Anniversary Day Trip: Palo Alto

We had a late contender in our options for our anniversary day trip, Palo Alto! Home of Stanford university.

The highlights:
-Eating brunch in a little cafe downtown.
-People watching and spotting a Kate Middleton look alike. Alden even said she looked like a princess... thanks babe, happy anniversary to you too! ;)
-Shopping and blowing our entire anniversary budget at Gap. what the?!
-Trying Sprinkles cupcakes for the first time. Not sure they lived up to all the hype but I think Alden is more of a cupcake critic than I am!
-Walking around Stanford University and dreaming about college life. Their campus is gorgeous you guys!
-Being REALLY hot and wishing for one little moment that we would have gone to the beach instead.
-Eating fish and chips on the sidewalk at a French cafe for dinner. YUM!

Overall the day was a success and sometimes flying by the seat of your pants is the best way to live life. Thank you for such a fun day Alden!

wear//there//weekend

This weekend we are celebrating our second anniversary by heading out on a weekend getaway day trip. When it comes to making decisions Alden and I are the worst, quickly followed by keeping secrets/surprises from each other. To solve this problem, we are going to throw all our options into a hat and pull one out on Saturday morning and head off for the day! (If you can't wait till Monday to see where we are headed off to for the weekend then be sure and follow my instagram! @ashleyaikele)

On the flip side we think we have decided where we are going for our big trip at the end of the year! Yay us! Hopefully we will be buying our tickets tonight (hence our last minute plan to change this weekend from a getaway to a day trip, gotta save those pennies!). Can't wait to tell you where we are going.

Weekend Getaway pics

We had a fabulous time on our weekend getaway to the city. We stayed in the heart of Union Square at Hotel Union Square, hailed a cab to a delicious French dinner with live jazz at Cafe Claude and shopped around Union Square for the evening.

My absolute FAVORITE part of our getaway was on Saturday when we walked down to the Ferry Building Marketplace and enjoyed delicious food, live music on the pier, and people watching. Thank you Oh Happy Day for this awesome recommendation. I cannot wait to go back!

And thank you to my sweet husband, Alden. I can't think of anyone I would rather spend the weekend with.