10 years ago today...

..... I married my childhood sweetheart and best friend. As with all marriages there are always ups and downs but we have ridden them all out to become stronger (especially in the last few months!) and the last 10 years has flown by! I am very lucky to have found and married my soul mate - I love you very much sweetheart.



We didn't want a normal day in the park today so we booked ourselves on a backstage safari tour at Animal Kingdom. It meant an early start but was well worth it.


Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures of behind the scenes so we don't spoil the magic for others but we did some really cool things.


The highlight has to be getting up close and personal with a young (2.5yr old) male white rhino called Tommy. He was gorgeous and we got to pat and smooth him. We also got quite close to a couple of elephants but not close enough to touch as there were procedures being carried out in the pens so we weren't allowed in.


Paul was our guide for the morning. He was a retired biology teacher and was the best guide we could have asked for. He was nice and friendly and really knew his stuff. Also everyone we met seemed to know him and all seemed pleased to see him.


The only thing about the tour was that it had to come to an end but we were given these thermal mugs to take with us as a memento of our mornings adventure.


Luckily the rain held off until about 15mins after the tour finished, when we were walking to the resort bus! We wanted to head back to the studio to drop off our mugs. It was another almighty storm and we had to go back out in it for our afternoon tea reservation at the Grand Floridian!

We had tea of our choice, sparkling wine, sandwiches (with a pate/terrine slice and mini onion tart), scone (with jam and cream), raspberry jam tart and Trifle. It was lovely and very un-english lol!!

Half way thorough I was given a gorgeous pink scented rose to take away with me as I was celebrating my anniversary, which is now in a glass on our table in the studio.

Due to the weather and having a rose, we headed back to the studio where I fell asleep after my early start. I woke in time to get dinner from the artist palette again. Tonight it was parmesan chicken and pasta which again was yummy.

I shall leave you now with a picture of the present I had from Russ for our anniversary (Thank you!!). It is a Thomas Sabo bracelet which had 3 charms on it. While at the Grand Floridian I spotted a Cinderella's carriage charm which was perfect on it and so I brought that (our first non food purchase of the trip!!!!). It looks gorgeous and I am very pleased to have a husband with such good taste:D