So about a month ago I decided David and I needed a night away from the kids. I think the last time we were away from the kids was about 4 years ago before Parker was born. I wanted to surprise David for a couple reasons. One, it is awesome because he HATES surprises!! Two, because I LOVE to surprise people. So, it worked out well for both of us! I set up a baby-sitter for the time, when Trish was at work and made sure Trish could do a sleepover with the kids. Then I found a hotel in Midway. We had never been there and I had heard so many good things about it. I also made sure that David was not on call for that weekend. He was suspicious when I asked him his next weekend he would be on call, so I told him that I wanted my birthday present from last year, which was me having a day off from the kids and doing whatever I want!
David knew something was up, because I kept making sure he wasn’t on call that weekend and I told him he couldn’t look at the bank account or Amazon. He was convinced we were going camping with the kids for the big surprise. I played along with it and let him believe he ruined the surprise and that we were in fact going camping for his big surprise. He was very proud of himself for solving the mystery! It was hilarious!!!
So Friday came and I went along with me taking my day off and went to get my hair cut and did a little shopping for the weekend. We left at about 3:00 and I informed him we were going swimming somewhere. He thought I was crazy and didn’t believe me. About 30 minutes into driving to Midway he couldn’t take it anymore and forced me to tell him what was going on. So I told him we had a hotel at the Zermatt in Midway and dinner reservations at a delicious steakhouse as well as a reservation to go swimming at the Crater in Midway. It is this natural crater with a natural hot spring that you can go swimming in. The temperature naturally stays at about 93-96 degrees. It was amazing!! So relaxing and nice. I didn’t get any picture of us in the water because I don’t have a waterproof camera! But here is a picture of what it looks like. I’d recommend you go there. Very neat and very relaxing.
So after we went swimming here we went back to the hotel and got ready for dinner. It’s called Z’s Steak and Chop Haus. It was so delicious. We got the filet mignons and they just melted in our mouths. The waitress started out so strong really nice and kept checking on us until we ordered and then it all went downhill. She never checked on us, took away all of our silverware after we finished our little bread plate and then never brought us our check until we hunted her down. I guess she figured she wouldn’t waste her time on us since we weren’t drinking like all the tables surrounding us. Also, the place was not busy at all, so she didn’t have that excuse, but what can you do. Luckily the food was delicious.
After dinner we went and relaxed and walked around the hotel. It had a Switzerland theme to it and was really gorgeous. The view from our room was amazing of the mountains. We went and saw Meet the Mormons at this tiny little theater in Midway for the 9:00 showing. It was really a great show to watch and just told about the lives of 6 different Mormons around the world. It was very moving and I am so glad we went and saw it.
The next morning we slept in and then headed home around 10:00 a.m. It was so nice to get away even for just one night and less than 24 hours. The kids all did amazing with my sister, Trish. The hardest thing she said was keeping her new cat, Pepper, and Biscuit from playing all night long!
I think David was truly surprised and it was a great time spending time alone with him. 10 years and we still like being together. That’s gotta mean something!
