First Anniversary

Wil and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary on Sunday. Hard to believe that it's been a year!! A few of our friends were also surprised -- seems a year has flown by faster than we could imagine.

Our first stop on Sunday was breakfast at the Cornerview Restaurant for breakfast -- our favorite spot in Concord. Breakfast was delicious as always; we ran into some friends and had our favorite waitress (Iris).
Next we headed to Funspot in the Weirs -- Wil wanted to play Star Trek pinball. Course, it was a bit busier than it has been other times we've been there; so Wil had to wait for his pinball game to get free. But he was able to play a few balls & I found a poker machine that I did well at (4th one was the charm). Afterward, we stopped for an ice cream at Sawyer's Dairy Bar in Gilford before heading to Maine.

As we drove through the rain, up 95 to Portland -- we couldn't help but reminisce about our wedding day and having the same weather a year ago: sunny morning, rain during the day and clearing at night.

We stopped at the Maine visitor's center in Kittery and got a few pamphlets. On our way north, we decided to swing through Old Orchard Beach (OOB). We had gone to OOB for our mini-moon after we got married, to relax and stare at the ocean. While we were there, we enjoyed the SoHo Pub -- touting itself as a British Pub in Maine. As we drove through OOB, we saw that it was open and stopped in for a drink.



After awhile, we were on our way to Portland for dinner at DiMillo's Floating Restaurant (http://www.dimillos.com/restaurant/). The restaurant is a converted car ferry that originally ran between New Castel, Delaware, and Pennsville, New Jersey. Later it ran between Newport and Jamestown, Rhode Island. In 1980, it was sold to the DiMillo family and converted into a floating restaurant, one of the largest in America.



Dinner was SUPERB!! We each started with a cup of clam chowder -- a New England classic -- it was rich, creamy and filled with clams. Wil ordered Frutti Di Mare (shrimp, lobster, calamari and mussels, simmered in spicy tomato sauce and served over angel hair pasta) -- it was filled with seafood, including JUMBO shrimp! I ordered Seafood Alfredo (shrimp, lobster and scallops, served over fettucini with alfredo sauce) -- it was FABULOUS!! Every bite was filled with wonderful seafood -- we were pleasantly stuffed.




outside DiMillo's -- we found a gentleman from Conway NH that took our photo




When we got home, we unwrapped our wedding cake topper. It had been in the freezer and I put it in the fridge last week to defrost. We unwrapped the cake and cut in -- it survived!! It was a delicious and moist as our wedding day. :^)


One year down....49 more to go!