A Night to Remember…
Posted by moniquestrickland on May 8, 2009
On Saturday 4/25/09, Dave and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary. We decided about 2 years ago, we would start taking turns planning the celebrations every year. This year, was his turn. We mutually decided not to go away anywhere this year, with so many vacations planned this year, that was enough. So the planning began….
I can’t keep a secret from him about what I am doing, but when it’s HIS turn, he doesn’t tell me anything! It kills me. I mean, I like surprises, but I like them when I don’t know they’re coming 
The morning was taken up by soccer games and swimming lessons, but once we got home, he arranged for his parents to arrive and so begun our afternoon.
He took me for a tour around Orlando…only difference is, it was in the air! We took a helicopter tour that was so incredible…I will remember it for the rest of my life. I only wished it was longer.
Then off for some shopping for a while – can’t knock that…until our dinner reservations. He took me to a place called Roy’s in Metro West. It was the single most amazing meal (with another one with a friend as a close second) I have had in my life!!! If you ever get the chance to go there, GO! We are NOT fancy people (contrary to what my friend Julie thinks) and having someone put a napkin in my lap and go down almost the entire menu and how they cooked each thing (half of which we didn’t understand) was foreign to us.
Anyhow, when I opened my menu, there was a note that said “Happy Anniversary” and a poem. Employees from the restaurant kept stopping by our table to wish us a H.A…and treated us like royalty. The best part…the dessert…The Hot Chocolate Soufle. A chocolate cake/brownie type thing with oozing thick dark chocolate on the inside, on top of a serving of raspberry sauce, and served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The plate had beautiful flowers decorating it, and in raspberry sauce, they wrote Happy Anniversary in Hawaiian (sp). http://www.roysrestaurant.com/roysclassics.asp
It was a night we will remember forever, and will cherish. It also opened up a whole new world for me, because had it not been for Dave’s eye disease, I would have NEVER agreed to go up in that helicopter…Now, I am planning our trip to do it over the Grand Canyon! Maybe Sky Diving will be next…there’s no tellin’!
