3/12 Year Anniversary

I wonder if there will be a time so far in the future where those first 9 years we were together but not married will no longer count, and I will only count our married years as "anniversary". But for now, we will continue to count both our dating and wedding anniversaries, which are convenient only 2 days apart (the 28th would have been better... but that was a Thursday).

Our anniversary fell on a Wednesday - usually the night I go to my 8:30pm gym class then have some fruit and yogurt and watch Big Brother. But I had a great excuse on our anniversary to eat cupcakes and stay home instead!

We went to Sunripe for cupcakes after supper and got the 4 pack so Logan could have an anniversary treat too. Best bedtime snack for Logan! He had a couple bites (mostly of the cake part) but was most excited about the look of it!

Cupcakes and champagne with Big Brother - exactly my style. So much better than gym, yogurt & fruit and Big Brother!

On labour day weekend, we celebrated our anniversary with a night in Huntsville. Logan went to his Nanas and Dziadek's for a sleepover and we headed our for our 4 hour drive early Saturday morning, arriving around 12:30 to Arrowhead Provincial Park for some hiking, lunch, and canoeing. Our first stop was this lookout: so cool! Park your canoe and swim!

After the lookout, we headed on the hiking trail to Stubbs falls.

Having a cold one along the way like true athletic hikers.

The falls were the perfect place for our lunch! We sat on this rock, and had our sandwiches (prepacked to save our waistlines and wallets!) while watching the falls.

Aleksy was prepared and posing for this picture.

After taking some pictures by the falls, we hiked back to the car and the next plan was to rent canoes. It was about 3:30pm at that time, and the next available canoe wasn't until 5pm :(

We were bound and determiend to canoe that weekend because Logan is not at the stage that he can sit in the middle of the canoe, and we haven't canoed since 2014 (not 2015 because I was way too pregnant)
So Arrowhead ended up being very shortlived and we headed into downtown Huntsville to rent a canoe downtown, which we have done before so we knew there was a backup canoesing plan!

But we got our canoes in downtown Hunstville easily... but at double the price.

We've done this canoeing trip together before and its really nice - looking at the cottages along the lake and their parked boats along the water.

But there are motor boats in the lake, which made it really hard to keep the canoe in one spot ... they just weren't considerate that some people may be stopping and drinking wine on the lake. We had to paddle in between sips to make sure we didn't wash up to shore!

We were out for about 1 1/2 hours then headed to check in to our hotel.

But first, a selfie!

After we checked into our hotel, we decided to keep it a reasonably affordable supper by grabbing some veg, cheese, bread, and ham at the grocery store. We had all this plus some drinks in our hotel before getting ready to go out for beers and appetizers downtown.

Keeping the wine glassware classy.

We found the best spot for beers - rooftop patio with a fire built right into the table! It was the Mill on Main and they served craft beer and pineapple, bacon and coconut pizza. Plus we had basically the whole rooftop to ourselves.

The servers at this restaurant and the other restaurant we tried first all had the same shirts as Aleksy as uniforms. That's when you know you packed the right shirt.

There was a movie in the park right behind us while we were there but the white screen behind us blocked it (we didnt want to watch it anyways...) but it was fun to only hear the movie!

Before we went to the restaurant, I needed to make sure we got to the chocolate store before it closed! And we had success.

This box got demolished within hours.


The next day we drove home after breakfast (included in the hotel as we prefer) and we wanted to walk the downtown but it was raining. Not only that but all the stores were closed at 10:30am so we grabbed some pastries and cinnamon raisin buns for Logan from the bakery and headed back to London to our small person. Just a small 4 1/2 hours drive home...