Our Weekend Within a Weekend
Just got back from our first ever “overnight away from all three kids” getaway, in honor of our 14th wedding anniversary. As the wife explained to our oldest who wanted to know why we wanted to do such a thing, “Sometimes mommy and daddy need to have some time to just be Ellen and Doug again.” Well put. It even made sense to our inquisitive five year old.
Everything turned out just fine. We were only gone about 18 hours, but it feels much longer. In the good sense of "feeling longer." The babysitter had some trouble with getting the kids to sleep, and they were up at the crack of dawn of course. But she gets to go back to her child-free apartment and nap this afternoon.
Oh, and the place we stayed and dined at, The Nicollet Island Inn, was every bit as good as we’d hoped. Highly recommended. I’ll have a restaurant review written up later, but I don’t want to ignore the excellent accommodations and service offered by the Inn itself.
Everything turned out just fine. We were only gone about 18 hours, but it feels much longer. In the good sense of "feeling longer." The babysitter had some trouble with getting the kids to sleep, and they were up at the crack of dawn of course. But she gets to go back to her child-free apartment and nap this afternoon.
Oh, and the place we stayed and dined at, The Nicollet Island Inn, was every bit as good as we’d hoped. Highly recommended. I’ll have a restaurant review written up later, but I don’t want to ignore the excellent accommodations and service offered by the Inn itself.
Posted by Doug Williams on
Sunday March 12, 2006 at 2:45pm
