Paaark Cittttaaaay!

justin & i needed a break.
father's day was coming up. i booked us a room at the waldorf astoria dakota mountain lodge in park city, utah. we had such a fabulous time.


it was also my first night away from ezra. 

i wasn't sure how i would do without him, but i was distracted enough that i actually did okay. 


so, the whole thing was a surprise for justin. i packed our bags while he was at work, put them in the trunk of my dad's GTR, packed a bag for ezra, dropped him off at justin's parents and made it seem like we'd be back later that night, and we pulled up to the hotel. justin thought we were just eating dinner there. but when the valet guy opened my door and asked: "will you be checking in today, ma'am?" and i was like "yep!" justin gave me this look like "whaaaat?!" he didn't think i had it in me to leave ezra. but the hotel was just wonderful. we loved it. super nice, like val said.

to your left is the main lobby. the steel on that staircase alone cost $30,000. 

 

a curved and flared staircase is not cheap, by any means.

this is i on our way to the outlets. which were fabulous, btw. banana repub had some good deals as did downeast. and eddie bauer. 

we had a free gift certificate to this place called "nacho mama's". the food was actually pretty good. we got there at about 6 pm on a friday night though and there was only one other couple eating there. we thought they must be closed. ha ha.

[after dinner and shopping we went swimming! but i don't have any pictures of that. but it was beautiful. the pool was kinda cold so we just did the hot tubs. ]

justin eating trollie britte fruit crawlers in our room.

ezra had a great time with the sorensons. he went to the carnival and rode the carousel, slept from 10pm to 5:30am (wahoo!), and went to the strawberry days parade in the morning and loved it. i will post pics when i get some from mare.

by the time justin and i got home, we had totally forgotten that we are even parents! but we were excited to be with ezra again and to start actually parenting again. but sometimes you've just got to take a break from reality and be with the one you love for a while. it does the soul a lot of good.

thanks to everyone who made this weekend possible!