlotte.  We checked in around 1:00 and headed to the gym to prepare for an amazing dinner (we have to prepare our bodies in advance for those because it helps to enjoy the meal when you're not stuck on what it's doing to your waistline).  Did some swimming, and spent a long (very relaxing) hour or so in the sauna reading.  Then we headed up to get ready for dinner.  Sean had picked out a restaurant in advance that was just a block from the hotel on the green, Aquavina, and had even decided what we should eat, which consisted of a variety of appetizers and dessert.  After that we took a walk around uptown in the overstreet mall and Epicentre and headed to the Knight Theater for a show.  We saw UNC's a cappella group, the Clef Hangers.  I do have to admit that I was sceptical of another a cappella group being as amazing as Clemson's TigerRoar, but they were awesome.  I will say that it was weird to have everyone stand up and sing UNC's fight song at the end, but we'll take what we can get.  It is always a little better with Tiger Rag as the finale of any and everything though.

The view of Charlotte from our hotel room

All in all, great weekend with my great husband.  I absolutely cannot believe that we've been married for SIX months.  It feels like we got married yesterday...but at the same time like our wedding was forever and a day ago.  Anyway, either way, in the words of Sean's old co-worker, I think I'm really lucky to have made a really good decision when I was really young.

In the green, which is in the center of uptown