It's Your Anniversary, Isn't It?

On Sunday, June 26th, we celebrated our first wedding anniversary with what we like to call "Brandi* + Brady Day O' Fun."

We started the morning out with brunch at the Grand Concourse - the site of our rehersal dinner. This is a MUST DO in Pittsburgh. The food is delicious AND they have an antique doughnut machine that makes them fresh and $3.50 bloody mary's and mimosas!

After a glorious meal, we headed to the Pittsburgh Zoo. Going to the Zoo was one of our favorite things to do in Chicago, so it was great see some of our favorite animals.


Let's just say that our animal friends in Pittsburgh were feeling a little frisky during our trip. "Woodn't" you know that elephants eat wood?

Monkeys engaging in some romantic action.

We're keeping things PG here, but let's just say that this bear did a little "scratch n' sniff" twice while we were present.

In the words of Brady, "I like the Pittsburgh Penguins." - lol.

Bowling was next up on the schedule, but we found out that it wasn't open until 6. So we took our talents elsewhere - to the putt putt course. How fitting was it that the theme of this course was animals!

Lions and tigers and elephants, oh my!

After Brandi* pulled a Rory McIlroy and bombed the back five, Brady won by 4 strokes. Our golfing didn't stop there. We then went over to the driving range and hit some balls.

After a wonderful dinner at Ditka's, we then headed to the Bonkowski's to eat our wedding cake. Armed with our cake cutter, we opened the 365-day-old box to find...

Our cake. If you look close at the top, you will see a green streak that just may be mold. To the far right of that, you'll see where I dipped my finger in for a taste. Let's just say it was not good.

For all of those out there about to get married, see below for the directions on the proper way to freeze your cake!

Well there you have it! Our day-long celebration of our first year of marriage! We look forward to many more great years and many more great blog posts ; )