One Year and Beer

  If I look hot, its because I was!  Brewing in July is not the best thing to do, but when one runs out of home brew…its the only solution!  This past Sunday evening was brew day with my father and Samantha in attendance.  Thankfully Samantha was very gracious and allowed me to put my 6 gallon carboy in the guest bathroom tub so I didn’t have to worry about the fermentation temperature too much (yeasties like it around 70-75 and its 100+ outside today!)  I still used the swamp cooler setup as the house hits 80 inside mid-day (programmed thermostat) but everything seems perfect 2 days in.

So, in 4 weeks, give or take, I’ll have another batch of Nut Brown chilling in my refridgerator…can’t wait!  Now, I know I’m going to catch hell from Sam because I talked about my BEER before our ANNIVERSARY, but in my defense we didn’t take any photos of the anniversary, and I DID have a photo dad took of me brewing.

As you may have rightly guessed, Samantha and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary at the Melting Pot in Myrtle Beach last night.  It was a very delicious meal, we did the Mojo fondue with the Pacific Rim selection.  There was duck, pork, sirloin, and chicken, with four potstickers.  Appetizer was the Cheddar fondue and dessert was ‘The Original’ as they call it, which is basically peanut butter and milk chocolate swirled.  In all, I like to be reminded why this is one of our favorite restaurants…but only once a year!  The ole’ wallet bursts a blood vessel just thinking about it.

It was nice yesterday to think back to what we were doing at any particular time the previous year.  Driving to the beach for dinner was timed perfectly as when 5:00 rolled around we looked at each other and grinned…that’s when the ceremony started.  It wasn’t the most pleasant for me, I had to endure 15 minutes of July heat in a black suit outside before I even got to SEE Samantha, but then she made it all worth it.  Recalling the recep…well, it was more of a party than anything was fun too.  We had to guesstimate at the times, because everything flew by so fast, but it’s not a day I think I could ever forget.  It was a ton of fun (I hope for all involved) and sometimes I wish I could rewind and experience it again.

No cruise this Summer sadly enough, which would be nice because right now I’d be sitting on a big boat…but we do have one planned with the family in December.  It is the last cruise of our honeymoon ports of call, so we didn’t see how we could posibly miss our last chance to relive it.

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