So this is a quick rundown of our mini break last last weekend!
We left home on Saturday morning at about 11am only because Sam was working the night before and he was so tired.
We dropped Gabriel off at the kennels, then we were on our way! While he was getting ready before we left, I made us some sandwiches to have on the journey.
In the car we put some cheesy 80’s music and were singing it all the way up! Hahahah! We are quite crazy.
Reached Edinburghat about 2.30 and then spent a WHOLE HOUR looking for the house!!! When we finally found it, it was lovely. Huge with 12 rooms. An old Georgian house about a few hundred years old or something. It was an old couple running it and they were lovely. The rooms had the traditional typical dressing table and drawers and all.
Anyway as soon as we washed up a bit then we went straight out again! The fringe festival had already started so there were loads to see all over the place. The whole places was filled with energy and everyone was busy and happy. It was great! On the street, there were random performers all over. Jugglers, dancers, bag-pipe players, comedians, clowns, people playing on dustbin drums….etc etc ETC! It was just all over!!!
Got hungry again soon and got a sandwich at a café with cheese ! I don’t eat lot of it (cheese) . I do eat light cream cheese or cottage cheese on occasion but am generally not a cheesy person. But on our break, I think I ate more cheese in that 4 days then I do in a whole year! No, really, I am serious!
Saturday night, we sat in an old traditional british pub and had finger food and some wine. All tired so we didn’t feel like a large meal. So we had stuff like Nachos and wedges.
Sunday! Our 1st anniversary! We woke up, gave each other a kiss and wished each other then faster got ready and went to church. When we got back, we said a prayer and lit our marriage candle. It’s a big fat candle that we had lit from the pastorial candle on our wedding day. And we are supposed to light it on every anniversary. Usually people choose white or cream candles. Ours is green!!! With Gold and cream ribbons tied around it.
After that, out again we went! Drove down to the coast and had a long leisurely walk. Hold hands, talk and laugh for a whole 2 hours we did that. We actually do that often. Believe it or not sometimes we just make sounds and not talk a lot but pretend we are having a conversation! Ha ha ha! Sounds weird right? We are so weird lah I tell you!
Then we went back into town and had lunch at a place called Mussels Inn. So you can guess whats mainly on their menu! They sold mussels cooked in various styles by the pot! Either half or a 1 kilo pot. And there’s unlimited supply of fresh crusty bread to sweep up the gravy / sauce. So we ordered half kilo mussles morrocan style, and another half kilo cooked in wilted leek and cream. Also, as Sam and I love oysters (we usually have it raw with lemon), we ordered ½ dozen of them but different style. It was grilled with blue cheese and bacon. I thought it was too heavy although it tasted lovely and sam really loved it.
I bought him a black watch kilt (hes been wanting one for ages!) and he looks damn good in it, and he bought me a celtic ring from the castle and also a dress and a skirt. He has very good taste.
Then we walked to the river and watched the parade for 2 hours! It was crowded like mad and sam let me sit on his shoulders so I could see the parade. Too short lah, cannot see otherwise.
The people in the parade were throwing sweets and beads and stuff to the crowd and sam was trying really hard to catch them for me. Did manage to get a few! I got a set of green beads!
Oh (Sarah if you are reading this, I forgot to tell you this bit!!!)…an old Chinese woman walked up to me slowly with a very slight smile. She was looking at me as she was walking over so I stopped walking and was actually getting nervous. She handed me a hand folded lotus flower with a book mark tied to it. Something about the lessons we need to remember today. And it said “Tolerance, Truthfullness and Compassion.”. Then she walked away. And Sam and I just looked at it and thought, “Cool! An anniversary present! And a lesson to remember”. So that was quite awesome.
That night for our anniversary meal ( I wore the new skirt sam bought me) we decided to try something new so went to eat at a posh Mexican restaurant. Had this stuffed chilli dish that made smoke come out of our years but it was really nice tasting surprisingly! It was lovely!
Then next day after breakfast, we drove back down. On the way we stopped at Holy Island, and Bamburgh. I love the castle there. Had some fish and chips on the beach, fed some birds then away home we went but not before we picked our baby Gabriel up first.
And that was our break. Phew! FUN and tiring and all in all, lovely.
So we been married a whole year now. It does not feel like it. Feels like a year away from home but not a year that I have been married. Sam is a wonderful man and a good husband. One day he will make a good father too. We can only pray that God grants us the ability to stay strong and keep our marriage fresh and always full of love.
