Life with the Shirley Family

Life with the Shirley Family

Thursday, May 16, 2013

20 years ago...

...I married my best friend!  It is true that it doesn't seem like it could have been that long ago.  Life just keeps moving along.  But I am extremely glad that I have had Dave to share these last 20 years with.  I love you, Dave!  And I wouldn't change anything...well maybe the colors we chose in our first apartment :)  We have grown together through the good and the bad and have evolved as people and a couple.  Gone is the hunter green and burgundy (well not in our pyrex), and we are now in middle of the child-rearing years...about to start the teens...yikes!!  

When we first were married, Dave told me thay he would take me to Austria on our 10th anniversary.  Well, we made it to downtown Charleston.  So the next goal was the 20th.  We got a little farther and made it to Hilton Head.  (We do have BIG plans for a week getaway in February though.  Who knows where we will end up)

But Hilton Head was a nice weekend excursion.  We stayed on the beach in a lovely hotel with a great view.  We ate too much (the food was awesome!), slept in, went zip-lining (we would highly recommend this adventure), hung out at the beach and pool, and rented bikes to explore the island.

Our trip was sort of interesting in one little circle of events.  On our honeymoon, we stayed at the Inn at Mystic in Mystic, CT.  The restaurant at the Inn is the Flood Tide and we had dinner and breakfast there.  One night watching Restaurant Impossible, we saw them featured!  (They had gone down since we had eaten there).  On our trip to HH, the last place we ate was Robert Irvine's restaruant, Nosh!  And his restaurant was very yummy and not in need of his overhaul!

It was very nice to get away and just be a couple for the weekend.  Here are some pictures of us 20 years after our first vacation together!
The view from the restaurant where we ate the first night



Hanging at the beach

The view from our room

Lots of relaxing on this trip!


Getting ready to jump off some tree stands!!

Bike riding around Hilton Head


Dave at the beginning of the trip before he started relaxing :)


Our goofy close-up pic

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