2 years

wow! i can't believe that this guy and i have been married for two years now. this year it was my turn to plan our anniversary celebration. i will admit, it took me a while to come up with something to do. finally it hit me! a nights stay in a cabin and biking in a beautiful park afterwards.

we rented a cabin at dogwood canyon, a nature park about 30 minutes from our house. it was wonderful. we got there and the first thing eric did was to fire up the grill. i had to go out and take pictures of the process. neither one of us really thought about it until i started to go back inside the cabin to check on the boiling pot of water on the stove. i started to open the door and realized it was locked. lovely...so what do you do when both of your cell phones are inside, it isn't a hotel where you can just walk down to the front desk...so my charming hero, whose shoes were locked inside, went to the other two cabins close by and tried to knock on their doors to see if they would let him use their phones to call security to unlock our door. since that plan didn't work he took our bikes off the bike rack and proceeded to ride his bike, while barefoot, to try and find someone to unlock our door. he finally found someone and they were there in just a few minutes to let us inside.

the next morning i was going to make muffins so we would have lots of energy for our bike ride. i was sad to discover that there was no oven...hmmm...again, my charming husband had a brilliant idea. use the gas grill to cook the muffins. i had my doubts, but they were awesome! they turned out just perfectly.

as you can see our cabin was deep in the woods...not really 'deep', but definitely secluded.

we started our bike ride in the park...it was GORGEOUS!! there were so many waterfalls and ponds and a few caves

the pictures are worth a thousand words so i don't think i really need to explain them...that, and my mind has started to wander a little and i can't think of anything else to write about them.