Two weeks ago Tanner and I celebrated our first year anniversary. We can’t believe how quickly this year has gone by! It has been a crazy year: we got married; moved to Connecticut; started new jobs; joined a new church; and are now looking at buying a house! It seems like this second year will be uneventful in comparison to the first, but we are looking forward to settling into a normal routine and putting down roots in our new home.
For our anniversary, we traveled to Cape Cod for a four day weekend. It was so beautiful! The weather was perfect, the scenery so picturesque. We loved the quaintness of the small towns (or villages as they call them). Driving along 6A on the northern side of Cape Cod on Thursday, we couldn’t stop oohing and ahhing over the cute houses and gorgeous landscape.
On Friday, we took the ferry to Nantucket for the day. We barely made it on time to the ferry, but thank goodness we had bicycles from the airbnb host we stayed with. I almost ate the pavement on the way there: Tanner was riding behind me listening to the gps and I looked over my shoulder to check on him. When I looked forward, my bike went off the sidewalk and I had to jump over it to keep from being taken down into the road. We were short on time so I got back on my bike and we kept going, but once we got to the ferry and were safely on board, we had a good laugh about it! And the craziness getting there was worth it, because Nantucket is beautiful! We had fun dreaming about what it would be like to actually vacation on Nantucket (not that we will ever, ever be able to afford it). We rode our bikes from one end of the island to the other and, after riding back, got coffee and then ate burgers and fries in an old English pub style restaurant called The Brotherhood of Thieves.
Saturday was a day of exploring the parts of Cape Cod that we had not seen yet. We started in Chatham (pronounced Chat-um) a wealthier section of Cape Cod that has a cute downtown. We originally just stopped to get some coffee, but ended up getting sidetracked in a bookstore for an hour. Tanner and I are both suckers for old books, and have been looking for good ones to stock our bookshelves with. We scoured the shelves and found a few we liked, and by the time we got the register the lady commented “You guys are still here?!” Haha I had no other answer than “We just really like books.” After spending a few more hours in Chatham, we made our way north to the hook of the Cape into Provincetown. Most people don’t realize it, but Provincetown is actually where the Pilgrims first landed when they came to America. Their plan was to sail down to Virginia from there, but when the water was too rough they headed back up and around to Plymouth, which is where most people associate with the Pilgrims landing. While we were there we visited the Pilgrims’ Monument and walked along the commercial street, buzzing with shops and restaurants and tourists. Since Saturday was our actual anniversary we ended with a nice dinner at a sushi restaurant, where the overly-friendly drunk couple beside us kept talking loudly about the pumpkin pie they had at home and their plans to have dinner with their son the next night.
Overall our anniversary trip was everything we wanted it to be. The weather couldn’t have been better; the scenery was all gorgeous; we had so much fun; and we really got quality time to reconnect as a couple. We ended by listening to the recording of our wedding ceremony in the car on the way home. While this first year of marriage has been great, it hasn’t always been easy, so it was good to get away and be reminded of the covenant we cut before the Lord on that day a year ago. Now we’re ready for round two!
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