This past weekend Jason and I enjoyed our last weekend getaway before we become a family of three. These days people call this a "babymoon" - and I highly recommend it. It was such a great time to get away from the daily grind and just reconnect and spend some good quality time just the two of us. It was so fun! Jason got off work early on Friday and brought home Chicken Express for lunch. We packed up our stuff and made our way down to the Embassy Suites in Dallas.
Excited about our weekend - in the car on the way.
My super cute hubby - ready to relax for the weekend!
We arrived right at check-in time - 3pm. Our room was great and we immediately opened a bottle of our Sparkling Apple Cider to kick-off our celebration weekend. We had talked about going to see a movie so we headed out to check out the area and find the movie theater. We found it and ............ it was a little sketchy. It was in the Valley View mall which has several department stores closed down and there was a creepy carnival set up in the parking lot. I was super freaked out so we decided to check out the Galleria. It was very large and ominous and we just didn't feel like fighting for parking and figuring it out. Jason was getting pretty tired at that point, so we decided to head back to the hotel for a little nap. Jason had hardly slept the night before because he stayed up late watching the Rangers game the night before and woke up for work at 4:30am that morning. Needless to say, he needed a little rest. I decided to take a nice warm relaxing bath while he napped and it was so nice. It was definitely the perfect start to our weekend.
Once Jason woke up we decided we didn't want to go anywhere and just wanted to order pizza. We turned on the Rangers game and enjoyed our pizza. There was a 3rd or 4th grade football team along with 3rd or 4th grade cheerleaders along with some parents. The key word in that sentence is some. Our room was just outside the elevator, and the kids were going hog-wild with running to their rooms (down the hall from ours), and then running (while screaming) to the elevators, down and then back up, RINSE AND REPEAT 738 times. Jason and I just had to laugh that on our babymoon which was supposed to be our last time alone before kids, there were tons of screaming wild children just outside our room, on the elevators, at breakfast, etc. Of course, our kids will be supervised, and will not be running or screaming in hotels ... so at least we'll have that going for us. ;)
I was so glad I planned ahead and brought plenty of strawberries and this easy melt chocolate for the microwave along with our bottles of Sparkling Apple Cider and Sparkling White Grape Juice. It was definitely a nice touch and much cheaper than ordering that stuff from room service. It made us feel fancy.
Of course, this is what we looked like while eating our chocolate covered strawberries and watching the game...not so fancy. However, we had an awesome time just being together watching the game (I actually really enjoy watching baseball on tv with J), even though they lost. It was a frustrating game to watch - especially with the Rangers pitchers walking so many Cardinals batters. Kind of ridiculous. Oh well, maybe next year.
After the game was over we decided to watch a movie on TNT, Ransom with Mel Gibson - which had commercials, and didn't cut anything out of the movie, so what should have just been a couple of hours turned into over 3 hours of movie watching. We had to see how it ended, though! It was really fun to just hang out and do whatever we felt like doing, with no set plan for the next day.
On Saturday, we woke up at 8:30 and decided it was a perfect day for the Dallas Zoo. We got ready and had a yummy eggs, bacon, sausage, and pancake breakfast at the hotel then headed to the zoo.
Here's a 31 weeks shot.
We got to the zoo at 10ish and got to see a lot of great animals. Here's a shot of me with my favorite animal - the elephant. there were two of them and they were awesome to watch.
The Dallas Zoo has an amazing elephant and giraffe exhibit. Here are some of the giraffes - we were standing on a platform that was face-height with them. SO COOL.
You could spend $5 and feed them lettuce. We didn't do it, but saw plenty of people who did.
SO CLOSE!! Ah, so cool.
I was just so excited to be touching a giraffe, and had been watching the zebras playing in the distance ... so cool.
More giraffes. They are so pretty!
Here's a little glimpse into the area where there were giraffes, antelopes, ostriches, and zebras. It was beautiful.
Finally, a picture of the two of us!
A better picture of the whole area.
Our yummy zoo lunch and rest break. I love corndogs!
Here's Jason just outside the holding area for his favorite animal - the tiger. There was one that was pacing back and forth probably for his lunch. It was so cool to watch him walk - they are so powerful and their paws are huge! It was also cool to see the other tiger behind this gate Jason is standing in front of - he was pacing, too.
We lasted about 3 hours at the zoo and then headed back to the hotel to watch some tv and relax before our nice dinner out. I ended up taking a short nap on Jason's chest while we were watching tv. We had a great afternoon of just chilling out and then started getting ready for our nice dinner out.
These are the swans they had at the hotel - they were sleeping standing up. It was kind of cool to see. Sometimes I wish I could sleep standing up...
Here I am all ready to go out on a nice date with my hubby. We went to Houston's for dinner and it was DELICIOUS!! The atmosphere was intimate and our service was great. We had spinach artichoke dip for our appetizer, both got salads, and Jason got a cheeseburger and I got a filet. It was probably one of the best steaks I've ever had. Then we had cheesecake for dessert - and it was so yummy. It was the perfect meal and choice for our weekend getaway.
When we got back to the hotel we got comfy and just had a great time hanging out together. A little later we had more chocolate covered strawberries and Sparkling Cider. It was the perfect end to our time away.
The next morning we got up and ate breakfast at the hotel and were out of there by about 10am. We stopped by our house to unpack and get settled, and then headed out to Frisco to look at rockers/gliders again. We had started thinking that the one we picked out a few months ago was a little too nice for this phase in our lives. So we looked at Buy Buy Baby and Haverty's ... and think we've picked one, but are just waiting to sleep on it some more to make sure it's a good decision. After looking at gliders, we stopped by Best Buy and Jason bought 2 new xbox games. I encouraged him to do it - he never spends money on himself. He got a baseball game and so when we got home he played that and I watched and had fun figuring out the game with him. We ended up watching a couple of the shows we had recorded - Terra Nova and Suburgatory. So far we're not too sure about Terra Nova, but find Suburgatory very funny. We've only seen the first Terra Nova, so we haven't totally given up on it.
All in all we had a fantastic weekend together and are even more in love, if that was even possible. It's been so cool to see our marriage get stronger and better throughout this pregnancy. It's been great. I have the best husband in the world and am so thankful that he'll be my baby's daddy!!
Sounds like such a great weekend!
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