Mini Retreat

This weekend was super fun and special.  As my Valentine's gift Dan got us a room at the Marriott in downtown Brooklyn for Friday night.  I was so excited all day at work just waiting for 6 o'clock to roll around and I could bust out on our mini vacation.  Even though we were only about 20 minutes from our apartment it still felt like a retreat.

I met Dan at the Shake Shack in Brooklyn after work and we had most excellent burgers, fries, and a shared shake.

The hotel was just a short block away which was good considering it was like 2 degrees outside.  We snuggled right in browsing the cable TV selections.

Later, we headed down to the pool to hopefully get some hot tub time but there were two adults and three toddlers in it despite the large sign that said "No children under the age of 12 are permitted in the hot tub."  Humph.  So we jumped in the pool for about 10 minutes until a gaggle of little kids took over.  That was sort of a bummer but at least we took a dip.  Also my cover-up pockets still had Cape May sand in them, which made me really happy.

Kiss bomb!

The rest of the night we spent trying to find snacks.  The vending machine on our floor was only beverages.  The vending machine by the pool was a "healthy snacks" what???  Room service was charging $10 for one slice of cheesecake and what we really wanted was candy.  So we suited up and headed out into the cold.  The Rite Aid ended up being under construction so we hurried our frozen booties as fast as we could to the Duane Reade (I was wearing pjs) and returned to our room armed with snacks.  We enjoyed our snacks while watching about 10 episodes of Flipping Vegas and then snuggled in our bed covered in about 8 pillows.

We didn't sleep-in too much since we had to check-out at 11 am but we still enjoyed the cable TV for a couple more shows.  Then we headed down the block to Panera for breakfast and then shopping!

Our morning view

Near the hotel is a shopping district with a couple of my favorite stores: Gap Factory, TJMaxx, and they even had a new H&M.  We stopped along while making our way to the destination of the day:  The Circus!!  Stay tuned for that.   

Our little overnight was a really fun and sweet retreat that certainly won't be a regular occasion which made it all the more special.