Mini Vacation

Last week, Stewart had to go to Florida for work.  Luckily, the fact that I'm not working because we always keep thinking we're leaving "next month" made it so that I could go along.  I obviously couldn't attend the meetings with Stewart during the day but I found ways to occupy myself .... working out, surfing the internet, and watching tv (I mean after not having tv for five months, this was addicting!).  Stewart wasn't busy all the time so we got to spend a fair amount of time together as if we were on a mini vacation which was exactly how we viewed it.  We arrived Sunday and headed out to the local beach.  The sun was setting and it was super windy so we didn't stay for long... well, long enough to snap a picture!

We made sure that even with the work stuff, we still had time for ourselves.  On Wednesday, Stewart came back to the hotel room and announced that it was just going to be us for dinner (two of Stewart's coworkers were also on the trip).  We drove around to check out the sites and discuss Florida architecture when it comes to homes.  We found a strip with some massive houses/mansions along the beach so we drove around those for quite awhile discussing our future homes and what we like and don't like.  I love talking about our plans for the future :-)  We stopped at a restaurant on the water for an appetizer before heading back to our room.  We had leftover Chinese food waiting for us.  Stewart had packed some popcorn and I brought my laptop so we had a date night watching Netflix on eating our popcorn.  It was perfect.

On Thursday, the guys only had to work for a couple hours so we headed out to breakfast at a fantastic little cafe that had amazing food.  Stewart and I had eggs benedict and the other guy at breakfast with us had stuffed french toast which I think could have fed an army.  We headed back to the hotel so Stewart could take care of some paperwork that needed printing downstairs.  He ran up to our room to grab something while I waited downstairs.  After he printed his papers, he headed off to work and I headed up to our room where I found a message waiting for me out of toilet paper.  It was very sweet.

 On Friday, Stewart had the whole day free.  We headed to breakfast and then to the beach for a leisurely stroll.  The weather was a little colder but we still had a good time.  At one point, Stewart picked me up and ran into the water and a wave crashed into him soaking his pants.  We went back to the hotel so Stewart could change and then headed out to lunch. We grabbed some slices of pizza (I was amazed at all the food options - everywhere you looked, there was a restaurant!) and then headed off to the zoo.  It was a small zoo but we had a great time walking around and looking at all the animals.  It was set up very well.  We had a great time on our mini vacation.

This bird made me laugh.