Kimball Farms and Wayside Inn

Sorry ladies, the worlds greatest husband is taken! Swo you'll have to settle for atleast the world's 2nd greatest husband. Yesterday was our 5th wedding anniversary and only a couple of times (I'm not exaggerating) he's been able to surprise me. Trust me, he tries hard too! Well, we take turns planning our anniversary and this year it was his. Apparently, he's had an idea of what we'd do for a good while and was so happy that I hadn't figured it out. Well, two days before the "big day" I figured it out. I was THRILLED!!! Even though it wasn't a total surprise, it was one of my favorite things I ever done with Dan. Sorry, I'm a little long-winded. Yesterday, Dan left work early, I picked up our babysitter and we were off and Dan even drove! We first went to Kimball Farms. It has YUMMY icecream, minature golf and bumper boats. Dan had a decent game of minature golf and me, well let's just say I understand what Happy Gilmore felt like before Chubbs taught him how to putt.


Then off to the Wayside Inn for not only dinner, but we stayed there too...WITHOUT kids (please don't take this the wrong way. I love my kids!). For those of you that don't know, the Wayside Inn is one of the coolest places in Massachusetts. First of all, it's the oldest still running Inn in the country. It first started in 1716 (for lot's of cool info. about the place go to wayside.org) meaning it's older than our country! Also, if you know the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, then you know his 1863 book called "Tales of the Wayside Inn", this is where he got the idea. He had stayed at the Inn and well, wrote the book. Anyway, it's not just an Inn, but a restaraunt that has INCREDIBLE food. Dan took me there for my birthday in July and I was so excited to go back. So, we had a spectacular evening of food and history. There is a calm and cozy feeling to the Inn as you walk around and absorb the history of it. There's only 10 rooms and 2 of which they say are haunted (Dan wants to stay in one of those sometime, but there's no way you'd get me in there). One of my favorite things about the room is that there are little notes hidden throughout from other passerby's. You end up spending half the night finding and reading the little notes. The grounds of the Inn are absolutely beautiful and it was so hard to leave this morning to come back to reality (althought I did miss my little girls). The pictures don't do it justice! Thank you, Dan for a most AWESOME wedding anniversary!

(Have you ever seen this place on a greeting or Christmas card???)