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Thanks Tink for the reminder!

I have been married to my best friend for 25 years today! I could go on and on about all the wonderful, fabulous things about my hubby, but I have told you about those things already…but what I will say is I can’t imagine loving him more than I do now!

To celebrate we took a long weekend to San Antonio since our trip to Ireland isn’t till May we wanted to do something special to mark the occasion. Special it was! We had a corner suite at the River Center Marriott on the 28th floor. We had great views, the window from the dining room looked over to the Alamo dome, the another huge window in the living room looked over the Riverwalk, it was gorgeous!

The first night we went to Mi tierra, a favorite of ours! It’s a landmark in San Antonio and so there was a hour wait, which we didn’t mind…the margarita’s are fabulous there! Big D asked the los trovadores(strolling musicians) to serenade me with a love song, they sang ”Amor, amor.” He’s a big romantic!

Mi tierra also has one of the best bakery’s….we stopped by there before we left town and picked up some goodies!

Sunday we spent the day doing the tourist thing. We went to the Alamo, it’s beautiful and it’s history is rich.

We watched two girls get ready for a photo shoot for their Quinceanera…

After the Alamo, Big D surprised me with a buggy ride around the city. It was a great opportunity to get some great photos and that I did! We happened to get a really sweet driver, who decided he would take the “long” way, which was fine with us, we enjoyed chatting with him and seeing the sights. “Jesse” our horse did a wonderful job too!

Isn’t he gorgeous?!

Just one of the gargoyles on the Smith Young Tower, amazing piece of architecture!

I took a lot of photos (about 450 I think), from our carriage ride, our boat ride down the river and our walking tour, LOTS of photos! I will put some on my Flickr page, in the next day or so if you want to see more.

On Sunday night we had reservations at a place called Fig Tree. It was a delightful experience from the time we walked up to the door till the moment we left….they greeted us at the door by name, wishing us a happy anniversary, then showed us to a very quaint table on a balcony overlooking the River. It was gorgeous! Our tuxedoed waiter brought us champagne to toast the occasion, courtesy of the owner. At this point my husband surprised me with a small package out of his pocket! Now he wasn’t suppose to do that because he already gave me my gift a few months ago…but he’s a sweetheart and loves to surprise me and he did that! Inside that little package were the most beautiful 1 carat diamond earrings! It was one of the best dinners we have ever had! I had the Lobster Bisque which was so creamy and rich! We both had the Beef Wellington with grilled asparagus and roasted garlic mashed potatoes. For dessert we treated ourselves with the Bananas Foster, which was out of this world! If you are ever in San Antonio and want a meal that will knock your socks off, make reservations at Fig Tree, you will not be sorry! 

To make the dining experience even more perfect, we could hear a bagpipe being played somewhere further down the Riverwalk. Our waiter said there was a gentleman who plays every night and the music drifts down the river…it was beautiful! On our walk back to our hotel, we found the bagpiper and listened to him play for awhile…who would have thought you’d find that in San Antonio!

Monday before we headed home we drove out to Lackland Air Force Base, I wanted to see where my son was when he was in boot camp. The place is huge and I only saw the front! Then we circled by our old townhouse, Brandon wanted a picture, he couldn’t remember where we lived. We lived in San Antonio 17 years ago. This was the first time we had been back. This was a wonderful weekend getaway, and the best part….I spent it with the person I love the most.

During intermission our new friends and the two gentlemen that had the same seats as us, came over  and told us to come sit by them since no one ever sat in the seats next to them! The gentleman and his partner expressed to us how upset they were that they moved us, I was really touched by their concern that we enjoy the show from this awesome view. So, for the second half of the show, we were back in those excellent seats with our new friends who really made the show a lot of fun. Especially when the guy next to Miss Priss was trying to hook her up with one of the singers as he was singing “wanna know what love is!”

Celtic Thunder is a show not to be missed!! If you get the chance to see this show, make sure you do! Oh and I can answer if they wear anything under their kilts with the seats we had! Thanks Shelly, so glad I won the tickets, it was a wonderful night!

Saturday Big D and I left for San Antonio for a long romantic weekend to celebrate our 25th anniversary which is Wednesday. I’ll post with photos about that (well, not all of it ) tomorrow!

He hasn’t lost a thing….still a hottie!!! Enjoy! I did, hope you do too!

LINE DRAWING

Link fixed!

Thanks Leanne!

It was built by Rudy and Ruth McLaughlin approximately 25 years ago, it has 2 bedrooms, and is 1700 square feet. It is made of marble from Ball Ground, Georgia and granite from Stone Mountain, Georgia. He was a truck driver and he told his wife that one day he was going to build her a castle – this is the result. That is kinda sweet actually.

View thanks to Google Earth, see the moat around the castle!

There is a moat that is actually a swimming pool, as you see the pool is in the back. I’m thinking they have their own “lazy river!” A pool equipment building mimicking the “castle” has been built behind the castle. It has what looks like two figurines on top of that building – of course with a diving board for the pool. There are two drawbridges that are believed to act as garage doors. There are gnome figurines on the column tops at the driveway entrances as well as on the peak in front of the castle.

Interesting, huh?

It’s a gorgeous day here in Georgia, as you can see from the picture I took from my front door! Blue sky, puffy clouds, sun’s shining, what more can we ask for? Hope you are having a beautiful day too!!

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