5 Year Anniversary

5.18-5.20.2001

Since we haven't ever done anything big for any of our anniversaries, and had a pretty low ket honeymoon, we decided to take a fun trip for our fifth anniversary.

Hallie got to go and spend a couple of nights at Grandma and Grandpa's and she was thrilled!

On our way!

We started our trip by going to Red Rock Brewery for lunch, which is one of our favorite places to eat in Salt Lake. I love their French Onion Steak Sandwich! YUM!

After lunch, we headed to this beautiful place and did an endowment session. I hadn't ever been inside the Salt Lake Temple other than for weddings, so it was great to be able to do a session there, and it was a great way to start our trip.

My handsome husband.

We had a little bit of time after coming out of the temple before we could check-in at our hotel, so we wandered Temple Square for awhile, even though it had been raining.

We were able to stay at The Anniversary Inn downtown, and it was really fun.

The Savannah Room

That night we went to dinner at Biaggi's at the Gateway, which is fabulous if you ever get a chance to go. After that we decided to go to a movie, a rarity for us. But it was nice to not be on a time constraint, or worry about getting home or anything like that, but just be able to enjoy the night together.

Staying at The Anniversary Inn included in-room breakfast, which was unfortunately not very tasty.

Before we headed out we had a firefighter interrupt us getting ready for the day and showered. I guess the pipes in our room or something like that had leaked down the ceiling and set off the fire alarm. It was quite the ordeal. :)

After getting everything settled with them, and our stuff all packed up, we headed up to Midway to stay at the Zermatt Resort for a night, and for Eric to attend a conference for CASA.

On the way up we drove through snow, yes snow! Not okay!

After arriving at the Zermatt, we had lunch with some of Eric's CASA friends, and Eric got checked in for his conference. I couldn't check into our room for a few more hours, so I headed back to Park City and enjoyed so great shopping at the outlet mall while Eric was in a couple meetings.

The rest of that day was pretty non-eventful, we just hung out and watched the season finale of The Office.

The next morning I woke up to this beautiful view.

Eric was already in meetings when I got up, so I went downstairs to the cafe and got breakfast, then wandered the grounds. It really is beautiful up there.

After spending the day relaxing, and checking out of the hotel we headed back to the outlet mall for Eric to do some shopping, then we hit Eric's one request...eating at the Blue Iguana in Park City. He actually wanted to eat at the Red Iguana in Salt Lake, but we didn't make it, though it is supposedly better.

Eric was definitely a happy camper, and it was definitely very good food.

It was a wonderful little getaway to celebrate 5 years!