Alright, so I haven’t blogged in way too long; well, twelve days to be exact. My apologies. I’m going to at least try to explain myself. I have been busy to say the least. The week after the Christmas party was pretty hectic. I had a lot of stuff happen. None in which I can go in to complete detail simply because I’m trying to keep this entry under 30,000 words. Heh. All in all, it was a very long week. Nickolas was having some problems at school. Our rent jumped up so we had to start to look for a new apartment because we aren’t going to stay here where it’s now not worth it at all. I had to pack and prep for our weekend getaway. Goodness, two weeks ago was a very busy week to say the least.

Now to what you all have been waiting for, our weekend getaway.  It was a great weekend. I really can’t describe everything and anything that happened simply because … well … Yea, I’m not going there. Haha! Anyways, we stayed at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells.

It was a fairly nice place. I mean, for the price, I was expecting a five-star resort, but it was … well not that. I don’t know, I really can’t complain. It’s a fairly nice place, but if I would have paid a large amount of money for that – I’d be pretty pissed off. We had won a gift card from Mike’s company Christmas Party last year and just now were able to take the vacation away to use it.  It still ended up costing us out of pocket to go to this place. It ended up being like $450 for the weekend for just the room (which included access to the waterpark – which we didn’t even go to.)

On Friday afternoon, Mike got off work early and we went to take the kids over to his Mom’s house because she was going to watch the boys for us over the weekend. We dropped them off and had a couple of places we had to run around to, including the adult “video” store.  After some long browsing and buying there, we finally headed on our way to the Dells.

It took us a lot longer to get up that than we had originally anticipated but that was alright. We went to Walmart to get some munchies and such for while we were in our room. We ended up just getting dinner there too. We got to the hotel and went to go check in. We noticed there were tons of people around, and all of them were apart of a group. We noticed a sign on the front desk, “MASS SATURDAY AT 6:30PM IN THE CONVENTION CENTER”. We didn’t really think much of it. Mike realized shortly after that, there was a church convention going on that weekend. HA!

We were there to have a romantic, affectionate, and well, quite frankly, kinky type of weekend together. Here we were, surrounded by thousands of bible huggers preaching to one another about their morals. Oh goodness, help me. I told Mike, “If I see a large group of them, I plan to slap your ass or throw you up against the wall and make out with you in a serious way.” I was going to at least have a little fun while I was there. We made our way up to our room which was on the 3rd floor, all the way at the end of the hall. The last room on that floor. We walked in and I wasn’t too impressed, but it would definitely serve its purpose as “our home” for the weekend.

It wasn’t a bad room. We had a king size bed, coffee maker, microwave, mini fridge, two sinks (one in the bathroom, another outside of the bathroom so someone else could get ready) and a jacuzzi tub. Yes, there is a jacuzzi tub behind the loveseat. It’s surrounded by mirrors. It was pretty big though. We were content with the room.

On Saturday after we had awoken, we laid in bed and just watched some tv together. My god, how peaceful was that. No kids screaming for you to get up. No one telling you they wet their bed, or jumping on the bed. No demands for breakfast. We rolled over, and it was silence. I honestly believe we both really needed that. It was so damn relaxing. I forgot what it was like to wake up without having a single worry in the world. Sure, we go out all the time without the kids since they’re at the grandparents overnight, but we almost always have to pick them up by 9-11am so as soon as we wake up, we are rushing out the door.

After a while, we got up and decided to browse around the hotel for a while. We threw on our lounge clothes and started to see what kind of stuff we could get in to. We wanted to go to the Bistro and get some coffee and pastries for breakfast but they didn’t have anything out for us to see what was available. Then, while we were walking around there were tons of these teenagers, that were all wearing name tags and descriptions of what churches they were apart of. We walked by the “Resurrection” room towards the gift shops. There wasn’t a whole lot at the shops, so we continued to check out the arcade and then the indoor waterpark. We didn’t even look in the waterpark. If it was any indication of anything else we say, we knew we weren’t going to be impressed. We headed back to our room to carry on with the rest of the day, while we were in the elevator we found a few bibles lined up on the advertising frame. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind religious people, but jeez don’t push your religious bible hugging bull shit on me. Thanks.

*Remind you, I’m leaving out some obvious parts ;]* We headed back to our room got some stuff and headed over to the Outlet Malls. We found some new shoes for Mikhail – he has to wear special, expensive shoes because he has Mike’s incredibly wide feet. We also found him some sleepers. I searched and searched for something for Nickolas, but wasn’t able to find anything he doesn’t already have. After we shopped, we headed to lunch. We went to Buffalo Phil’s and got some food. It was so good. I got the chicken fajitas. Yum! We ate far too much and headed back to our room because there really isn’t a whole lot to do in the Dells in the winter time. Obviously all the waterparks, attractions, and such are all closed.

After some relaxing and such, I decided to spend about an hour in the jacuzzi tub. I laid down, turned on the jets, added some bubbles and just laid there for an hour. I was so incredible relaxed. My mind couldn’t even think of a single thing to worry about or dwell on. I got out and just felt, so relieved. I went and took some pictures of our view from outside of our room.

It was an awesome view. You could see the Wisconsin River in the background and there was a small creek that came off the river. I liked it. I must say though, at night when I went out to smoke a cigarette, I was scared that some vampire was going to jump off the top of the trees. LOL

After going back and forth about what we were going to do next, we ended up going to Ho Chunk Casino. We ate at the buffet and went downstairs to do some gambling. Because we signed up for their rewards program we each got free $10 to play on the slots. Mike and I sat down at a $0.05 slot and started to play. As soon as we hit something, even if it was tiny, we got up and moved to another machine. We bounced from one machine to the next playing penny, two-cent, and nickle slots for a few hours. Eventually, I hit $50 on a penny slot. We could have stopped there, but we were out and having fun so we kept playing. I got down to $25 and sat down at a different slot. I got myself back up to $35 but kept playing since Mike was on his machine still. I hit $22 again and was like, “okay it’s time to go.” Needless to say, it was money we were playing that wasn’t even our anyways, and we came out ahead or you can say our dinner at the buffet was free. We headed on “home” and after some relaxing we went to bed.

The next morning we had to get up early and check out. We got up and relaxed a while before leaving.We left and headed to IHOP for some breakfast then back to Walmart so we could buy his parents their new tv we planned on getting them. We had a fairly quick ride home and went to his parents house to watch the Superbowl with them and the kids.

It was an amazing weekend. Mike and I really got the chance to re-connect. Trips like that away have always made us “reconnect and fall in love all over again”. I think we definitely needed it. I mean, granted as soon as we were home and the normal stresses of life were back on our shoulders things kinda went back to normal – either way, we still have in our memories that we were able to spend such an amazing weekend together. I love him. He really made it magical for me. He expressed how much he cared and loved me. I wish we didn’t have to leave to come back to reality. I’d miss the kids – eventually but that weekend to me was short lived. I still enjoyed myself regardless.

Written on Sunday February 14th, 2010 at 10:43pm || Filed under: Love ||