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22 years

 22 years married this year!

Simone & Simon...21 years x

Simon and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary the other day xx

20 years - a city break to celebrate.

A few weeks ago Simon and I booked a couple of nights at a hotel in the city to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. It's the city where we met when we were working together at The Renaissance Hotel (now the Sydney Marriott) We chose a staycation close to home to enjoy Sydney and all those things you never take advantage of in your home town in your busy day to day life. 

I never get over how beautiful the harbour is and how lucky we are to live surrounded by so many amazing spots!

We stayed at The Langham as we had never stayed there before and we loved that there was the Day Spa attached and it was in walking distance to The Rocks and several restaurants/bars.

It's a gorgeous boutique hotel with a lovely vibe. They also have a great new restaurant that recently opened " Kitchen on Kent" and the buffet there was amazing!

During our stay we booked in for a couple's massage and took full advantage of the pool and spa.

It was lovely to pop in here in the afternoon to relax and refresh before going out for dinner.

On one of the days we drove over to Bondi for a walk then headed to Watson's Bay for a seafood lunch. The blue skies and crowd made us feel like we were on holidays and miles away from home.

Also a Frose at lunchtime on a Wednesday definitely had us in vacation mode.

One afternoon we wandered down to The Rocks for a drink at The Lord Nelson. It's such a beautiful area with the old sandstone buildings and trees everywhere. 

We couldn't resist a stroll past Pottinger St in The Rocks, the site of our first kiss! Simon walked me to my car after work 23 years ago and the rest is history ;)

We chose our favourite Mr Wong's for dinner one night. The food never disappoints!

The cocktails were pretty good too.

Later on we walked off dinner by the harbour and enjoyed the pretty lights and buskers.

It was so lovely to take a couple of days off from normal routine and celebrate our anniversary.

I can't believe it's been 20 years! I'm looking forward to seeing what the next 20 hold x

Our Anniversary

Happy Anniversary Simon. 14 years and it just keeps getting better.

My lightbox message to Simon :)

PS - that's a quote from one of our favourite movies The Notebook :)

Celebrating our anniversary

Simon and I had a wonderful day on Tuesday celebrating our anniversary. Finn and Jasper were at school/kindy so we only had Noah with us :) We decided to have a lovely lunch out and you can't get any prettier than The Boathouse at Palm Beach. We also love the drive up there and as Noah slept in the car it was perfect.

The Boathouse was packed as it was the most gorgeous sunny day but we found a table in the courtyard in the shade. Everything looked delicious and I decided to order the vegetable frittata but when I was told that they had sold out I opted for the fish n chips. Yum! Simon had the Chicken panini and a small serve of salt and pepper calamari.  Noah decided to wake and join us for a hot chip or two. I love a lunch out,  I think I prefer them to dinners out. Not too sure why that is :)

We were going to go out for a cocktail and tapas and had a babysitter lined up but as Noah was a bit unsettled the night before we decided to send the older boys to the grandparents for dinner and a sleepover and pop Noah to bed ourselves.  Once he was in bed, we rustled up a little antipasto platter and cracked a bottle of champagne that we were given ages ago. Then we just sat and talked and laughed. It was great and such a change from our normal night time routine with the boys. It really made us realise that we have to take more time for just the two of us.

I decided to start a champagne chair collection which will remind us of happy, celebratory times. The one from Tuesday night will be the first one :)