8 years…and counting!

This past weekend we celebrated our anniversary (8 years) by going to Evansville, In. We picked this destination solely on the fact that there was a nice hotel that wasn’t super expensive to go to! Ha! We didn’t really care where we were going…we were just excited to go!

We left Friday morning after Matt got home from work. It was about a 4 1/2 hour ride, so Matt slept the whole way there. We traded cars with my mom for the weekend since she had the girls (thanks Mom!) so it really felt like vacation in the convertible!!!

When we got there I got a little lost, but we figured it out and we went to a World War II war ship. It is the only one of its kind left, and my brother tells me my grandpa actually served on a ship just like it!

The ship is behind Matthew…my camera was dying so I didn’t take the time to focus really well…

There were actually some Navy reservists serving their two week duty while we were there! It was actually really interesting to hear about the history and the restoration process!

From here we decided to check into our hotel. It was one of the hotels owned by the casino, so it was really nice. I made sure we had a river view room, and even opted for the king size bed. It was so nice to get away and reconnect. We went to dinner on the riverwalk that evening. We tried the casino, but left after about 20 minutes…feeding money into a loud machine just wasn’t really our thing! Ha! We even got room service dessert…mmmm…chocolate cake!!!

When we chose Evansville I had looked online and it sounded like there were things to do besides the casino…that didn’t prove to be the case, but we had fun with what we found!

We visited Angel Mounds. Matthew had never seen mounds, so I was excited to show them to him. These mounds were very much smaller than the ones I visited as a child, but it was still interesting!

After the mounds we went to Sonic for 1/2 price Happy Hour drinks…mmm….slushies!!!!!

Then we visited Indiana’s first Victorian home. It was owned by the Reitz family. We missed the first half of the video that gave the history, but they did something with wood or milling…or something!!!! Ha!

We didn’t get any good pictures of the house…but it was extremely gaudy! Everything was really over the top…think gold leafing EVERYWHERE!!!!

Our last night there we walked the riverwalk at sunset…just watching the boats and barges work. Then we had a nice steak dinner…cashed in our casino voucher…and ordered our room service breakfast for the morning. =) Neither of us had ever had room service before, so that was a special (expensive) treat!

Love you Matthew…more and more each day!