Hello, Double Chinners! Sorry things were quiet around here for a few days. My hubby and I were in Big Bear Lake celebrating our one year anniversary of our wedding!
Score! We're Married!
While I’m not proud of it, I didn’t track a single thing through out the weekend. This was not wise, as it lead to copious indulging in things like creme brulee and NY strips… BUT… it was my first wedding anniversary, I splurged, and I had a great time! (Happy to report: back on the WW tracking train today!) It’s not really related to weight loss, but pix are fun – so let’s take a little pictorial recap of Big Bear, shall we?
Here we are at Juniper Point:
Exploring Big Bear Lake
And here’s Matt in our creepy haunted B&B (I’ll save that for another post… but let’s just say – 5 year old little girl ghosts? SCARY)
Matt looks for Casper
Here’s an amazing hand-made marshmallow from a great cafe called the Copper-Q where we had hand squeezed lemonades and iced coffees after sunny afternoons outside:
Stay-Puft, you got nothin' on this!
Here I am eating an awesome turkey sandwich on squaw bread from the “Big Bear Belly Deli”. It was a really tasty sandwich but almost had too much cheese. Or maybe I’m just not a fan of cheddar with turkey. *shrug*
I <3 sprouts
Here I am at a really haunted restaurant we ate at called The Log Cabin. (Over 100 years old – the waitress said apparitions of women in blue aprons (which was part of the original uniform) walk back and forth throughout the kitchen) I had some AMAZING biscuits and gravy with fried eggs. I should have had a heart attack on the spot from all the fat and salt, but they were incredible and brought back major memories of my grandma’s southern soul food cooking.
Is there a ghost behind me?!
Here we are at the Moonridge Zoo, which was full of rehabilitated animals. Their three grizzlies were there after raiding a campground three times too many. Can you see the big bear in back of our heads? It was fun hearing these guys snort and huff and puff as they lumbered around their enclosure. We also got to make the coyotes howl. That was cool.
Da Bears
Then, we had a fancy dinner at a place called the Peppercorn Grill. I had a NY Strip and Matt had the porterhouse. It was good – but couldn’t top their Artichokes Romano appetizer. It was baked artichoke hearts covered in balsamic vinegar, garlic, and parmesan bread crumbs. The creme brulee we shared for dessert was perfect – a nice crispy shell and cool, sweet custard underneath. So good. So, so good. So worth the few pounds I probably puffed up.
Before we pigged out at the Peppercorn
We drove home yesterday morning and had to pull over to capture some of the sheer scenic gorgeousness. Big Bear is absolutely stunning and a super friendly little town – and it only took two hours to get there from Los Angeles. We’ll definitely be going back!
I can’t believe you celebrated a year already! That is crazy!!
And I can’t wait to hear more about this spooky hotel you stayed in- say what??
Happy Anniversary! Here is to many more!
YAY!! Happy Anniversary!!! This is a great post!! I love it!
And guess what??? If you scrapbooked you would have a blast doing these pictures
Yes I am encouraging you to scrapbook cause it’s so much fun 
When the animals get rehabilitated, will they be returned to their native habitats?
Glad you had a good time. Why didn’t you tell the little girl to quit playing with your makeup and go to bed. Oh wait, it didn’t work with you so it probably wouldn’t on a ghost either.
Unfortunately, the animals are usually too…. pegleg like to go back to normal. Like one bear was missing a leg, so it wouldn’t survive in nature. Kinda sad, but cool that they have a new home where they’ll be taken care of.
Alyssa, I love you and miss you guys tons!