Best. Anniversary. Ever.

This weekend Hubby and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. Normally we would go somewhere for a nice meal but we wanted to do something a bit special this year so we booked ourselves into the Four Seasons hotel in Palo Alto on Friday night. We had eaten there once before and the meal was exquisite, but it is one of the places that you have to drive to so we had wanted a good excuse to go back and stay over so Peter could enjoy the wonderful wine and not have to worry about getting us home!


As that hotel mainly caters to business guests Friday night is the quietest night of the week, and the restaurant was practically empty. Friday night is also when they run their half price wine offer, so we were able to get a rather divine pinot noir that would normally be way out of our price range!! :-)



The meal was, once again, exquisite! I cant remember word for word what I had to eat as the titles were quite fancy, but essentially I had a chilled tomato soup with mini croutons and some kind of cream dolloped in the middle, followed by snapper with sun dried tomatoes, marsala soaked raisins and almond couscous (this is actually what I had the first time we ate there so I already knew it would be good!) Now, to clarify just how good this meal was, I hate sun dried tomatoes and I have never voluntarily eaten a raisin in my life, but I cleared the plate and it was delicious!!!










For dessert we both had the doughnut balls which came with chocolate Guinness sauce and salted caramel sauce for dipping. O.M.G!!! We had to restrain ourselves from drinking the rest of the sauces when we had run out of doughnuts!!

We finished our wonderful evening with a couple of drinks at the bar then retired to our room. It was only one of the basic rooms, but it was still really nice!! One wall was all floor to ceiling windows with views over the San Francisco bay and ...... errrr ....... Ikea.

Yep, they really are the same all over the world!!

We had a nice lazy morning on Saturday reading the paper in bed, then a wonderful brunch back in the restaurant (crab cake with poached duck egg and Parmesan creamed spinach - yum!) then Hubby checked into the spa for a nice long massage. Massages aren't really my thing, but I enjoyed having the room to myself while I caught up with my magazines.




We were home in time to catch up with some friends who were having a wee party at the pool in our complex and spent a nice hour or two drinking and lazing in the sun.

When dinner time rolled around we figured it would be near impossible to find somewhere nearby that would be able to seat all 10 of us so we decided to order an obscene amount of ribs from our local barbecue restaurant and take them back to ours. It wasn't pretty. It wasn't polite. We all stood around our kitchen island like savages and devoured the meat, and dear God it was good!!

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Quote of the night has to go to John, the only other guy there, who turned to Hubby after he'd had his fill and announced that it was now time to fight for the women!

Once everyone had digested their meal most people went off for some late night hot tubbing, but I was too tired so enjoyed a quiet hour or so sipping prosecco and listening to 50s/60s music - bliss!


Sunday was a bit of a return to normal as Hubby had to do some work and we had to go grocery shopping (boooooo!!) but we did manage to finish off our anniversary weekend in style with some more bubbles!!

So, like I said - best anniversary ever!! Thank you, Hubby, for yet another awesome year of marriage, and a wonderful weekend of celebration! How on earth are we going to top that next year?!?!?!

LOVE YOU!!! xxx