Celebrating Year One

On July 23, Jacob and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary! Hard to believe it has been a year - and I go back and forth between feeling like it went really fast and that it went slow because of all the stuff we did.


We decided to spend our anniversary checking off some of our Rochester Bucket List items by biking around the city, eating, sitting & talking, and enjoying the super hot day. And eating. I forgot to get a picture at the planetarium, so it really looks like all we did was eat and drink...

10am - Breakfast of fried spam and caramel rolls

11am - Jacob tries a cigar from a local cigar shop. I chewed gum :)

12pm - Lunch at Dac Hoa, a wonderful Vietnamese/Thai restaurant.

Helmet hair :)

1pm - Dessert at Cheesey Eddie's - Amaretto Cheesecake! Cute little place. Then we bummed around South Ave, checking out a guitar store, the Hedonist Artisan Chocolate & Ice Cream shop (we only sampled - weird right?) and a bike shop.

Bliss!

2pm - Coffee at Equal Grounds, an LGBT-friendly coffee shop, where we sat in sweet arm chairs and talked about Singapore.

Jacob seems apprehensive sitting so near this monkey - he and monkeys do not get along.

3:30pm - Ring of Fire at the Planetarium - awesome (old) movie about volcanoes and earthquakes shown in the planetarium. Absolutely perfect activity for a 95 degree day. Plus we got hum Johnny Cash and ooh and ahh over the beautiful lava fountains.

He's half the man I thought he was...

4:30pm - Half pints at the Half Pint - adorable bar. When you buy a pint, you can split it between two beers (or ciders, as the case may be.)

It comes in pints?!

5:30pm - Incredible sushi dinner at Plum House (we had a groupon, score!). Look how gorgeous that is - and it tasted even better. We nearly finished it all too (actually, we did finish it later in the evening).

Left to Right: Miami Roll, Yummy Yummy Roll, Dragon Roll, and RocCity Roll

7pm - We went back to our apartment, popped some champagne and watched the wedding video that my cousin Stuart put together for us. It was fun to see it all again - from the comfort of our futon and without any of the pressure. We particularly enjoyed reliving the Groomsmen Bands rendition of 'I'll Make Love to You' - we can never thank you guys enough!

9:30 - Back out to the Old Toad, a great British-style pub (you actually have to have an accent to work there) for trivia. We were a bit late, but we managed to find a spot when some complete strangers welcomed us onto their team. We did pretty terribly - however, I felt truly Rochesterian (and nerdy) when I was able to correctly give the population of Rochester (210,000). It was ok that we didn't win - we came in second at the trivia game we went to on Wednesday night!! (Appropriately, the trivia game is called Geeks Who Drink - yep)

So that was our anniversary - our only one in Rochester. But we've really enjoyed spending the past year or two here, and we'll definitely miss parts of it! (Just not the drivers, pedestrians, or anywhere northwest of Avenue D)


A final picture of us at Charlotte Beach on Lake Ontario -