A Weekend Getaway

Let me begin by saying how HIGHLY irritated I am. Should I blame my sister Robin? No. Should I have used my phone to listen to the radio in the shower? No. But if ROBIN wasn't on the radio then I wouldn't have felt the need to listen. So I am blaming Robin. Sorry. My darn phone fell off the waterproof ledge and into the water draining at my feet. After leaving it in a bowl of rice, the ninja gods fixed the darn thing, all the while Verizon quickly sent me a replacement. Thankfully I didn't activate the replacement, because after a bathroom break on our way home from a vacation this weekend, my phone fell out of my pocket and shattered the screen. Go figure. With all the phone juggling I had been doing the last couple days, I inadvertently left the case for it at home. So instead of getting a free phone out of the deal, I'm paying $100 for my insurance to get me a new one. Yes, this was ALL my fault but if Robin wasn't on the radio....Gah.

Anyways. Perry and I had a little weekend getaway. We hardly get to spend anytime together alone so for my birthday, Perry gave me, rather us, a weekend getaway to Northern Quest Casino in Spokane. I was pretty excited, but was super excited to hear that we were also going to go to Chicago. A Broadway play for my birthday?! No way! That's when it started going down. Turns out he didn't actually book us room there. And we weren't going to the Broadway play "Chicago" it was going to be the band Chicago. Deal breaker. But his intentions were good! By the time we decided we would still stay at Northern Quest and just not go to the concert, they were booked. And so was downtown Spokane....

That took us to what we felt was our only other option, the Coeur d'Alene Resort. After a lot more discussion of what we would do in Coeur d'Alene since nothing was going on this weekend, we booked a room anyways and opted to go to the spa. A solid decision.

Grandma picked up all 3 kiddos and took care of them over the weekend while we headed out Friday morning for a little bit of relaxation. Whenever we go anywhere, we pop in our mixed cd's from way back when and see what songs we remember and if we can name the artist. And then this song came on... I couldn't help but to secretly film him. I'm horrible. I know. He's going to kill me if he sees this...

Who knew he could sing, dance, and drive at the same time?

The first thing we did when we arrived at the resort was to head to the spa for a couples massage. Amazing, but not long enough. It was so nice to relax and be pampered a little bit. For dinner, we headed over to Red Lobster to cure our seafood cravings. Plus who can say no to Lobsterfest? The rest of the night was a little foggy. We went back to our room, played a little Pass the Pigs, all the while having a couple mixed drinks before going across the street to Splash to get our groove on. I love dancing. I'm not any good at dancing, but I love dancing. I'll tell you what though, by the end of the night, I was the BEST dancer in da club. Flat out best. While Perry was out on one of his breaks, I befriended a table of Saudi Arabians guys, so I always had someone to dance with. My feet are still a little sore from all the dancing. Worth it.

I'm impressed that I remember to hang our room service menu on our door when we made it back to the resort. Still annoyed I didn't change the delivery time to earlier than 11, but still... Who would have thought that after a night of partying, I would be wide awake at 8 am feeling fine? For the next three hours I listened to my stomach grumble and Perry snore. Once we finally had breakfast, we wandered around town for a little bit before taking an afternoon nap. For dinner we ate at one of the resort restaurants called Bonsai, which had Asian cuisine. Delicious! We finished the night off with a few games of Backgammon before calling it a night. (Perry is getting too old to go out on consecutive nights! Hahaha) 

By this morning we were both ready to head home. We're parents. We missed our kids too much to stay any longer. But before heading home, we stopped by the mall to kill sometime. But it didn't open until 11am, so we had a bathroom break before hitting the road. A few things to note about the mall. 1) They had a hurricane simulator 2) They had a ProActive vending machine and 3) In the women's bathroom, not only could you buy tampons in the vending machine, but if you so desired, they also had candy for sale. They missed their target market by not putting chocolate in there instead...possibly a shot of wine too?