Ist Year Anniversary (Already!)
Max and I celebrated our 1st anniversary this past weekend by take a few days to relax out at the coast. We stayed in Seaside at the Gilbert Inn, which we highly recommend: it is right off the turn around on Broadway and is a very beautiful historical building with the most welcoming of owners. The room we stayed in was very floral (see pictures below) but very comfortable and nice. The best part was that we didn't have our computers/internet access or any plans—we were able to sleep in, do whatever sounded good as we thought about it, and forget for a few days that we were moving to London and had to pack up the house!
We rode our bikes to Cannon Beach, drove up to Astoria (Max had never been before!), and took a lot of walks on the boardwalk and beach. We saw great weather the whole time we were there, even warmer than it was in town! Had our anniversary dinner at the sushi place on Broadway, and it wasn't too bad. The best and hardest part was that we took with us the ceremony I had written for our wedding and Max read it aloud, and we read our vows again for the first time since the ceremony. It was definitely a wonderful experience to read it and relive many of those emotions again together and it really let us think about just us and the wonderful first year we've had. Then we looked through the beautiful album we have (best photographers, if you're looking for a recommendation!) and took time to do it slowly, remembering the whole day.
All in all, a great first anniversary, with many more to come!
Here are the pictures:
