Anniversary

Thursday Ross and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary - which seems a little crazy to me! Time has flown by, and I feel like we should have a quaint little house with a nursery all set up - but that is just not the path God has planned for us. It's been such an interesting life and not at all what I could have expected, but it's been perfect... hand taylored for us.

I can honestly look back and see everything we've accomplished together - surviving the first few years of teaching, getting through law school, sometimes really having to scrimp and save to make ends meet, being totally creative and spontaneous with our weekends... and through it all totally falling more in love with each other. Ross makes me laugh harder than anyone I know.

I hope we have many more happy years together!

For our anniversarys, we've decided that taking a trip is the most fun for us. Our honeymoon was an adventure, and this year we decided to go down to Kentucky and tour the Bourbon Trail which is the touring of several distilleries with tasting (of course) at the end. Hence why you would go through several of the same type of tours. We also stayed at an amazing bed and breakfast one night and then spent a few hours at Mammoth Caves (we were going to camp there 1 night, but severe thunderstorms primaturely ended our little trip).

Hanging out at the B and B on one of their many hammocks.

This Bed and Breakfast also had an Alpaca farm where they made a lot of handmade things to sell. They wouldn't let us touch them - but Ross still tried.

This one was giving us the stink eye.

This house was built right before the Civil Way by a plantation owner... slaves did most of the construction (this is so baffling to me as a Yankee to hear someone say this and be walking through a house that was created by forced labor).

Ross and I at Wild Turkey taking our shots after the tour.

This was a really cool distillery - Maker's Mark. They had an amazing tour, and I learned more than necessary about how Bourbon is made. These are the distillery tanks.

Mash - this made the whole place smell like pizza baking.

Barrels that are stored for at least 6 years - the expansion of the liquid into the wood during the summer and the constriction of it during the winter is what gives Bourbon it's amber color and distinct taste - interesting huh?

Best part of the tour.

We also visited Abraham Lincoln's childhood home. Don't be deceived - this is his boyhood friend's home - not his... seemed like false advertising to me, but hey, it was still enjoyable.

It was so hot down in Kentucky (I think this seems to be becoming a trend in the southern states) that going down into Mammoth caves was down right pleasant. It was hard to take pictures down there, but it was really neat to see how water caved out these rooms under ground.

Entrance down into the caves - wish it would've stayed nice for us so we could enjoy another day there, but alas - not to be.

It was a really fun trip. We got home on Sunday and started packing our upcoming singles trips - Ross to Philly and me to Grand Rapids.