10 years!

I can't believe how quickly the time goes! Lina and I just celebrated our ten year anniversary. We met in Wisconsin Dells in 2004 when Lina was on a student work and travel visa and just happened to come into Denny's for a job :) The past decade has seen us both graduate from college, Lina get her masters degree, lots of money spent on packages and phone calls, moving to London, moving to Brighton, and lots of travelling in between! Who would have known that those crazy, sleep-deprived summer nights would bring us to where we are today? 

We both felt a lot of pressure to try to make the anniversary special and I think we definitely succeeded! Our original plan was to go to dinner on Wednesday and then camping from Thursday night after work. The camping unfortunately fell through as we didn't have the foresight to book ahead! So we went ahead with a delicious dinner at a local Vietnamese restaurant that we are in love with and back home Lina had a surprise for me. Since we weren't able to go camping, Lina set up a campsite in our living room and we spent the evening watching our home videos from our tent on the living room floor and eating chocolate cake :) Lina also got me a wedding band (I haven't had a proper one yet!) and had it engraved. I'm definitely one lucky lady. 

We both took the day off on Friday as we had planned to be camping so we spent our morning with our friend, Linas, who was visiting from Italy... then took a short train ride to a nearby town, Lewes, with our bikes. It's was a beautiful day that was perhaps (dare I say!) a bit too hot. We cycled 7 miles to a pub which rents out canoes and went canoeing for an hour. We wanted to practice for a bigger trip we are doing next month! We then cycled the 7 miles back and tiredly made our way back home. We then had a shower and a rest before enjoying a great night out :)

We have both changed a lot over these years, those old home videos we watched as a testament to that!, but I'm blessed to still have such a caring, funny, creative person to share my life with and look forward to watch adventures our future will bring!