That was the first surprise my love got me for our trip. Twelve roses for the year that we had been together and twlelve more in hopes for another year. :) I gave him a cookie cake with an inside joke between us written on it aaaaaand dressed up "goth " for him, which he seemed to really enjoy. The darker hair, the thigh high stockings, the corset, the lace up boots, the lacy panties, the black tank top, the black button up over shirt and the pleated skirt, made him have the most comical "oh yeah...." expression in the world. :P

The first day we went and ate lunch and the Spot which had really great burgers, then went to the hotel and settled in. Once we were unpacked and all that jazz we ordered room service watched tv and had a little "fun". Brandon had brought my version of "bubbly" which is actually sparkling grape juice so that was just such a wonderful thing to sip at after a romp in the sheets. He then gave my my present which was a starfire heart cut stone in a 10 karot gold ring. (I love it so much )

The next morrning we got dressed went to IHOP for breakfast, and since it was raining like there was no tommorow we went back to the hotel room and had a bit more "fun" (it was our aniversary trip after all XD.) Once the rain stopped we went to moody gardens and walked through the rainforest pyrimid. I took so many pictures in there its almost not even funny. We then went to the strand (one of my favorite places in the world). The strand is a really old part of galveston that has alot of beautiful old buildings and lots of neat and interesting shopping. We road the old fashioned elevator in Galveston square, drank REAL carbonated right then in there in front of your eyes fountain drinks at La King's soda shop (best damn soda in the world I tell ya), shared hand made ice cream at La Kings, and rumaged through the old military grade stuff at Colonel Bubbies army surplus store. If that wasen't enough we finished the second day with a trip to the beach and a romantic picnick on the shore.

The third and final day of our trip we woke up, packed out things, and got a police escort out to lunch. Brandon's day is a galveston police officer and he took us to one of the local resteraunts away from all the tourists and paid for our meal. We went back to the strand after that had some more awesome soda, shared a chocolate dipped marshmellow from Rocky Mountain candy shop, and went antique shopping. I bought only two things on the trip (other then food), I found the jewlery box of my dreams: its a foot and a half long with two doors that open on either side. These two doors conceal three drawers each. Then in the middle there are three bigger drawers and when the bottom drawer is opened you discover its a music box! I love it so much!

The second item is a dark green canvas messnger bag with a peach sign stitched on to the flap from Colonel Bubbies. Man if I was a cat I would live in that store (the owners cats live in the store and roam around freely). There are plenty of places to hid if I didn't want attention, plenty of people to pet me if I wanted it, plenty of doo dads to play with, and lots and lots of places for me to sleep.

After our last trip to the strand we made one more trip to the beach before heading home. This whole time I took 400 pictures and alot of them were of my traveling penguin XD she had never been the Galveston before even though I've been there quite a few times!

Well... that was my trip :) I hope you enjoyed the rant!