5 Years!

Jolly and I celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary yesterday! We've had an amazing start to our marriage. Usually, we go on a weekend trip or hike a tall mountain to celebrate, but being 32 weeks pregnant limited our choices of activities this year. We decided to celebrate close to home and had a wonderful day that we'll remember for a long time.

We started out with a breakfast picnic at the top of the hill in our neighborhood. You can see all the mountains to the west from there, the weather was clear and beautiful. We just lounged around and enjoyed the cool breeze for most of the morning.

I've been wanting to visit the Denver Aquarium for a while now, so we decided to check it out! It turned out to be a lot of fun. There are seven different aquatic habitats represented. Our favorite were the Archer Fish - they had a demonstration of how these guys hunt. The caretaker placed several crickets on a vine above their tank, and the archer fish shot water out of their mouths 5-10 feet to knock their prey into the water. We had never heard of those before. I love otters and sea turtles, and got to see both of those as well. Then we stopped by the huge REI in downtown Denver, we can't really pass up a chance to visit that store!

We ended our day with a great dinner at Hibachi Steakhouse here in Fort Collins. Its just like Benihana. It was yummy and we had a fun chef. He tossed shrimp at all the guys at the table for them to catch in their mouths - Jolly caught his no sweat. We had a great day - and are looking forward to many more fun memories to come.