Our 3rd Anniversary

Today is our 3rd anniversary! 3 years of being married, learning how to love better and laughing a lot! What should we do to celebrate???? I could put on my wedding gown...but it might not fit so well over my growing baby bump. Go dancing??? I'd probably get short of breath and my feet would hurt. Drink champagne? Nope. Eat cake??? Yes! That I can definitely do :) Actually, Ryan and I celebrated Sunday night and Monday with a get away to Dallas. It was a romantic time to celebrate and enjoy it being just the 2 of us.
Sunday afternoon we checked into The Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas. It was a very fancy hotel! We had talked about staying at a hotel a while back, but when I looked at hotel rates I ran into a problem. Everything nice - The Westin or The Hilton - was expensive. Everything affordable - La Quinta or The Holiday Inn - fell into the category of, "that would be fine if we were out of town, but for a night in Dallas it would be less than desirable." We had pretty much ruled out the idea of a hotel when we suddenly remembered that our credit card lets us accumulate points. We had never used these points before and didn't quite understand how they work. Basically since we've been married we just let them collect figuring that we'd do something with them someday. Guess what? It was someday! We actually had enough points to stay at the fancy Adolphus for free! What a bargain!
They treated us like royalty and it didn't cost us a thing.
Sunday night we went out to eat a Benihana's hibachi grill. I love hibachi. I always think that they aren't making enough food when they are grilling it up in front of me, but somehow I end up with plenty of leftovers. Leftovers are important when you're pregnant and require what we jokingly refer to as "2nd Dinner" around 10pm.
This was part of our nice hotel room. I love fluffy hotel beds that I don't have to make. It is also important to me that the hotel comforter is not ugly and stiff.
That is always the down side about beach hotels. Ugly bed linens.
Ryan reading up on the best of Dallas in the sitting area. I didn't take a picture of it, but our room had a fabulous bathroom. The shower head was like standing under a hot waterfall and inside the shower/tub there were towel racks placed just far enough away from the shower head that they wouldn't get wet and you could dry off without having to reach outside of the shower. Amazing.
I think our apartment complex needs to look into that little renovation!
One of the views from our window.
Room service for breakfast! The only other time we've gotten room service was on our wedding night when we were starving after the reception so this was a big deal. My Belgian waffle was amazing. Not pictured: the less expensive bottle of orange juice we purchased at CVS the night before. Life (even room service) is give and take.
I'll spring for the fancy waffle, but juice is juice.
Ready for our day date on Monday morning!
At the Dallas World Aquarium. One of us is looking very pregnant.
I love penguins. It's so cute to watch them waddle around. Like a duck, but sweeter.
We couldn't find a label for this animal, but it reminded us of Cosby.
So active, so in love with life.

This turtle looked like his head was stuck under the rocks. Don't worry, he got out.

My favorite animal of the day - the manatee! I liked the manatees because I could related to being big, round, and slower. It was also neat because there were 2 aquarium workers in their tank playing with the manatees and giving them massages.
Swimming and a massage? They have it made.

The tropical zone - a little too hot to stay in very long, but it was fun to see the monkeys jump around.

Happy Anniversary, Ryan! I love you so much! Our Dallas date was wonderful and
I'm looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together!