High Five!

To celebrate our 5th anniversary, I secretly planned a weekend getaway for Brian and I. Brian knew I was up to something, but didn't know if we were just going somewhere for dinner or what. After packing his suitcase up without him looking, we drove the boys to our good friends house, and kissed our kids goodbye. I punched in an address into the GPS and told Brian to drive. He was clueless on where we were going, heading 2 hours north and figured we must be going to the middle of nowhere. He wasn't too far off. Our secret destination was the quaint tourist spot of Galena, Illinois.

We stayed in a nice condo, pretended to be rich ate at a fancy-smancy restaurant, and recklessly stayed up late watching TV and eating junk food, knowing we could sleep in to our hearts content in the morning without our two little alarms ringing/singing/whining in our ears.
We toured Galena's downtown and even went through President Ulysses S. Grant's home.

In the late afternoon and evening we went cross-country skiing along candle-lit trails and drank hot chocolate, and even the weather cooperated by getting close to 30 degrees.

We an awesome weekend, although I constantly felt like I'd left something important at home (our kids), but thanks to Nicole and Mark, Ethan and Gavin had a really fun time playing with their friends Markus, Jonah, and Gracie.

So with the first 5 down, here's to the next 5...

5 million years I mean... Eternity's gonna be great!