Ten years of learning about each other, learning how to be married, learning how to live together, learning the ins and outs of insecurities and struggles, learning to laugh when life with littles just gets bonkers. Learning the age old lesson of communication.
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| ah, so young and free |
I am so incredibly thankful for God's work in each of our lives and in our marriage. Luke was my favorite on the day of our marriage, and I can say without a doubt he's even more my favorite now.
As a brief break from jotting down our Perrault reunion memories, I want to dedicate today's memories to when Luke and I were able to sneak away for a few days to celebrate our anniversary. My mom stayed after everyone else left so that we could head on down to Chattanooga. Now, rewind to two years ago when we were celebrating our eighth anniversary and we thought it would be fun to celebrate our tenth in Europe. Yup, little did we know we'd have an almost one year old (though that was most definitely my hope and prayer!), or that we would no longer be living in MD!
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| finally heading off on our adventure! |
So after Luke delivered some of the family to the airport on Saturday morning, and then took our cat to the emergency vet (because of course she managed to get herself into some sort of mess right before we were going somewhere), we drove on down to Chattanooga.
Our plan for the few days we were there were mostly to just chill and really just do whatever we felt like doing. By the time we got to our hotel, it was 8:30 (7:30 central time, but Chattanooga is just over the line into the Eastern time zone) and we were ready for dinner. But of course nothing but fast food was open, and I still try to eat mostly healthy when we're out, so to Walmart we went. Super classy for the beginning of an anniversary trip. :)
Our first full day was Sunday and we headed downtown to walk around. We wandered around what seemed like a businessy area, as well as right around the aquarium. We drove to another part of town to eat at a place called Bread and Butter which most definitely caters to vegans, but we both got delicious sandwiches and a yummy cookie. After lunch we wandered around the nearby mall, and went to the movies to see the latest Star Wars movie. (And also the first movie we've seen together since Clara was born!)
The next day we started off at Lookout Mountain to do the tour of Ruby Falls. It's an underground cave with one of the biggest underground waterfalls. After grabbing lunch, we went to the North Shore part of town, and as soon as we parked the car and paid, a thunderstorm hit and we took cover for about 10 minutes waiting for it to pass. It tapered off a little and we dashed to a coffee shop where we sat for about two hours so I could read and Luke could work on some coding. It was so peaceful. And so nice. And so not ever how are lives look now.
Tuesday morning we checked-out of the hotel, and started for home. But since my mom wasn't expecting us back until evening, we headed into Franklin to wander around downtown, ate lunch at Puckett's, got ice cream, and then drove to Carnton Plantation to look around the grounds. We decided not to do the actual paid tour of the garden and house, but we could still walk around part of the property reading about the Civil War battle that took place there.
The long weekend was filled with delicious food, slowing down and just being together, leisurely eating, we binge watched the final season of Parks and Rec, we slept in past 6:30. It was beautiful, and maybe not exactly how we imagined celebrating our 10th anniversary, but it was good. All we wanted was to just have some time with each other without distractions, and that's what we got.
I'm thankful for 10 years and all that God has done in that time! (And praying for many, many more years together!)
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