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Monday, September 6, 2010

6 years

Matt and I celebrated our 6 year anniversay on September 5th. This year it fell on the same day , the Sunday before Labor day. We deceided to stay rather close to home, so we picked to explore Toledo. Why Toledo you ask? Well we've never really been there other than driving through to get to Cedar Point and Matt's been there for a couple concerts and the get his tattoo. A short 45 min drive (that is from the parent's house), we were in the heart of Toledo. The Ottawa River cut the city in half, so we started our day trip with a tour of the S.S. Willis B. Boyer. A coal freighter built in 1911 and sailed until 1980. The freighter main route was from Toledo, OH to Sheboygan WI. I'm not a boat or history buff, but it was still pretty intresting. It's not everyday we get to explore a boat that was built in 1911.




We ate lunch at the famous Tony Packo's Hotdog resturant. Made famous by local Toledoan, actor Jamie Farr, he played on M*A*S*H and mentioned the cafe during seven episodes. I choose not to get a hotdog, I went with stuff cabbage. Boy, that was good, with a side of chicken chili. Yum .....Yummy


The next stop was an art gallery, can you imagine how excited i got when we had to walk through the shop next door to get to the gallery. That shop was a bead store. It's like taking a kid through a candy store. Of course I had to get something. The best part, I already used the beads to make a pair of earrings. Yippey.


Next, Peanut Butter Sundae for Matt, Rasberry Peach smoothie for me, this day is getting better.


A 2 mile walk at the Metro park,(gotta walk off those extra calories.) Saw lots of people walking their dogs, big dogs and little dogs. It sparks the conversation what kinda dog would you want if we got one. Right now matt still likes Pugs. Me not so much, I prefer a cute pound mutt. It's ok cause weren't not in the market for getting a dog. so cute.


Being it a Sunday the other things we considered doing were already closed. That's ok with me cause earlier in the day we got the excited news that April & Erick Schuck had their 2nd child. Joy Sienna was born at 9: 35am. Cool.... Joy was born on our anniversay. Hey since we're in town we went straight from Toeldo to Oakwood hospital to see little Joy. All Matt could say was I can't belive 5 months ago Lilyana was this little. It was so fun visiting with the Schucks in the hospital.






Grandma & Grandpa got to spend all day with Lilyana. Grandpa wrote down everything they did, so we didn't miss a beat. It really was a terrific day the only down side was Patrick had to stay the night in the hospital. But everything seems to have checked out ok. He's home and everyone is happy. Happy 6 years of blissful marriage to us = )

2 comments:

Gramma goes Blogging said...

good job, you did a lot of catching us up on whats going on. Glad you had a nice day out, sry we missed saying goodbye, don't mind if you wake us up to say bye, we can always just go back to bed :-) Spending the day with Lilyana brings on sweet dreams :-)

Dawn said...

Happy Anniversary! Sounds like you guys had a nice time.