A weekend in the city

It is hard to believe that as of Saturday, Shane and I have been married 11 years! Last year, at 10 years, we went camping in Colorado for a week. We had the best time. While this year could not top that (due to that thing about trying to be debt free), we had a great weekend in Houston, all planned by Shane! On Saturday, we first went to the Astros game. It was the perfect night for baseball in Houston: seats right behind home plate, the roof was open (it was BEAUTIFUL weather), and the music minister from the church we got married sang the national anthem! After that, we spent the night at Inn at the Ballpark across the street, which is something we have always talked about doing. We had a nice dinner at the Ballpark Cafe inside the hotel. Our room had an awesome view of downtown and the new park they just finished last month. Today we had breakfast at Le Peep, then we went to REI and bought a new tent (they were having a big sale). We needed a new one, since two years ago Bailey and Hamlet (Tara's Great Dane) decided they were lonely and escaped out of our old one by making a hole in the door. We had been able to use it with just us and Bailey, until adventurous Rolo came along and thought it would be fun to escape through the same hole in the middle of the night 2 weeks ago when we went camping! So we really needed a new tent. This one is also bigger, in case God decides to bless us with another (human) little one! Too bad it is getting too hot to go camping.

I know, it is not extravagant or fancy, but I am a simple girl and not hard to please, and he knew just what would make me happy. As Tara joked to me today when I got home from the trip, "only you would enjoy a trip like that for your anniversary. Shane is a lucky guy." ;)