I feel like I should break this recap into two parts:
- The part where I felt like crap.
- The part where I felt pretty darn good.
The problem with breaking the recap into two parts is that the part where I felt great was sort of sandwiched in between the two parts where I felt like crap, so it'd be a little hard to keep anything sort of together there :)
But I digress...
Mark and I were so blessed to be able to slip away for a weekend together to celebrate our 9th anniversary together, and we did really have a nice weekend getaway :)
We had a much-too-busy afternoon Friday trying to get out of town (packing, dropping the boys off in Worthington, visitation for a church friend who recently passed away, and packing), and I wasn't feeling the greatest on the way up, but thankfully a good night's sleep remedied that, and I felt good the next day.
We didn't really make any big plans for Saturday in advance, just wanting to play it by ear and see how we felt. We enjoyed breakfast at Northwoods Cafe, a little locals cafe.
After breakfast, we made our way down to Menards to verify that the wood floors we had previously picked out were, indeed, what we wanted to go with (and they WERE!) and picked up a few other odds and ends.
We had scheduled a tee-time for 10:16am at Geneva Golf Course, so we made our way over there and had a wonderful couple hours golfing together.
It was my first time golfing...ever...and while our scores weren't all that great, we had a pretty awesome time together :)
Afterwards, we made our way back over by the shopping center for lunch at Doolittle's, which was EXCELLENT!
I enjoyed the roasted pear and chicken salad and Mark went with the Applewood bacon and smoked cheddar burger.
After lunch, we made a couple returns and shopped for a bit before heading back to the hotel to rest for a bit. After our naps, we went to explore the beautiful grounds around our resort, which was on the NW shore of Lake Darling. It was BEAUTIFUL!
We found this zip line and had to give it a try :)
After exploring a bit, we made our way back to our room and got showered up and ready for supper. We decided at the last minute to try Tennessee Roadhouse, and it ended up being a pretty good decision. It had a pretty honky tonk atmosphere, and I think staring at the delicious looking margaritas about did me in, but we enjoyed our food, and I'm still drooling over the mustard sauce!
Mark went with the pulled pork sandwich and I had the Cuban, and both were excellent. We'd certainly go back for that awesome mustard sauce, but be prepared as it's a little spendier than we were thinking it might be considering the atmosphere. We went with more inexpensive items on the menu, and our total was still almost $40. Had we done a steak or shrimp or something, it would've been closer to $60. (And that's without drinks.)
We were both stuffed to the brim by the time we left the restaurant, but decided we didn't want to turn in right away for the night, so we took advantage of the complementary putt-putt course they had on the grounds and did all 18 holes (although the back half was pretty much entirely in the dark). We had a lot of fun with it, and it made me think that the next date night we have in Sioux Falls (you know, all of about once a year), we should do Thunder Road :)
The next morning I woke up feeling pretty rough again. We had a BEAUTIFUL breakfast buffet at the Lake Cafe right on the premises (they seriously know how to do a brunch buffet!), but I wasn't feeling super awesome about halfway through, so I didn't really get to enjoy it as much as I probably would have normally. I also didn't bring my phone, so you'll have to use your imagination, but I would HIGHLY recommend the buffet! The only complaint I had at all was that, since I wasn't feeling my best, it would have been nice to have simple stuff like toast or english muffins to sort of pad the rest of it.
We barely made it back to our room again before I got relatively sick again, so while we had all these great aspirations to do things like do the putt-putt course again in the light...or go to the pool...or just for a walk...we pretty much sat in our room watching some really weird movie until it was time to check out. I was still feeling pretty uneasy at that point, but I made it to the car. After my morning experience, I was actually feeling a little hungry, but was uncertain if I should go all out and actually eat anything, so we just stopped by Caribou and I picked up a decaf vanilla latte, which seemed to settle my stomach enough, thankfully.
I was a little bummed that we didn't get to make it to some of the scenic lookouts or do any of the hikes, thanks to both being a little more winded than usual due to this baby and all the stomach issues, and the places being about 30 miles north of where we were staying, but we were rewarded with these incredible views along the way home, which was good enough for me!
We made it home a little earlier than we anticipated, which was nice, as we had a little time to get unpacked, start some laundry and make it to the gym before heading down to get the boys from Grandpa and Grandma's in Worthington. Reality had set back in before long for sure, but sometimes a little getaway is all it takes to learn to appreciate the normality of life.
It was unfortunate that I was feeling so crummy for so much of our trip, but I'm so grateful that we had such a wonderful time on Saturday. It was just the break we both needed to give us a chance to breathe a little and rest.
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