Anniversary Gifts with a Focus on Adventure

The stress of everyday living can sometimes take its toll in a relationship. Both you and your partner are busy with your respective works. Both of you are working hard to be able to pay the bills, send the kids to school and provide for your family’s daily needs.

Because couples have to keep these responsibilities in mind, they usually forget to unwind and do the activities that they love to do.

Well, this is about to change. Give yourself and your partner, or couples that truly deserve to unwind and at the same time enjoy their favorite adventure, an experience gift for their anniversary.

An adventure experience, when given as an anniversary gift, will not just give the couple a much-needed breather, but will also give them the adventure of a lifetime. This experience gift will also create for them lasting memories.

Consider these 5 anniversary gifts for the couple that loves adventure:

Tree trek adventures are perfect anniversary gifts for couples that love to explore the forests. This adventure experience gift will let you discover the secrets of the ancient rainforest through suspension bridges and observation platforms. This experience adventure will surely be a perfect getaway for couples that love the environment.

Couples that love water adventures will surely enjoy a stand up paddle surfing experience for two as anniversary gifts. This adventure is the new twist in surfing, where the surfer stands on a longboard and propels himself with an elongated canoe paddle. This one of a kind experience gift is a great way to improve one’s strength and balance and is an ideal cross-training activity.

Mix romance and adventure together with a kayak full moon tour for two as anniversary gifts for the couple that loves adventure. This experience gift will take the adventurous couple to Vancouver’s English Bay as they paddle on its still waters under the moon and the stars.

Couples that love air adventure will sure have the time of their lives with a paragliding first flight adventure for two. This experience gift will teach the couple how to inflate a paraglider and then guide it overhead to a height of 10 to 20 feet above the ground.

Winter is a great time to go on adventures in winter wonderland. Couples that love adventure on ice will enjoy the Paradise Basin Snowmobile experience for two. This experience gift will take the adventurous couple to experience the Rockies on board a snowmobile.

5th Wedding Anniversary Gifts

Wedding anniversaries are widely celebrated all over the world. But did you know that it was during the Medieval Era that wedding anniversaries were first celebrated. However, during that time, only the 25^th and 50^th anniversaries were celebrated. The men’s anniversary gifts to their wives at that time were a silver wreath for 25 years or a gold one for 50 years.

Today, there are meanings for each wedding anniversary that a couple celebrates. These meanings represent a stage in the couple’s relationship and they years that they have spent together. Gift givers, when planning on what anniversary gifts to give, usually take their cue from these meanings.

Fifth wedding anniversaries, they say, are all about wood. This does not mean, however, that the choices for anniversary gifts for a couple celebrating five years of being together are limited to wooden items.

You can be creative when it comes to giving 5^th wedding anniversary gifts by choosing experience gifts. Instead of giving a tangible wooden gift, why not give an experience associated with wood? Anniversary gifts like these will be more unique and will create lasting memories.

Here are a few suggestions for 5^th wedding anniversary gifts:

1. Think wood, think tree trek adventure for two! This experience anniversary gifts will take the couple to the ancient rainforest where they can get a bird’s eye view of cedars, hemlocks and firs from a series of suspension bridges and observation platforms.
   
   
2. What animals are you most likely to encounter when in the woods? Bears of course! Give a bear awareness hike for two as 5^th wedding anniversary gifts. This adventure will take the couple to a hike through the beautiful old growth forest around Whistler Mountain where they get to see Black bears in their natural habitat.
   
   
3. Dog sledding along snow-capped mountains and trees covered in snow make great 5^th wedding anniversary gifts. This winter adventure into the woods is a thrilling introduction to dog sledding where the couple will learn more about the basics of the sport.
   
   
4. Wolves too are a great part of the woods setting. A walk with a wolf for an hour make perfect anniversary gifts for a couple celebrating their 5^th wedding anniversary. The couple will get to experience a wolf in his native habitat and will also get to learn about and interact with a Shaman.

Top 5 Experiences for Anniversary Gifts

What can you do to make an anniversary more special? This is usually the question that is raised whenever an anniversary is coming. All of us want to make occasions like anniversaries special and memorable, not only because we want to impress, but also because we want to make the celebration meaningful.

Well, the answer to that familiar question of how to make an anniversary more special is to think out of the box. Sometimes, the gifts you give are the ones that make an occasion, like an anniversary, seem ordinary. What occasion wouldn’t seem ordinary when you give usual gifts like flowers, chocolates and jewelry every year?

Make your anniversary special by giving out of the box anniversary gifts like experience gifts. These gifts are surely not your ordinary gifts and these are guaranteed to make lasting memories that will make your celebration extra special.

Here are top five experiences that you can give us anniversary gifts:

1. Surprise and impress that special person in your life by giving a winter two-night gourmet getaway for two as anniversary gifts. This experience gift will take you to scenic Coopers Cove where you and your partner can spend hours exploring colorful flower and herb gardens or engage in activities like a game of golf or beach combing. And of course, since this is a gourmet experience, you will get to enjoy the culinary wonders of Chef Angelo and his team for the duration of your stay.
   
   
2. Couples who love having massages together will surely enjoy a Niagara Summer Rejuvenation two-night getaway for two as anniversary gifts. This romantic experience gift will take you to Kilpatrick Manor, an elegant and stately 1891 Victorian home, which was originally built for the Commissioner of the Niagara Parks.
   
   
3. Love is truly in the air when you spend your anniversary from the breathtaking height of 2,000 feet with a Toronto helicopter and evening dinner 360 experience for two as anniversary gifts. This experience gift will take you to a helicopter tour over Toronto and then to dinner at the top of the CN Tower.
   
   
4. Make your anniversary more special by giving a snow adventure as anniversary gifts. Learn how to mush your own dog sled team with the Whistler dog sled experience for two. This experience gift is an introduction to dog sledding right in the middle of Whistler wonderland.
   
   
5. Spend some alone time cruising on the ultimate dream bike, a Harley Davidson, to celebrate your anniversary. Choose your own itinerary or follow the suggested routes for your overnight cruise and make beautiful memories together, along with the Harley, that is.

While I've covered off a few ideas here and have tried to offer you a quite good selection of ideas to get you started, here's a link to another blog that covers off the same sort of things and is a good place to visit to get even more ideas to get your creative juices flowing for anniversary gifts.