September 23 marked our one year anniversary, and while I am writing this more than a week later, I thought it was a momentous enough occasion to commemorate with a post.
We went to southern MN for a friends wedding on Saturday. It was in a beautiful church and the bride looked beautiful and the groom was stunning.
It was particularly nice because it was 52 weeks to the day that we were married, so we kept looking at the time and saying “Exactly one year ago right now we were…” and fill in the blank. We capped the evening off by having our first song requested and dancing to that. I cried a bit during that.
Then on our anniversary we slept in that morning, switched rooms (to the jacuzzi “suite”), got ready for the day and caught the first quarter of the Vikings game. We visited Schell’s Brewery (for those who don’t want to click, they are the second oldest brewery in the US, they brew Schell’s beer, Grain Belt, and 1919 Root beer, yum!) where Chris tried a bunch of different beers and I drank a lot of root beer (1919 is the original root beer, and is brewed by Schell’s under contract for another company).
After Schell’s we ate dinner at Kaiserhoff’s, a (obviously) German restaurant located in downtown New Ulm and then went back to the hotel.
The next day we visited Hermann the German (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attra…EWhermann.html), a large statue located on a lookout gazebo (versions of him can be found all over the world, I believe, judging by the posters around him, but I couldn’t read German, so I’m not sure). After that we did a little shopping downtown before watching the glockenspiel (http://www.newulmweb.com/citylights/glock.html).
We then had a massage (the woman even showed Chris how to massage me in a prenatal fashion, did you know getting your neck, lower back, or feet massaged too rough while pregnant can start labor?!) and dinner at Perkins (because that is what we did last year on that day) before heading back to the hotel.
We left the next day (Tuesday) around 10 and took a couple of scenic highways through southern MN before getting to the interstate.
~Jaci