Our Tenth Anniversary

For quite some time now, Rob and I have dreamed of getting away for a bit on our tenth anniversary, which we celebrated yesterday. We tossed around a variety of ideas, but all of them hinged on finding someone willing to keep the children for more than one night. We asked a wonderful family at our church and they were more than happy to keep the kids. There were four of them, three of our chillin's, so at least one of them could take a break at all times. :) We dropped off the babies on Thursday afternoon and took off for an early weekend adventure.

Our destination was the Olympia Resort in Oconomowoc. We had passed it numerous times on the way to my prenatal appointments at the hospital and it looked pretty good on the website as well. We had a king suite booked about a month ago, and THEN looked at reviews of the place. They ranged from "best place I've stayed" to "wouldn't send my enemy there." Most of the complainers whined about no bell hops and a fly in the pool, so we weren't too worried. We arrived to find that our suite had been double booked, but since they had practically no guests at the time, they just moved us down a floor. We hiked for quite a bit to find our room, but it was well worth the walk. We had a large bedroom with a king-sized bed and a living room/kitchenette in the next room. Two full baths, two mini-fridges, microwave, table, two TV's, two couches (catching the two theme?) and all of it VERY nice.

I had saved back some grocery money so we went to the grocery store to pick up some food for the first three meals and some snacks. It was so nice to eat with just the two of us in a quiet place. And it was extremely quiet! We heard people's voices twice the entire time we were there! A more than welcome change!

We also ate out for two meals. We went to Chili's for supper last night and the hotel's breakfast buffet this morning. Otherwise we just chilled in the room and watched some Food Network, played games, swam in the two hotel pools, and made fun of the people at the Cat Show going on in the conference center. We were kind of curious (heh-heh) about the "No cats beyond this point" signs all over the place until we discovered a cat show was in town. The hotel we stayed at for our first honeymoon had a police convention going on. Can't wait to see what we find at our 20th! Oh, and we got to see them set up for multiple weddings on Friday and Saturday. They had several lovely locations for weddings.

It was a wonderful, relaxing time for both of us. We were very ready to get back to the children, who were pretty well-behaved and had a great time as well. Anna cried when she saw Mommy, then needed some Daddy-love. She had been cranky all morning, probably missing us. Ben cried when he saw Daddy. He tends to bottle up his emotions more so we weren't surprised when he let go upon seeing us. Matthew was fine but said he did miss us a little :)

So, now we enjoy the last bits of summer before Rob starts seminary. *happy sigh*