I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend! I know we did. Muffin spent the weekend with his grandparents on the coast living it up. We had a "Mommy and Daddy" weekend in Mammoth, CA for a mountain-top wedding of two of our great friends. I was really looking forward to the time to just be a couple for a few days, celebrating our friends and later our own sixth wedding anniversary.
It was busy, busy all-day Friday and Saturday with the drive, rehearsal, dinner, wedding prep and wedding (MOH duties, I think, were executed to their fullest!). What a beautiful place with wonderful people. The wedding was fabulous, but I was really looking forward to a bit of relaxing, reconnecting time with Sweetie. I was thinking we should have made some special anniversary plans for us on Sunday, but with everything being so busy neither of us had a chance.
Then on Sunday, having no plans, we just took our time. We checked out late, did a little shopping, got a late lunch, took the long and scenic way, checked out anything we wanted to, stopped for a leisurely sushi dinner up at Tahoe and eventually wound our way home by 9pm. Mind you, Mammoth is only three hours away so we really took our time. And it was the greatest. Because there was no place to be, no schedule, no hurry...just the two of us doing exactly what we wanted in the moment and relaxing. Should we turn up here and check this out? Why yes. Why not?
It was in these moments of throwing caution to the wind and taking the long route that I realized since Muffin had arrived we have always been on a schedule. Don't get me wrong- it's a happy, loving, baby world but we have a pattern to every day: morning, noon and night. Sleeping, eating, playing...it's all on a fairly predictable and set time-table. Being "off" a schedule of any sort for just a day was brilliant. And I highly recommend it.
So, in the future when we take a weekend just for us, I will make sure to make no plans and no reservations. Just a full tank of gas, my Sweetie and the open road makes the "ultimate" weekend away.
Happy trails!
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