Saturday, February 20, 2010

Happy Valentines Day To Us!



A couple weeks ago my mother offered to come up to Fort Collins to watch the kids and give Brady and I a Valentines weekend. Opportunities like that don't come often so I decided to make the best of it and plan a surprise 24 hour date with Brady. I looked at different options around here for places to stay and if there were any special offers. I found a little treasure right here in For Collins. THE ARMSTRONG HOTEL. Any guest at the hotel also gets complimentary tickets to a local play, free admission to a local gym (Old Town Gym) and they can check out old time cruisers to ride around town. So that was most of our date all bundled up in a hotel room.

So Brady had no idea where we were going. He guessed maybe Estes Park or Denver. So to throw him off I blindfolded him and drove around town for about 1/2 hour. Then he was effectively mislead. Then I took him to the hotel, which is a really neat historical hotel located right in the middle of old town. I was able to decorate the room a little before he got off work so it was a sweet surprise.

Next we went out to dinner at a local sushi restaurant. Brady had never had real sushi and although he still ordered a "backup" dish just incase, he thought it was good. After dinner we walked to the nearby play house and watched a great play. We joked that it must have been senior citizen night, because we were by far the youngest people there. After the play we had the unpleasant discovery that our car had died because of my oversight of the headlights. This was another bonus to staying in town because my little sister was able to come give us a jump. Then it would have been back to the hotel, but I dropped Brady off and went home to nurse Kennedi a little so my mother could have a better start at her night. Another benefit to being close.


The next morning we took the cruisers out to breakfast at my beloved Ihop and toured downtown a bit.


Then we finished off with a good and rare gym work out. It was a great time and we owe it all to my mom. Thanks Mom. We love you!!!!!

3 comments:

empty nester said...

What a great get away. I'm glad you got some time together. I too thank your mom for the weekend. We all love you lots.

lynsey said...

how fun! that hotel looks like a great place to stay and what a GOOD idea to put all of those extra things in the package deal. you guys are an awesome couple, so glad you got to enjoy the time together!

The Church's said...

It looks like you guys had a great time. It is always so nice to get away everyonce in a while even when it is in town


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