Daisies - the official 5th anniversary flower
Since we had the whole day to celebrate, we started off by heading to the farmer's market. Aside from our usual veggie shopping, we indulged in far too many anniversary treats. Possibly the tastiest farmer's market trip ever!
Vanilla Raspberry Cookie... delish!
Plus, Ruby got a new bone. A good day for everyone : )
Jeremy had planned a whole day of surprises which were centered around the theme "things we always say we should do in Salt Lake, but never get around to actually doing". We started by going to lunch at Stella Grill a cute little place we've driven past multiple times, but had yet to try. It was a super yummy lunch and a nice start to the surprises. After lunch, he drove us over to an industrial park near downtown, which I will admit stumped me at first. Turns out, this is the location of the new urban winery we've heard so much about. Kiler Grove winery grows their grapes in Paso Robles, CA, but blends and bottles their wine right here in good 'ol SLC. They had a number of wines to taste and we had a blast pretending we were back in Napa/Sonoma on our honeymoon. We bought a couple "everyday drinkers" and a nice zin blend to save for a future anniversary.
Our lunch spot
Cheesy couple shot at the winery : )
We then hopped on FrontRunner (our local commuter train) and rode up to Ogden where we wandered around the old train museum and the antique/trinket shops on their historic main street. Although much shorter, the train ride reminded me of one of our adventures back when we were just dating and we took the train from LA to Seattle. Fun times!
Self-portrait on the train
Welcome to Ogden!
Me and an old steam engine... Grandpa would be proud!
Always the artist, Jeremy found a piano to play on 25th street.
After riding back down to SLC, we headed home for a quick wardrobe change before dinner (yet another surprise). On our honeymoon, we bought four nice bottles of wine to save for our 5, 10, 15 and 20 year anniversaries. We've had to modify the schedule a little bit to make sure we didn't let any of them get too far past their drinking time (i.e. we drank the bottle designated for year 5 last year). Fortunately, the bottle we were planning on drinking on our 10th was maturing faster than anticipated, so we got to enjoy it this year! This particular wine was the most sentimental of all since it was from a winery that had to shut its doors due to financial problems. Thus, we will never have another bottle from this same place. It was a random little winery way up in the hills called Graser. We were the only customers there and the winemaker himself (along with a couple fabulous wine dogs) led us through the tasting. He was an eccentric old guy who we both just loved. When we purchased a bottle at the end of our tasting and told him we planned to save it for our 10th wedding anniversary, he whipped out a gold sharpie and insisted on signing the bottle! An all-around great guy. Anyhow, I digress. We packed up our Graser wine and walked up the street to Em's, a super cute restaurant in our neighborhood that we have been meaning to try (but were waiting for a special occasion). Dinner was amazing and the wine was oh-so-good. It aged better than either of us thought it would. Perfection! Somewhere I hope Mr. Graser was smiling, watching us enjoy his wine as the perfect cap to a great 5th anniversary.
Stuffed and happy post-dessert : )
Mr. Graser, pictured on the label of his most-delicious wine!
It's been a wild ride these last 5 years and I can't imagine anyone better to have shared it with. Here's to many more. Happy anniversary, mister!
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