5 Years!

On May 15 Monty and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary.  It just so happened that my mom was in town the weekend before for a baby shower so she was more than happy to volunteer to watch Mia for the night so we could get away.
I met Monty in Salt Lake after work.  I had it all planned out and it was a total surprise to him. We started by dropping his stuff off at the Raddison Hotel in downtown Salt Lake.  Then we walked over to the new City Creek shopping center in downtown.  It was an amazing place to go shopping.  Most of the mall is indoors but it has a huge retractable roof.  Inside it is beautifully landscaped and has great shopping.  There were all kinds of rocks, rivers, waterfalls, and plants.

In one of the outdoor areas they have this massive fireplace.  Monty is not a little guy but he looks little next to it.  Seeing as the weather was perfect outside, the fireplace wasn't on.  I'm sure if it was there's no way Monty could have sat so close.

 After a little shopping and exploration we went to dinner at Shogun Restaurant.  It's a traditional Japanese restaurant where you leave your shoes at the entry and sit on mats on the floor.  Monty cheated and put his feet in the hole (I guess when you have legs that long with bad knees it's OK to cheat).

 They didn't have any utensils on the table and didn't even offer them so we had to practice using our chopsticks.

 I'm guessing if we had asked for forks they would have had them but we did OK.

 The following morning we got up and headed down to the point of the mountain (about halfway between Salt Lake and Provo) for another surprise.

 We went paragliding.  We took Trina's camera so we could both take pictures but unfortunately I can't get the pictures off of Trina's camera right now so we just have some from our camera.  My glide was about 20 min because we were floating nicely and kept getting updrafts.  Monty took pictures of me from the top of the mountain while we waited for his pilot.
Me on a fly by with my pilot behind me.

 Me soaring away

 Monty's first flight was much shorter which meant that her got to go again.  This worked out well because then I could take pictures of him from the top of the mountain.
All ready to go.

 I even got a video of Monty's second take off.  He did really good.

Monty soaring to the ground below.

It was a really nice weekend getaway and we had tons of fun.

Thanks for a great 5 years Babe!