Trip To SLC

On Saturday Josh and I drove up to Salt Lake to celebrate the one year mark since our first kiss. The actual date was November 30th but we were just getting back from Washington and couldn't even think about being in a car any longer. So we did it the following weekend instead.

Two weeks after Josh and I had met and had been hanging out he and Devin asked me and Kelly out on a date. They wanted to take us to Salt Lake to go to dinner and see the lights at temple square. We went to this really nice greek/indian restaurant in downtown salt lake and then walked to temple square to see the lights. Unfortunately, we missed the memo that the lights turn off at 10 and we only caught about 15 minutes of them. So we decided to head back to the car when I spotted some more lit trees up a couple flights of stairs. I wandered up and we found a cute little ice skating rink. While Devin and Kelly jumped the railing onto the rink I dragged Josh under the pavilion where I could hear Christmas music playing from the loudspeaker. We stood there for a minute then Josh said, "Look." I looked around, not quite sure what he was talking about when I noticed some snow next to a tree about 10 feet away. When I turned back to Josh he was leaning in, and bam, we kissed. (Josh knew that I wanted my first kiss to be when it was snowing, hence the weird, "look" comment towards the snow pile)

So on Saturday we headed up to SLC and searched for our little restaurant. To our dismay, it closed down! So we wandered up and down the streets until we found something else that sounded good. We found another little Indian restaurant called the Himalayan Kitchen just a few blocks south, so we ate there. After we ate we walked to temple square and saw the lights. It's amazing how much work must go into that project every year! The trees are covered! Every branch! After that we headed to the ice skating rink. We watched people skate and even considered skating but we were already so cold from walking around that we decided to just snap a picture and head home. We stood under the same pavilion where it happened one year ago and bam, we kissed. :)

It was a great day. We had a lot of fun thinking about how this whole thing got started! Here are some pictures from our little trip!

Reenactment of the first kiss!





A manger display on the water. Really pretty.













Of course we took jumping pictures!







:)