Wrap Up #2

Daniel and I celebrated our first anniversary on December 20, 2009! It truly has been an amazing first year together and it is so hard to believe that a year has already gone by! It seems like just yesterday we were enjoying our big day!
We had high hopes of going somewhere amazing for our first anniversary together. However, our church decided to have its Christmas event(The Living Christmas Tree) on December 19,20, and 21 of this year. It usually is around the first weekend of December but this year there was a scheduling conflict and we had to move it to a later date. The Living Christmas Tree is an amazing witnessing opportunity for our church. If you are in the Knoxville area you should come next year. You can check it out here. Daniel is in the choir and I am in the orchestra and so we decided that we would not miss being a part of "the Tree" even though it fell on our anniversary. We celebrated the weekend before by renting a cabin in Gatlinburg just to get away for a couple of nights. So, with no further adieu...welcome to the land of tacky stores and funnel cake dreams...

We stayed in the cutest little cabin called Got Moose:


It was decorated for Christmas inside (which you know made me happy):










We had great views from our 2 balconies:


When we were looking for a place to stay, the description we read about this cabin said to enjoy amazing barbecuing outside on their grill. There was only one problem, we searched high and low for a gas grill and it was no where to be seen. Then we found the amazing grill by the front door...

Needless to say, we didn't do any barbecuing.

On Saturday we hit the town. After looking for the bar-b-que grill for so long we decided that bar-b-que sounded good for lunch:

We ordered a yummy appetizer of onion rings...my favorite:

After lunch we went to The Christmas place since Christmas is my favorite thing ever (even besides onion rings-and that's saying a lot):

(Do you see Santa's reindeer rounding the corner above?)After The Christmas Place Daniel let me play a game of SkiBall...I don't know where this attraction came from but I LOVE SkiBall!


Daniel played Frogger
And that was enough Arcading for me.

We found a store with some great masks. We considered buying them for next year's Halloween but my mask was $26 and Daniel's was $40. Maybe the Phantom of the Opera pays that much for a mask but not this ol' girl!
They were pretty fun though:

For those of you who know my husband you know that he HATES spiders. So you can imagine his reaction when he turned around and saw this:

After some window shopping we ended the evening by eating at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.


And a trip to Gatlinburg is not complete without one of these:

On our actual anniversary we didn't get home from our performance until around midnight. We were so tired, but we cut our top layer of wedding cake and took time to remember our wonderful day together one year ago.

Looking forward to year #2!