5th Wedding Aniversary

It's hard to believe but DeeAnn has actually put up with me for 5 years. Yesterday we celebrated our wedding anniversary. Since wood is the traditional gift for #5, I allowed her to drag me up to a nice bed breakfast located up Ogden Canyon.

The Alaskan Inn, in Ogden Canyon

The main lodge of the Inn

Our Cabin, the Windsong Lodge

Set up the canyons, surrounded by pines and aspens and mountains

There we has a private cabin decorated in a woodsy theme. After making a brief stop to look at RVs and the Camping World store on the way up, we found the Inn, checked in, and had a little time to relax.

Our room, complete with a fireplace

For dinner I had read about a new Mexican restaurant that Salt Lake Magazine had rated as the best Mexican Restaurant of 2009. It was in the new Junction area of Ogden, where the old mall used to be. The restaurant was busy and it was a good thing we had made reservations. I did see a new pasta, pizza and salad restaurant next door that we need to try out at some point. After dinner we made our way back to the Inn where we watched some old videos of our wedding day.

Jacuzzi tub in the middle of the room

Kitchenette included a fridge, sink and microwave.

The Inn is located along the Ogden River

Saturday morning included a nice breakfast delivered to our room consisting of a Belgian waffle, bacon, hash browns, orange juice and hot chocolate. And that was just my breakfast! We finished breakfast, packed up and headed off.

Our cozy little cabin

It was lightly raining as we left Ogden, and started raining pretty good as we made our was south through the Salt Lake valley. We stopped for a few minutes at the IKEA store, picekd up a few items, and began our trek home. As we drove past the point of the mountain it began to turn from rain to snow. That continued for some time until we hit Orem and then it pretty much stopped raining and snowing and everything else. The animals were all glad to see us and we have returned to our Saturday afternoon routines.