WOW! Two years of wedded bliss has flown by! What a wonderful life we share! We are so blessed to have each other! Well, we are... =) On April 29th, Tuesday, Matt sent me a dozen beautiful white roses while I was at work; (see above. Aren't they lovely!) it was so sweet and unexpected. For dinner that night we went out to Downtown Disney and ate at the Rainforest Cafe (after many different occasions, we've never been 'thrilled' with them--Slow, too busy, no personal attention, food okay) but we still had a nice time- It was a beautiful evening and a great place to people watch while we were waiting to be seated. Tourists are so funny lookin! We had decided a while back that for our anniversary we were going to go to the beach for the weekend which we were thrilled about because, apart from our honeymoon, hadn't been seaside alone as a couple...ever. Because of our limited time frame and crazy gas prices, we stayed in Daytona (http://www.daytonabeachresort.com/). Okay, so when we pulled up to the resort, we were so excited! It was a very attractive hotel, Waterfall sign, green grass, tropical trees, beautiful renovated buildings and over sized light fixtures and decor. We checked in and were given our parking pass and room key cards. After parking in their garage, we headed up new elevators and down tiled hallway to our corridor. All was magical until we found our hall. Our advertised and much anticipated private balcony was, in reality, a long, outdoor hall that connected all of the rooms the length of the building. Outside of each room was a plastic table and 2 chairs. We were not expecting this. Matt had researched (and for those of you who know Matt, understand this in depth 'research' I speak of) so many places and we grew up going to beach hotels and never have seen a set up like this. It just wasn't what we paid for. So after going to the front desk and they agreed that their website was, in fact, misleading, decided that since we booked through Orbitz, the hotel insisted that it was out of their hands. Orbitz then said it was in the Hotel's court so we requested a minute with the manager. We were praying and being super nice to everyone we talked to. They said they were booked and it looked like we were going to have to pay the full stay to cancel the reservation (which we could never afford and would have to just deal with it) when the manager realized how important this was to us and how misleading their information was. She 'checked for any cancelation' and blessed us with a room that was so much more than we could've ever HOPED for! It was gorgous! In the tower, on the 8th floor, stood our corner suite! Thank you Lord. He is always so good.
We had such a wonderful time! It was so good to get some sun and there was a lot to do. We even went to Pirates Cove and played putt-putt---I got 2 hole-in one's! We went to Bubba Gump's (the restaurant made after the Forrest Gump movie) and my meal came in a shrimp boat! The waiter asked us trivia and we sat outside near the ocean and under white lights; it was alot of fun!
Thank you Lord for the institution of marriage, for love and for blessing us with each other. It's a joy like no other.
