Today we celebrated our 17th anniversary by heading up to Julian with Kivah for pie at the Julian Pie Company. Caramel Dutch Apple for Scott and Boysenberry Apple for me. We split a side of cinnamon ice cream on top.
We walked around Julian a bit, Kivah got to make googly eyes at lots of friendly people, and we found out dogs aren't allowed in the cemetery No word on cats though...
We decided to drive home back the way we came instead of through Ramona like we usually do for two reasons. One, there have been lots of deadly accidents on the tail end of the road out of Ramona and there's no way to leave except on that road so I'm a little spooked right now. And two, there's an outlet mall on the Viejas Reservation that we never go to because it's far but it was on the way home.
(Also, on the winding road out of Julian we saw tons of deer, wild turkeys, and a turkey vulture!)
To tell the truth, we were missing much by not going for like 10 years. The only cool store, the Black and Decker outlet, is gone. Everything else is typical outlet mall shop except for Christy's Toy Outlet with all kinds of stuff. While Kivah and I waited for Scott to use the restroom I spotted an Eeyore Pillow Pet in the window. I do loves me some Eeyore! When I went in the bathroom Scott found out the price and when I came back he bought it for me :) The good news is it was a true outlet and we paid less than Pillow Pet or Amazon charges.
After that we headed back to town and stopped at Sonic Drive In in Santee for dinner. I wrote up this little description and posted it with a picture on Scott's Facebook.
The first week in June 2000 Scott and I were driving cross country (me back home, Scott to some city he had to find on a map the first time I mentioned it) in the biggest truck Hertz had and our Jeep on a trailer. Our anniversary fell on a Wednesday and we were in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We left our Pug Luckey and our guinea pig Noble in our room at the Motel 6 and wandered around to find some place "special" to eat. We ended up at a Sonic Drive In. 13 years later we celebrated at Sonic again, this time in Santee, and with our new Pug Kivah. 17 years have passed so quickly with my best friend. To quote Dave Matthews Band: "You and me together, we can do anything"
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Scott and I eloped so we sent out announcements after the fact and included the words from this song from The Nightmare before Christmas:
