Wednesday, June 13, 2012

How do you celebrate 13 years?

So how do you celebrate 13 years of marriage?  If you're the Russells, it looks a little something like this:
1. wake up and sneak to the bathroom hoping not to wake your sleeping husband.
2. return from the bathroom to a sleepy husband who wishes you a happy anniversary.
3. morning normal type stuff that happens when we're on vacation at my folks house.
4. pack up for an evening away!
5. get the car loaded up and get ready to leave only to discover the Dad took his car keys with him when he took the kids to the library in our van. (We got to take Dad's Lincoln to Naples!)
6.  Watch a little House Hunters while waiting on the car keys to be delivered.
7. Get the car keys and make the 45 minute trek to Naples.
8. Along the way, decide to see a movie and use the magic iPhone to find a theater and showtimes that suit us.
9. Buy tickets to see The Hunger Games (because it released in March and we still hadn't seen it yet!).
10.  Grab a quick lunch at a nearby Jimmy Johns (remind me to tell you the story about the guy in the hammock-hilarious)
11. See the movie.  Thoroughly enjoy it.
12. Drive to the hotel and check in-valet parking baby!
13. Explore a little around the hotel. It was pretty, but very hot!
14. Return to the room to dress for dinner (after cooling off).
15. Get recommendation for sushi place for dinner from the concierge.
16. Drive to downtown Naples and eat at Thai Sushi.  It was delicious!  Usually Jruss and I don't have the best luck with meals while we are out of town.  I'm hoping this is the beginning of the end of that trend.  We had a delicious meal-2 sushi rolls, masaman curry, and shrimp pad thai.
17.  Walk around a little more in downtown Naples.  We just missed the sunset.
18. Starbucks stop for a little iced coffee for me.
19. Return to hotel.
20.  For the first time EVER, we "rented" a movie in the room. We saw This Means War.  It was really funny.  Definitely a lot of plot flaws, but really entertaining.
21. Read and turn out the light.

May not sound like much to some, but for this couple who loves nothing more than a movie (or two!) and a good meal, it was perfect!

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