Our Getaway!

After lots of planning, Josh and I finally got to get away by ourselves. It's been a surprise for me from Josh to celebrate both our anniversary and my 30th birthday. He's been giving me hints about where we were going but until Wednesday night I still had no clue. He was pretty bummed when I went to work and had my friends brainstorm with me as to where we were going. Skamania Lodge was suggested and I asked him if that was it. He said no but it really was. I was sorry to ruin the surprise for him but I still didn't know that WAS where we were headed until we were on the road on Thursday.

We woke up on Thursday, Josh took our dogs out to Jay and Alia's for their own getaway while I got myself and Megan packed up. After Megan's morning nap, we were on our way to Grandma's house for Megan's getaway. We dropped her off around 1:00 and started driving. We stopped at the Edgefield to do some wine tasting, one of the few perks of being an employee - free wine tasting. Anyway, after that we continued up the Gorge and reached a snow covered Skamania Lodge around 3:45. It was very beautiful.

We got settled in our room and decided to walk around and check the place out. It seemed as if we were the only ones there. We had dinner reservations at 6:30 so we decided to take the opportunity to relax until then and went back to our room to just hang out. At 6:30 we went to the dining room and had a great dinner. It was very peaceful and quiet. Afterwards, we went back to our room, relaxed and went to bed.

Friday morning we started with breakfast in the dining room and then coffee in the lobby by the fireplace. We had our massages at 2:00 so after some more relaxation in our room, we went down to the pool/spa and sat in the hot tub for awhile. We had our massages and then went into the outdoor hot tub which is the picture above. By then we were starving but it was too close to dinner for a full lunch. We decided to go into the town of Stevenson (where the Lodge is located) and see what they have there. We found 'Joe's Mexican Cafe'! We had a margarita and nachos to tie us over until dinner. It was a cute little place in a cute little town. We headed back to our room and went to the seafood buffet dinner at 7:00 that they have every Friday night. It was definitely the place to be because the dining room was now completely full, opposite of Thursday night.

Saturday morning we decided to check out a little early and start back into Portland. We stopped in Troutdale for breakfast and I dragged Josh to IKEA. He was a good sport. He shouldn't have said, "What do you want to do? It IS your birthday!" After that, we came back to our house and started warming the house up again. It was very cold! We decided to go to a movie before we picked Megan up. We saw 'The Bucket List'. It was a really good movie.

Around 5:00 we headed to Tualatin to pick Megan up. When she saw us, she smiled and started toddling over to us. She was an angel for Grandma and Grandpa so that is good. They asked us if we wanted to go to dinner so we headed to Applebees and ate and then headed home.

It was a great weekend! Very relaxing, but I already can't wait for the next time!