Happy 1st Anniversary!!!

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Carlos and I celebrated our 1st anniversary.

It went by soooo fast!


March 29th was our religious wedding ceremony. Here in Chile you have to be married by the state (not the church) for it to be legal. So what a lot of religous people do is have 2 ceremonies. 1 for the church and 1 for the civil registry which can be before or after the religious one. That means you have 2 anniversaries! (lucky for the women!!!) What we did was have our religous wedding first on March 29th, then used a new law in Chile where you can register your religious ceremony with the state, without an official ceremony. You have 7 days from the religous ceremony to do so or it is invalid and you have to start the process over. We celebrate our religous one since we are Christians and that is more important to us.

Sunday, March 29th was our anniversary and it was a busy day (but not because of our anniversary). We were at a church retreat with Carlos' family all weekend and then the national soccer team played that night so we didn't have the chance to celebrate. I was kind of bummed but Carlos more than made up for it. He started (which I hope to be a yearly tradition!!!) what he called our, "Anniversary Week" where we did something special every day of the week.

Day 1: Carlos was waiting for me at home with flowers and mint chocolates (that have a special story behind them).
Day 2: dinner at a romantic restaurant
Day 3: More flowers and Carlos took me to buy a ring and then out to lunch in Valparaiso
Day 4: the Present Search began. 1 present per day, hidden somewhere in the house for me to find.
Day 5: More presents!!!
Day 6: More presents!!!

He has definately set the bar high. I loved our week together. He did very very good. I love you Carlos!!!! This whole latin lover things isn't so bad. 😊

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Photos

Carlos made a sign for me
The sign said, "Happy 1st Anniversary. I adore you!" Que lindo.

Day 2: Romantic dinner
We had the whole restaurant to ourselves.

Day 3: my ring
Carlos bought me a lapizlazuli. That is a stone that exists mainly in Chile and Afganistan. It is a dark blue stone and I love it!!

Day 3: lunch date
The lovely restaurant overlooking the port in Valpo.

The restaurant
It was a mix of artsy things, paintings, nic-nacs but it had its charm. And cheap food!

My incredible husband with port in the background
We had wonderful weather!!!

Days 4, 5, and 6: my secret presents
I have a minor obsession with pepper here in Chile & have wanted a pepper grinder for a while. The flower thing is a candle, and the red mug Carlos bought because I never finish my tea because I end up getting distracted with something & it gets cold. This way it won't get cold.

Today, Thursday , secret present and shawerma
Shawerma is a arabic food, a big pita sandwhich with slow roasted meat, roasted tomates and lettuce with an awesome garlic sauce. It is a restaurant we frequently owned by a Syrian family.

I love you a lot more than 180 lucas"
Even though I got angry, sorry!. May God bless you.
Explaination: this day I got my ATM card stolen and about 180 luca (180,000 chilean pesos which is about 380 dollars) were stolen from our bank account. Rough day!

Comments

[Scott Clan]

Congrats!
So happy for you two...wish you were closer so we can help celebrate the big 1! Love to you...The Scott Clan 7

[Tom]

Congrats Tori!
Tori! Sounds like your anniversary week was beyond compare. Glad to hear that the two of you are still falling deeper in love.