Our 10 year anniversary!

Nick's parents watched the kids for us for an overnight so we could celebrate our ten year anniversary.  We headed to Bethlehem, PA on Saturday around lunchtime and we checked in to our hotel.  We stayed in the Hotel Bethlehem which is a historic hotel.  It was beautiful and very cozy.  There is something spectacular about staying in a hotel...any hotel...without the kids.  It is ridiculously relaxing to me.

We headed out for lunch and ate at a little tapas place that was new.  We were fortunate to be there for the final day of Restaurant week, so most restaurants had a three course menu special.  It was a great little lunch and it was a beautiful day and we got to eat outside under the trees. 

Right next to our restaurant was this little store called Seasons.  It is an olive oil & vinegar taproom.  

It was a dream store for Nick and I.  We spent an hour or so here just sampling the oils and vinegar.  We left with quite a few...an anniversary present to ourselves.

The town was really beautiful.  I didn't know what to expect, but it was lovely.  In the background here are the steel stacks.  They are left over from the Bethlehem Steel mill that was here for years.  It opened in 1857 and closed in 2003.  It was once the second largest steel producer in the U.S.  The 5 blast furnaces were left standing after it closed and the city has turned it in to an arts and entertainment district called SteelStacks.  The night we were there was the first concert at the newly opened Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks.

Here is Nick outside the oldest continuously running bookshop in the world, the Moravian Book Shop.  It was opened in 1745.

After walking around for a while checking out the city we stopped at a microbrewery and had some beer and pretzels with a beer cheese soup dip...delicious!

We had dinner at our hotel at this beautiful restaurant.  It had huge windows with great views of the town.

In the evening we headed out to a movie at the SteelStacks.  They had an outdoor concert going on and the stacks were lit up red, white & blue for the 4th of July.

I thought this was a cool picture.  It was the wall paper on the wall inside the Arts center.  It was just cool to me to think of what the Steel company was to this town.  It was such a part of this community...they even had a band.

After our movie we returned back to our hotel room and had Champagne and strawberries waiting for us.

The next morning we had breakfast at our hotel restaurant and then headed over to the Steelstacks again in the day time.   What a cool little area they are making there.

The Levitt Pavilion

This is the ArtQuest center where we saw the movie.  There were vendors out music playing there.  We bought some yummy salsa before heading home. :)  That's right...all we bought was food items. We have the love of food in common.

It was a great little getaway.  I can't wait to do it again!  I also can't wait to see what the next 10 years bring.