Ok so maybe not a hurricane hurricane but it seriously felt like it!
This weekend was my husband and I’s seven year anniversary. To celebrate it he planned a whole weekend in Gettysburg, PA to include spending the day at the Wine and Music Festival. My parents agreed to watch the kids overnight so early Saturday morning we made are way up to their house (an hour away), dropped them off, and headed up to PA. We found our hotel (within walking distance to the festival!), checked in, walked over to the festival, paid our $50 (I know right!) and then went to our first wine tent. Let’s back up… Mr. Gil and I are not wine drinkers. He doesn’t like wine… like at all and I like the wine that tastes like candy. Ok so now that we’ve established that lets move on. The first wine tent was good we pretty much stuck with the sweet wines (see previous comment about candy). Mr. Gil and I both liked the peach wine and the pineapple wine. Fast forward maybe 20 mins and three wine tents, and a spiral cut deep fried potato chip concoction later… dark black evil looking clouds start to roll in. The lead singer of the don’t-remember-type –of-music-band made an announcement about impending weather and to take shelter in the nearby theater. Mr. Gil and I of course kept eating our amazing potato thing and ignored the warning. We finish up, step outside the tent… I notice it’s sprinkling… open the umbrella and then hurricane. Ok so seriously though… I’m talking torrential down pour with what felt like small pieces of hail and 60 mph winds…. In a field with an umbrella. Were we soaked? Yep! Were we laughing at how RIDICULOUS this all is? Yep! Was I admittedly scared out of my mind at one point that I was going to get blown away like the house in the Wizard of Oz? OH YES! Especially when one of the exhibitor's tents went tumbling down the hill and landed in a destroyed mess.
SO after that whole thing came and went… we sloshed our way back to the hotel to get out of our sopping wet clothes and dried off.
The festival ended up getting shut down by the fire department due to all the destruction. SO we went to dinner, walked around the historic area, saw a movie, and generally enjoyed our day together.
All in all it was a really great weekend. I appreciate his gesture in planning this day for me more than he will ever know. After seven years of marriage and 12 years of being in love I can honestly say that I love that man more today than I ever have. I am truly blessed to have him in my life. We’re not perfect but we are certainly perfect for each other.
I hope you all managed to have an equally awesome and hopefully NOT as equally wet weekend!
XO
Mrs. Gil
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