Our First Anniversary

Where has the time gone? Last weekend Jonathan and I celebrated our first anniversary! It seems like our wedding was just yesterday. We've had a great first year of marriage! We decided to celebrate by spending the weekend in the Museum District. We stayed at Hotel Zaza which is where we stayed after our wedding. It's walking distance to Hermann Park and the museum district. We wanted to stay there for our anniversary since we were a little too busy to enjoy the area the weekend of our wedding.

We started our wedding weekend by going to dinner at Oxheart. It was an amazing dinner. The place had maybe 10 tables and the chef presented most of the dishes to us personally.

A lot of the dishes had these beautiful edible flowers. So cool!

Best carrots ever!

Quail breast on the right and thigh wrapped in turnip on the left.

Smoked beef leg with cucumber, herbs, and a something made  from seaweed  on top.

Fennel mousse, delicious!!!

Us all dressed up!

After dinner we headed back to our hotel and cut into our wedding cake. We fortunately got a new fresh cake instead of eating a year old defrosted cake. Since the baker got the filling wrong in our wedding cake they made us a fresh top tier with the correct filling: cream cheese icing! Yum! It was delicious. We opened some champagne, watched our wedding video, and reminisced about our wedding day.

Our cake! They did a beautiful job.

Yum!

Saturday we went to the Museum of Fine Arts and saw the special Picasso exhibit as well as the main exhibit. I didn't realize this but I guess I'd never been to the Museum of Fine Arts. It's a great museum. The Picasso exhibit was awesome and the main halls had Monets, Van Goghs, Picassos, Cezannes, etc. Afterwards we walked through the sculpture garden and walked around Hermann Park briefly before going to dinner.

This is a cool light installation in the tunnel connecting the two MFA buildings.

This scultpure moved and I thought it was cool!

We walked through the whole park before realizing that this was a sculpture!

We ate at Roost for dinner.

Sunday was our actual anniversary, April 14th! I was still in shock that it was already here but that wouldn't keep us from celebrating! We had brunch at Monarch in Hotel Zaza and spent the afternoon at Hermann Park. Lucky for us the Japan Fest was going on in Hermann Park! We walked through the rose garden, watched Taiko drummers, walked around the lake, and found a comfortable spot to sit along the lake while listening to the musicians. It was pretty perfect. I may have gotten incredibly sunburnt in the process but it no biggie haha. 

There was a great view of our hotel from the park.

Hermann Park is one of my favorite places in Houston!

Married for a year!

Drummers!

They started along the reflection pool and marched up to the stage.

The flowers on the pool were also part of the festival and glowed at night.

So after the festival we headed home and just planned on relaxing and getting ready for the work week. However, we have the best friends in the world and we came home to this:

                                   

Colleen and Rachel are the sweetest ever! We loved our surprise dinner while listening to the music from our wedding. It was the perfect ending to our weekend and we were blown away by how thoughtful our friends and family are. We received so many congratulations, phone calls, and cards. Thank you to everyone for making our wedding so special and for all the happy words you gave to us on our anniversary. It's been the best year and we have many more to come! I love you Jonathan! Thank you for being my husband and always standing by my side!

-Chelsey