T is for time to Celebrate

 Hello Ladies, last Saturday we celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary, it wasn’t the day we had planned where all our family flew over to celebrate with us, due to restrictions on travel it meant that our youngest son and family couldn’t come over from San Francisco nor our eldest son and his family from England. We  did go out for a lunch and our youngest son organised a Zoom call for everyone, that was really lovely. Our son took a screen shot of us all so at least we have a reminder!

The glasses and champers we've  had ten years, since our 40th Anniversary, they were a gift, we didn’t drink the champagne as we were actually on a cruise on the day, around the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal and up to San Francisco to visit the family before going home, a fabulous trip, so we decided that we would save it until the family came over all together, for some reason that year they came at different times and then on a trip to San Francisco in the October my husband had a massive heart attack and ended up spending our holiday in hospital after having a triple bypass, not the holiday we expected, anyway we still never opened the bottle as my husband doesn't drink alcohol so the bottle still sits there. since then we’ve had additions to the family and with  GSs starting school  everyone always has different holidays.

 it’s been eight years since we all managed to be in Spain at the same time. We all have plans now to celebrate next May 29th, fingers crossed.

The flowers were sent from our eldest son, our 5 year old GS actually picked it as he said Nan had to have purple flowers as it's my favourite colour!

This is our wedding photo with the Lance Guard, it should have been a sword guard but my husband wasn't with his regiment at the time, he was on a recruiting team attached to the 307 South Notts Hussars.

The Hussars were in time of war were a mounted regiment so their weapon was a lance, easier to use on horseback!

we had our honeymoon in St Ives in Cornwall, in 1971 not many people went abroad for holidays and my husband only had a weeks leave.

This is one of my favourite photos, our Wedding Album was all black and white, we paid extra to have a small album done in colour, well it was 1971!!

I actually bought a rolling pin on our Honeymoon, I think the first thing I purchased as a married woman, I still have it and use it all the time, it is well traveled.

We did decided to go out for lunch, we just went a stroll around the Marina and then to one of our favourite restaurant, Viggios.

we did look at the menu but we've had most of the dishes on it over the years so  we decided to have the Menu Del Dia as you can see they had a big selection.

We chose a salad for our starter, it was delicious with ham and pineapple

and a slice of Garlic bread.

As you can see, my drink for this week, a glass of wine to celebrate.

First course we both chose Gazpacho, it was homemade and I think the best we’ve ever tasted.

Our main course we had the hake with Seafood and Leek sauce and roasted potatoes, I had already tried it before I remembered to take a photo, the photo doesn’t do it justice, I think the sauce over the fish makes it look a strange colour, it was delicious but after that we decided to skip pudding and just have coffee.

I love the coffee cups here, I couldn’t get a good photo, they are hand painted  and the saucer has writing on it, by then the restaurant was full so I felt a big self conscious taking a picture of a coffee.

I hope you are all still awake after all that!!  I was due to have my second vaccine tomorrow but had a text message on Sunday to say it is delayed until next Monday, no idea why, of course the council have only just released it online so hopefully everyone knows and doesn't have a wasted journey tomorrow!

Have a lovely T Day Ladies, take care

Jan x