Wednesday, September 16, 2009

1 Year and Counting...

To celebrate our 1 year anniversary, we decided to take a little vacay to Scottsdale, Arizona. We were so excited about a trip together and to a place with some serious sunshine! We woke up super early on Thursday morning for our 7 am flight. It turned out great because we arrived in Phoenix at 9 am with the time change. However, to us, it felt like noon and we were getting so hungry! We decided we must visit In-N-Out while on this trip - so we headed there from the aiport. We pulled into the parking lot at 9:50 to learn they didn't open until 10:30...so we waited....


and it was totally worth it! In fact, we were number 6 by the time we got in and ordered at 10:20! Such yummy food - we even hit it on our way back to the airport on Monday. =)

After our trip to eat, we went to our hotel. This is the same hotel Mom and I stayed in last summer. We love the way it is set in the mountain and has such pretty landscaping for the desert!


We immediately went to the pool. It has been in the 60s and 70s in Pittsburgh lately, so we welcomed an overdose of dry heat!


and of course, Dave had to hit up the slide!

We had lots of yummy, long dinners together which was such a treat! It was fun to be away from work and just really hang out together, talk about our goals, ideas on life, etc. Here we are at the Roaring Fork - owned by same people as Eddie V's. So that was really fun - had a southwestern flare...green chili mac 'n cheese. Delicious!


We also got to spend an evening with Luke, Brett's best friend, and his gf Stephanie. We had not met her yet - so that was fun to get to learn all about her and catch up on Luke. We had a really good time with them and hope we get to hang out again soon! I think this restaurant was Chelsea's Kitchen. We had a great table outside, which turned out to be very hot! But we get so little of that up in PA, we were loving it anyway.

More outside eating and I have officially decided that everyone should always drink orange juice from wine glasses. I don't think it tastes any better - but certainly is more fun!

Fun, fun trip! Definitely a place we would love to go back too!

2 comments:

cristin steger said...

looks like fun!!!!

Lizzie said...

Happy Belated One-Year Anniversary!