Sunday was Geoff and my one year wedding anniversary - which is not really that big of a deal considering we have been together for like 10 years now! We started celebrating on Saturday evening. Geoff and I have a rule that whoever is planning our celebration has to surprise the other person with the event - ok this is always dinner but one person doesn't know where you are going. Geoff took me to this adorable restaurant in a Victorian house in the Highlands area of town called the Highland Garden Cafe. Unfortunately it had been raining all day so we could not sit in the courtyard but we had a perfect little table by a window. The highlight of the evening was me having my first red glass of wine in four months! It was fantastic. The official present for 1 year is paper so I have ordered to small paintings for Geoff. I was presented with a piece of paper from the INS saying we have to go get finger printed and photographed on Friday which is a huge deal as it is one of the last steps to us finally getting our greencards.
On our actual anniversary we had an amazing day. We got up and took the dogs to the mountains and we went on a hike just outside Keystone. The hike was supposed to be 6 miles round trip however since we drove Geoff's sports car and could not go on this horrible 4x4 road, we had to park at a different trail head and hike 2.1 miles to the start of the hike. Once we started the actual hike it was incredible! It was of course a gorgeous Colorado day and we were surrounded by 14,000 foot mountains on the back side of A Basin ski resort. The dogs went crazy smelling everything, chasing animals, and swimming. The hike finished after this crazy climb over a talus slope at which it ended at an emerald lake between several mountain peaks. The water was frigid and of course Gus and Jake did not care. They were swimming like little kids. Geoff decided that he rarely gets the opportunity to swim with the dogs so he jumped in! It was insanity. His swim lasted about 45 seconds but probably felt like 3 minutes. The dogs loved it. It was not until hike down that you realize how hard of a climb we had. Since we had only planned on hiking 6 miles not 10 miles, we had only brought a granola bar for the top so needless to say we were STARVING and delirious by the end. We were also trying to beat the thunderstorm that was making its way towards us.
As Johanna put it, "it was our 1st anniversary to celebrate and our last anniversary for a long time without having to find a babysitter."
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