I still have my calandar from last year. I think I might keep it for awhile. It's really funny to look back and see the millions of appoinments for dance lessons, meeting with the florist, getting my hair trial done, dress fittings, etc. Being married is so much more fun than being engaged. 

I didn't think I would feel that way. I thought I'd miss wedding planning and all the attention. But I am loving this summer.

We weren't really going to do much for our anniversary because we had a wedding picnic to go to (the downside of getting married on a holiday - we will probably spend every anniversary at some sort of bbq), but we ended up celebrating on the 3rd instead. 

We both had off work, so we bummed around the house for a little while, got bagels for breakfast (new favorite = french toast bagel) exchanged gifts (another thing we weren't going to do, but oh well). I gave TJ an Apple gift card to start his new laptop fund (not very romantic, but whatever) and three cards (I just couldn't decide!). He gave me a dandelion necklace made with little bronzed dandelion leaves. Very pretty, but I'm very paranoid I'm going to break it.

We took the train into the city for the ice cream festival at Penn's Landing. I have always wanted to go to this, so I was pretty much about to pee with excitement when I was handed my spoon and set loose in the ice cream tent. And then we ran into a wall of hungry, sticky people proudly carting around with piles of empty ice cream cups and were shoved every which way before we finally found our way to our first stand. 

It was pretty disappointing. By that point in the day, most of the stands were down to just vanilla and you had to wait forever to get it. We fought our way through to get a few little cups before deciding we'd rather just walk around Penn's Landing, so we left and got snacks at Auntie Anne's. I'm glad we went because I get very excited about the ice cream festival every year, and now I know I'm not missing anything. Oh, well.

Afterwards, we walked to South Street to do some window shopping and people watching. After an hour or two, we were ready to eat, so we walked to Tangerine and got there 30 minutes early for our reservation. They sat us right away, so it didn't really matter.

We had been there once before for restaurant week with Andrea, Bob, Karin, and Chris, but we had to pick off a limited menu. This time, we got way too much food haha. We started with the Meze Tasting (hummus, baba ganoush, roasted peppers, feta, egglant fritter thingy, salami, etc.) and drinks (peach sangria for me, lemon soda for TJ). I think that enough would have been enough food, haha. TJ got pork with pomegranite stuff on it and I got a steak for dinner. I don't usually order steak out, but this was amazing. Seriously, the best steak I've ever had. After we split some strawberry shortcake to make up for the ice cream disappointment earlier in the day. 

We headed up towards Independence Mall afterwards and sat outside for some of the Philly Pops concert before we decided to cal it a night. 

Pretty much a perfect day.