Lucky 13!

Brett and I celebrated our 13th Anniversary Saturday. Monday was our real Anniversary, but that was Memorial Day and we had other plans. We wanted to do something different, so Brett mentioned that he has customers who own boats and do dinner cruises. We got the royal treatment because Brett called his contact at the company to ask about the different cruises and they took great care of us. That's one of the perks of his busisness. It was rainy and cool that day, but it ended up clearing up and we were able to see the city. Here we are waiting to leave the dock at Navy Pier.

We had a great dinner with a live band. Then we went out on the deck to watch the fireworks show. The city of Chicago does fireworks every Saturday and Wednesday during the summer. It was really a good show. We were right next to the barge that wsa setting the fireworks off. Since the weather wasn't so great, there were only like 180 people on our cruise. They can hold 600, so we had a great view on the upper deck and it wasn't crowded.

So, our dinner and drinks were free, we got souveneir glasses with our cocktails, they gave us a complimentary shrimp appetizer, we had the best table looking out the window and right next to the band, they gave us free pictures in a frame that they took of us on board, they took us in to meet the captain of the ship, and they brought us this enourmous dessert platter! Our waiter kept saying, leave room for dessert, one of everything. We had no idea they literally were going to bring us one of everything on the menu. We ate ourselves silly with desserts. They were all sooooo good!

This is the platter after we had eaten as much as we could eat. There was chocolate cake, brownie, peach and blueberry cobbler with ice cream, bread pudding with ice cream, cheesecake, strawberries, turtle cheesecake, rasberry cheesecake, whip cream, and candles. We did a lot of dancing to try and work off some of those desserts. The band played everything from slow dance music to Lady Gaga. They were really good. We had an absolute blast together. It's hard to believe it's been 13 years since we got married. I am so thankful for Brett and lucky to have him for my husband and the father of our children.