Not the typical 1-year Anniversary

It’s our One-year Marriage Anniversary today. Since both Ryan and I had to work today we decided to celebrate our Anniversary yesterday. Unfortunately since we do have jobs we weren’t able to get out of town for a romantic or exciting holiday. But we made the best of it and of course the whole point is really just to spend quality time together. On Saturday night we hung out with some of our closes friends here in Costa Rica: Caroline, Andy and Courtney. So Sunday morning we slept in recovering from the fun night prior (lots of beers and pool). When we finally got up mid-morning I made a hearty typical Central American breakfast; Pinto Gallo, eggs, bread, OJ and coffee. After taking our time drinking coffee and enjoying breakfast we decided to put together a plan for the rest of the day; which ended up being Not Much of a Plan at All.

What we did decide was to get out of the city. Just as we were leaving the house it started raining like crazy, fat cats and dogs. It was pouring down so much all the gutters in the streets were overfilling. But that didn’t stop us. We took a bus downtown then hopped in a cab to the train station thinking it would be a nice relaxing way to travel. A few dollars later on the cab’s meter we got to the CLOSED train station and then a few more dollars later we were back downtown getting on another bus. We didn’t really have a specific destination for the day so we had the cab driver drop us off at one of the closes bus stations. We ended up going to Heredia, a mid-size, popular town outside San Jose. We decided when we got there we would get on another bus somewhere else.

The rain had let up by the time we got to Heredia so we walked around town and took some pictures with fake hedge stone figurines. I am chill’n with some monkeys while Ryan is hanging with a crocodile.

Debb chill'n with the monkeys

Mommy & Baby Monkeys

Ryan hanging with the crocodile

Next we had a very romantic lunch at McDonalds. Hahaha!!! There isn’t much in Heredia so we got on another bus hoping to get further from the city. The problem was though we had no idea which bus to take. We finally decided on a bus to Santa Domingo and just in time cause the rain was starting up again. Ryan and I rode around on the bus for the next hour or so never finding a place that looked interesting enough to get off plus it was raining like crazy again. But instead we had good quality time hanging out on the bus answering a couples “how well do you know each other” survey and talking about whatever. We laughed at the thought that we were celebrating our 1-year Anniversary riding around on public buses.

Anyways the bus made its loop and ended back in Heredia. At this point we were pretty tried, it was getting late and frankly we didn’t know exactly where to go next so we got on one more bus and headed back to San Jose. For the rest of the evening we decided to stick with something safe; a nice Steak dinner at the Del Mar Restaurant. Dinner was the most typical, traditional part of our celebration. We had a pleasantly long dinner with cocktails, red wine, soup appetizers (to cut the chill from all the rain) and shared a steak entrée. And most importantly again enjoyed each other’s company. After dinner it was one more last bus home to finish the day.

Our celebration was definitely not a typical 1-year Anniversary but what can I say we aren’t exactly living a typical life right now either. We are living and doing what we want though, TOGETHER!!!

Kisses. Our first dance at the wedding.

Not the typical 1-year Anniversary

San Jose, Costa Rica