OUR 5TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

We still can't believe that we have been married for five years. Time really has flown by. So much has happened during that time that it makes your head spin just thinking about it. We decided to spend our day out exploring with Macintosh as thats what we love to do best. 

The town of Kernville, on the Kern river, was our destination and it was amazing. We spent barely any time hiking but rather just spent the whole time at the river playing about with Macintosh. See yesterday's post about it here. 

It was sort of amazing in itself to see so much water in a river. California is in a major drought and lots of the water sources are lower than they should be. This river is still lower than it should be but it was enough for us to cope. 

We went to the Kern River Brewing Company for lunch. It was amazing. Americans do burgers and chips better than anyone else. We loved these waffle chips too. Cue the bad picture of Andrew eating....

Amazingly we didn't take many other pictures of the day, except a few of Macintosh swimming. We were too busy enjoying ourselves on the river, and taking a camera onto it without waterproofing would have been disastrous. We did manage a group selfie shot and I took a sweet one of Andrew and Macintosh. 

I love the hair parting Andrew has going on! 

For the evening celebration we decided to head to a restaurant we'd never been too called Fresco II. The food was soooooooo good! We ate so much I actually felt sick the next day! Andrew obviously had the most meaty meal he could find and I had an amazing chicken feta dish. The restaurant is a Mediterranean based place so we felt rather at home as it was much more European that some of the other restaurants near us. They had a guy playing guitar there too which added some nice atmosphere. It was a great way to end our celebration.

And the only thing to do now is to show you our most ridiculous joint gift...

Yes that is a giant 7 foot replica Sopwith Camel propeller. It is made out of wood after all!
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BUFFALO WILD WINGS

Last night Andrew and I had Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. Andrew wanted me to experience the 'wings experience'. Due to the fact we still don't have a house to live in and are still living in a hotel we are obliged to eat out every night. It's hard to stay healthy in America when you can't cook for yourself but most nights we have been fairly good. However with wings we knew we weren't being good! 

Buffalo Wild Wings is the sports fan's favourite place. The entire place is covered in TVs which show a variety of different sports all at once. These pictures show you the TVs we could see easily form our booth. 

For people who are non-sports fans or for Andrew who gets lost in a TV when it's on it was rather distracting. Putting that aside the menu had a pretty extensive range of flavourings for your wings and even included boneless wings which made me happy. (I don't particularly enjoy eating meat off the bone) They even had different types of food such as burgers or sandwiches. None were any healthier than the wings though. 

                            

After much deliberation Andrew and I ordered two sodas (cokes in UK English) and then he had traditional wings with an assortment of hotter flavourings and I had boneless wings with the obviously milder/non-spicy flavours. Here is our food, doesn't it look healthy!

                             

Please note the healthy carrot and celery sticks accompanying mine. I may have enjoyed these the most out of the whole meal! 

At this point I must confess that I never finished all my wings as I was way too full. The idea of leaving food still grates on me as it goes against everything I was taught growing up. Still at least I remember not to have pudding if I can't finish! Andrew on the other hand finished his wings. He only had 15 this time. This was apparently a mere snack as his current wings challenge total is 37!! The boy is a lunatic! 

                           

The whole experience was certainly interesting and I can see why Andrew spent so much time there with the boys whilst in Florida. Not sure it'll become one of our frequent haunts though. We may take our guests there though to see if anyone is able to defeat Andrew. Anyone reckon they can?

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