Jon and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary in June but just now had the opportunity to get away and celebrate like we wanted. Jon's parents graciously stayed with Nolan and we left Saturday evening and headed downtown Indy to stay at the new J.W. Marriott. Beautiful!
That night we walked downtown and ate at Weber Grill- it's one of my favorite restaurants downtown, however my favorite entree is the lettuce wedge with steak skewers and I LOVE their bleu cheese! Apparently you're supposed to avoid that when your preggo so I had to settle for a ranch lettuce wedge instead. It was still a great meal together though!
When we booked the room, we booked the Romance Package, which included a high rise park view room, chocolate covered strawberries and champaign, and then free breakfast buffet for two in the am with late check out (which was amazing!). It was perfect!
My handsome husband!
The view from our window
The beautiful room!
Our strawberries and juice :)
Pretty sweet!
So on our way down the elevator on our way to dinner, we rode with a very nice man- to say the least. We made small talk with him and he asked if we were in town for the Brickyard 400- the Nascar race for those who are not familiar. We said no and explained our visit to the hotel. He said, well, I've got two great tickets in my room that my clients just canceled on- would you like them? We quickly thought through our options (babysitter, time, heat, etc) but said, "um, sure!" Jon had never been and I had told him I'd like to at least go once since we live in Indy! We offered to pay but of course he would not let us. He ended up giving us seats in the Paddock Penthouse seating along with an escort to the race with free parking to avoid traffic!! :) Praise God for surprise blessings!
Before we left on Saturday, Jon's parents offered to let us take his dad's convertible and we said- well, okay. Boy were we glad we did when we got in the line for that escort! :) We felt like we were living the high life! Ha!
The best picture I could get of the escort. We were ridiculously giddy during the whole drive.
A view of the race
We were just off of the brick finish line and had a great view! Here's Reba singing America the Beautiful- she doesn't even have to try!
And Rascal Flats doing the National Anthem- amazing!
You can see the finish line just off to the right
We had such a wonderful time! What a special weekend to celebrate 5 wonderful years together! And we pray that God will bless that man for providing us with such a special opportunity! Here's to the next 5!!
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