Exchanging Roses for the Big Five

Friday, May 9th, was Ter and I's 5 year anniversary. If you're reading this, happy anniversary, baby!

Ter surprised me with a spectacular bouquet of red roses and white lilies from Victor Michaels. The smell is incredible! I think they're the most beautiful bouquet he's ever gotten me - and he's given me lots of gorgeous flower arrangements over the course of our relationship. I do so love getting flowers from him! And for the first time ever, I sent him a dozen red roses at work today too.

Photo: Roses from the bouquet of red roses and baby's breath I got for Ter.

Our actual celebration, though, will have to wait as we're out of town this weekend and too busy to do anything special. Next weekend we'll do a romantic dinner at Normand's, our traditional anniversary spot, where yummy French food meets immaculate service. Then we head out to Miquelon Lake Provincial Park for four nights of camping. Ah, camping. Night-time fires, day-time painting, sleeping in, and general laziness (accompanied by liberal doses of Amarula). Sigh. Perfection in a vacation.

This will be our first camping trip of the season with hopefully two or three more to come before the dreaded winter rolls back in. Let's hope for plenty of sunshine and anorexic mosquitoes while the summer lasts.

My goals for our camping trip? Lots of painting, of course, and taking as many reference photos as I can. Particularly of the sky and close up shots of trees. I promise to share a few when I get back.

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