Our First Anniversary: Cops, Crabs, and Cake

“Hi, I’d like to report an unspent 9mm bullet in my parking lot,” said the Wife.

And so began our first anniversary celebration night.

Happy Anniversary!

Despite an abundance of choices for a romantic celebratory dinner, the Wife wanted good’ol Maryland crabs. I suggested the site of our engagement or some of our old favorites throughout MoCo and DC, but she wanted crabs. Ever the gentleman, I obliged for our first crab feast of the season.

It's time to admit it..just eating crabs for a meal is a waste so just order 3 for the "experience" and then get some real food off the menu.

We went to the Bethesda Crab House after our first choice, Steam N' Blues, apparently closed in the 5 years since we went there for dinner with my dedicated midwest reader and her husband. We did two all-you-can-eats and it was fine for $35/each, but nothing special considering they were the small crabs you’d expect with the our choice. The Dancing Crab a few miles south is a much better choice because its menu actually has other things to eat that will fill you up, but we were starving.

I nabbed flowers and vase thanks to a quick trip to Giant before dinner.

Not really stuffed from corn on the cob and a silo of sodium, I drove us home while the Wife called the cops. One of the younger, rookie-looking cops swung by and gave a good'ol police knock on our door. The Wife handed him the bullet, letting him know it's not hers nor does she know whose it could be. He simply said the police were just going to melt it down. I was hoping he'd say they'd do CSI forensics on it and match it up to a cold case. It'd be a sexier story at least.

The cake looked great until the Wife bit into it!

After our run-in with the law it was time to chowdown on our first anniversary cake thanks to Sugarbakers. By buying our wedding cake there we got a replica of our cake top a year later. It sure was good! The cake lasted us these last few nights before we had had our fill of buttercream and rasberry amarreto.

The first anniversary gift is paper so I renewed the Wife's Us Weekly subscription. How kind of me.

Oh yeah, I can't believe how fast time flew since the wedding...we're off to a great start...here's to many more anniversaries...and other cliches I'm supposed to say.