Our Second Wedding Anniversary

Today is Our Second Wedding Anniversary. We have been married two years! We celebrate Our Anniversary every year on the official day we first got married, 1 July 2004 in a small Civil Service Wedding ceremony at the Town Hall where I lived. That was when we were first initially married. Then we had a religious Wedding Ceremony at my parish church. This was our main Wedding Ceremony where our families and friends both in the United States and United Kingdom attended. It was a beautiful Ceremony and reception. Everything was so beautiful! Tonight we are celebrating quietly at home. I am preparing a nice romantic meal of curried chicken over rice and I baked a special Anniversary cake that is a replica of our Wedding Cake: a yellow cake with chocolate mousse filling. Although it isn’t quite as ornately decorated as our delux Wedding Cake that the Fiesta Banquet Hall gave us. That was a dream cake! It had three teirs. The cake was decorated in a basket weave design with a fountain ornament with little Wedding party dolls ascending the steps and the Bride and Groom dolls on top. The staircase was decorated with periwinkled-coloured flowers to match the dresses of my bridesmaids. We celebrated Our Anniversary in July by going to Stratford-Upon-Avon for a long weekend. It was lovely! We both stayed at the Broadlands Guest House. It was a cosy, initimate Guest House with ensuite an double room. The proprioters left us a small box of Thortons Chocolates in our Room with a card saying ‘Happy Anniversary, Alex and Mary’ on the top. It was a lovely gesture. The room was sparkling clean and had a power-shower. Hubby and I went to see the house where William Shakespeare was born, a Site-Seeing Open Bus that took us through Stratford-Upon-Avon and the surrounding villages, a boat ride up and down the River Avon, a trip to Holy Trinity Church where Shakespeare and his family are buried, to the Shrieves Museum and to see the ‘Shakespearience’…a virtual reality show about Shakespeare and his plays. We truly enjoyed ourselves those two days! This Sunday we went to Whiltshire to see the famous Horse on the HIll….a massive 374 foot white horse carved out of chalk on the hills in Uffington. We stood on Dragon HIll where the legendary battle of Saint George battling the draggon stood. I can’t believe I made it to the top of this steep hill! The views were spectacular!