Celebrating Eleven Years....

We didn’t have any real plans for our anniversary this year, but once Monday rolled around Chris said he was excited about our anniversary. He asked me if I wanted to know where we were going and I said NO! I wanted to be surprised. I had a few ideas of what he might do, but didn’t  think of Flint Creek until he started packing up our sheets and bedspread! He said I could go casual, but I didn’t know how casual, he said around the house casual. So I was confused, until we headed that way. I’m so thankful that my mother in law kept all three kids for us to go.

The view from our deck

The other view

Our cabin #

The back of the cabin

Loved these chairs

Chris wanted to fish before it was too dark, so we did that before going out to eat.

I even casted a line- too bad I didn’t catch anything but seaweed!

Chris caught one little fishy

Then he took me to a unique place… the Whistle Stop Cafe! He knows how much I adore the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, so this was PERFECT for our dinner date! I’m so proud of him! We had our share of fried green tomatoes and all you can eat catfish and boiled shrimp. I felt like we would both POP before we made it home! I have never tasted catfish so good! The shrimp was just right too- not to spicy but just enough.

We got home and watched a little TV (Chris flipped through the channels mostly!) I read on my Kindle Fire (Choosing to See by Mary Beth Chapmen) I know it sounds silly to just sit and do nothing, but we rarely do sit down together on the couch, and do nothing- so that was a nice change for us! Plus it was so quiet, I could read and just enjoy my time.
Then we had a toast!

Celebrating ELEVEN YEARS!!! God is good!

This was late last night- we were about to go to bed…

Chris went fishing in the early morning around 6:30 and I slept in until 8, then had my leftover fish for breakfast!

I loved the view from the kitchen of the cabin. The cabin was really old, but it was lovely. A perfect little getaway for us!

After breakfast we drove around the park to see what had changed. It has been since 1999 since either of us had gone out there. So it was good to see what all they offered. We will probably take the teens from church this summer to go enjoy a day up there, or do a camp for the kids that can’t afford camp.

Then Chris found this trail that had a map of downtown Wiggins on it. I was sitting the van waiting and then he smiled, and held up one finger and took off running- I was laughing and wondering what he was doing. He said he wanted to see where the path went before he parked the van… I was afraid of him not coming back!


But he did, and so we parked and walked into town together. It was a nice mile walk to town. We talked a long the way and took a few photos…



Once we got back from our walk, we had our geese visitors back… I laughed because there were 2 males and 1 female- so it was like Chloe, Jack and Eli had come to see us. They were at our cabin when we arrived last night. It was ironic that there were three of them. They were LOUD and hissed at each other and of course HONKED. It was fun though- we missed our little ones… even if they do act like these geese!

We had to check out by noon, so we enjoyed our time together and then Chris packed up everything while I took my shower. The poor cabin shower needed a door, but they had a flimsy curtain instead. It kept wanting to touch me, so I finally flung it out and let it just run water into the floor… They had ceramic tile, but I felt bad, of course they had no towels or anything down on the floor to help, so I guess they expect it. Chris fished a little longer while I finished getting ready and then we took this picture together on the deck. (My favorite part of the cabin was the deck!)

 
As we were leaving to go eat lunch I grabbed a picture of the old Depot building, I thought it was cool.
 
Then we stopped at another little hole in the wall type place, and enjoyed some great food and time together.
  
Chris and I challenged each other on a skee ball game on my Kindle… I lost.


Chris had crab cakes and I had a seafood loaded baked potato…

I loved their Mardi Gras tree! I though it was super cool.
 
We got into town about an hour ago and ran into Office Max and Ross to pick a few things. Chris bought me a new pair of shoes for summer (it will be here soon!) and a set of Lucy glasses (one of mine from my birthday was ruined when our dishwasher ran all night) and I found some ribbon for a gift that I need to make. We just got to my in laws house a few minutes ago and I thought I better post all this now, because once I get home I have a lot to do! I hope you enjoyed seeing our photos!!! I sure do love my husband! This is the first time in eleven years that we’ve gone anywhere over night for our anniversary! Very special… thanks hon.