Babymoon!

For the past several weeks, Mike and I had our babymoon planned for this weekend. Wait, you don't know what a babymoon is? Well, apparently it's supposed to be a last-ditch effort for soon-to-be parents to enjoy any semblance of freedom. I don't buy into that nonsense. I know Baby will change our lives in myriad ways, but we're still going to be the same people and we're still going to put our relationship first. So for us, the babymoon was all about a chance to take a break from our regular routine and just have a little vacation.  All the way out in Edina. Yes, that's right. Rather than jet off to the (expensive) sunny coasts, we went all of about 5 miles to explore the yuppie-dom that is Edina. And it was fabulous!

We stayed at the Westin, which is a fancy hotel attached to the Galleria. We got there early Saturday afternoon, so we had plenty of time to jump right in the pool!!!! This was the part I had been looking forward to the most: feeling weightless. Ahhhhh. It was heavenly! 

Then we did some window shopping in stores we don't normally frequent - places like Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, Restoration Hardware, Coach, and other high-end places. Then we got dinner using our Groupon for People's Organic, a yummy restaurant with local/organic/sustainable food. After we went back to the hotel, we had another round of swimming (!) before heading back to the Galleria one more time. It's been years since I've left "home" after 8pm, so we were really going crazy when we went to Crave for drinks (for Mike) and dessert (for me) around 9pm. Aren't we wild?!?

This morning we got up early for one more dip in the pool (can you tell I loved being able to float? No back pain! No abdomen pain! Full freedom to stretch my shoulders!) before eating breakfast at Good Earth. (Yes, the place that my mother used to drag me to, kicking and screaming, is now the place that I requested we go to!)

Ah, what a wonderful weekend! Mike and I both had a wonderfully relaxing time (even if I did still wake up every 45 minutes or so, just like at home, even on the hotel's "Heavenly Bed"). I highly recommend a local vacation to anyone else looking to get away!