Our First Anniversary

"The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry." Man did I have a sweet weekend planned. It did NOT go as expected, but still turned out to be a wonderful time spent with Leigh. First, we thought we would beat traffic by leaving at 2:30, but little did we know that traffic in DC on the Beltway on Friday is already well underway at that point. And we got in a lane that wasn't moving at the toll booths and didn't realize the other lanes were moving (however slowly) on the opposite side until about 30 minutes later. The people in front of us were just sitting there the whole time... we were all clueless! We made it across the bridge but then torrential downpours slowed us down a bit. We ate at Captain's Galley II, whose crab cake sandwich lived up to the reviews, but everything else was so-so. We then drove to the hotel in pouring rain and hail. I really thought that I had booked a wonderful hotel with a nice secluded room, but it turned out to be older and they put us right next to the pool where little kids could see into our room. Not the best environment for an anniversary celebration, right? So we moved rooms. The next day at the beach and boardwalk was fun and the weather was perfect. Thrasher's fries are supposed to be a big deal and they were pretty good. My gift to Leigh was supposed to be sunglasses bought discretely (this has been a long-time goal to be able to buy something in-store without her realizing it). The cashier was not discrete enough and she noticed, but at least she pretended until after I gave them to her. The water was cold! but refreshing. The culmination of the evening was supposed to be at Philips Original Crab House. It was supposed to be a fine dining experience with great seafood, but it turned out to be a lot of work shelling your own shrimp and cutting and cracking your own average quality lobster and crab. It was average and we felt like we should have been paid to do all that work :)


Leigh's thoughts....
I have to admit, I did not expect Ocean city to be the location of our anniversary. Chris did do a good job keeping it a secret and I did not guess the correct location until Friday morning. The wonderful thing about Chris an I are how differently we think through things......and we both second guess ourselves constantly. The entire traffic filled ride we discussed our (well, his) plans and how differently it could have been in various sorts of situations. But honestly- it turned out great. Chris loved his scrapbook I made for him (turns out, with the help of my sister, I am a bit domestic after all!) and I think the trip would make a great page in a future scrapbook. :) I love my sunglasses and am trying very hard not to misplace them.