FeauxCajun.Com: Sixth Wedding Anniversary: Iron!

First, a quick shout out to my amazing and wonderful husband. This marks our 6th wedding anniversary! Time really flies. I am so eternally grateful to have been blessed with such a great life partner, to have shared these past 6 years (and beyond), and look forward to all of the future years to come.

As you may know from previous years, I like to do DIY anniversary gifts. However, I am not a blacksmith, so creating an iron gift was a bit out of my wheelhouse. Nor could I find any gifts made from iron that seemed either a) useful, or b) like something The Hubs would appreciate. So, I had to dig a little deeper.

Iron City beer sign: Pittsburgh Brewing is one of the U.S.'s older brewing companies, located in Pennsylvania for over 150 years. We've not been there, or tried any of their beers, but the name works, and it'll make a nice addition to the Craft Brew Room.

Iron Man shirt: The Hubs likes Marvel, so it works. Plus this shirt is super soft.

Iron-Themed beers: I hit up our local Brown Derby International Wine Center (aka "the big Brown Derby") and asked a customer service rep in the beer department to help me find Beers either with "iron" in the name of the brewer or the beer. The rep's eyes lit up--a challenge!!! We scoured the aisles and found these two perfect options:
- Left Hand's Cast Iron Oatmeal Brown
- Robinson Brewery's Trooper "Red & Black" Porter, created in collaboration with...IRON MAIDEN. It was a good pull on part of the rep. I would have totally missed this bottle if not for him.

Over the weekend, my in-laws volunteered to keep Lil' Man for us for a while so we could have a date night. So we checked out a new tap room, then had dinner at White River Fish House, sampled a few moonshines, perused some of the shops at Branson Landing, then had dessert--24 Karrot Cake from Dino's (very yummy).

After that, we played a twilight game of mini-golf (until twilight turned into "I can't see the course anymore"--so we got through 13 of the 18 holes), then picked up our kiddo and headed home. It was a great day.