An Early Anniversary Trip

Our wedding anniversary is coming up.

Nov. 7th. We will be married for 8 years! Chris has to work all weekend on our actual anniversary. It's inventory weekend. So he planned a little get away for the 2 of us, a few weeks early. It was really great to have time to ourselves. A short little getaway, that was just enough, to feel like we really took a great vacation.

Our mom's watched the girls. Thanks Granny B, and Grandma Bump Bump! We had so much fun! Vegas isn't my first choice, but we went to Vegas, because a company that Chris buys product from, got a room for us free of charge. Chris even picked the hotel he wanted to stay at. He didn't want to be right on the strip, and I'm so glad we weren't.

And then Chris researched the surrounding area too. Finding us an amazing State Park to go visit. I think that was my favorite part of the whole trip.

We drove down on Friday. Eating lunch at our favorite place, Olive Garden, in St. George on the way down. We walked the strip for 3&1/2 hours that night. I was seriously hobbling back that night. Vegas is so BIG! A block in vegas is like walking across town! Before retiring for the night, we had some salads in the cafe at our hotel. Not too shabby.

Chris and I were seriously laughing, because the once really cool Pirate show outside of Treasure Island, has turned into a boat of barely dressed women dancing? What? Lame!!!


Saturday, we slept in, had an amazing all out breakfast, pancakes, eggs, hash browns, bacon, and juice, at our hotel. YUM! Then headed out to Valley of Fire State Park. I loved loved loved this day. We were in our element.







I saw this guy as we were hiking on a trail, and let me just say, I'm glad my camera has a great zoom, because I'm not getting too close to him!
Thought this was so cool. Told Chris it looked like a cupcake with the icing dripping down the sides :)

This part of our hike, was called the narrows. It was super super cool. Loved it :)


I guess this trail marker, is better than your average Caryn.

That night after the park, we ate at the BEST Mexican Food Restaurant I've ever been to. It was called Ricardos. A friend of Chirs' told him about it, and he was right on. The chips and salsa, and bean dip stuff was amazing! Everything else was super yummy too! Then we headed back to our hotel for a swim.
Our Hotel.

This was our pool. We had a great time swimming and sitting in the hot tub after a long day of hiking. It was all lit up at night too.
We took this shot on the balcony overlooking the pool, Sunday morning before we came home. Me and my best friend! He is soooo good to me. I am one very blessed girl :)