We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary at the Herrington Inn & Spa. And lemme tell ya - this place rocks. I mean ROCKS. The room was gorgeous, the bathtub was huge, the champagne was cold. What else could a girl need? Oh, a spa on the floor below ours? Perfect...I'll take it. It's always fun to go somewhere new and have it actually be better than you imagined. Sometimes you look at something on the web and you think "could it possibly be that awesome?" And in this case the answer is yes. Double yes. Triple yes. I highly recommend this for anyone celebrating an anniversary, birthday, or absolutely nothing...just go...now...GO. But make reservations early. The inn only has 61 rooms. We stayed a river premiere room, so we had a view, and that was great. We also had a fireplace, which was nice, and the king size bed was fantastic.
In-room bath you say? YES! The spa delivered the relaxing bath essentials to our door, and it was a great way to start our weekend getaway. The people in the spa were wonderful - I had a body polish...and I'm pretty sure my skin is better than the day I was born. My massage on Sunday morning was just what the doctor ordered, and considering I literally crawled out of bed, into my robe and slippers and hopped the elevator down for my treatment...brilliant. I was greeted with smiles and herbal tea.
The town of Geneva has great shopping...and a winery outlet for the Galena winery. They actually had some great offerings. (and we purchased some of them to share!) I also picked up one of these, because, well, you know I had to have one!
And then when we went down the street to find some Fat Tire, the Savway was having a special 18-hour sale and wine tasting. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Who has this kind of luck. We tasted only a few as we did have to drive home and pick up the kids, who were eating my parents out of house and home. I called to check in a couple of times, every time I did Alex was sleeping and Owen was eating. Do you all know what this means? Yep, I'll be buying them both new pants and shoes soon. Damn kids will not stop growing no matter what I do!
We had dinner at Foxfire, and not only was the food yummy, but the service was amazing. My husband and I have been in love with St. Charles for a long time, but now that we've found Geneva? I think we may be looking at weekend getaways there.
How was YOUR weekend?
Happy couple after a weekend at the Herrington
Happy couple after a weekend at the Herrington
9 comments:
Congratulations on five years!!!
I'm glad you had such a wonderful time, but I'm going to need WAY more information about the food. Seriously, you only wrote like 2 lines about it...are you okay?
Actually, I just looked and it was only 1 line about the food. I'm really worried.....
What a great picture, and it sounds way better than raking leaves and soccer games in the rain that my weekend offered me. Lucky!
Nice picture and happy anniversary, but girl, that hat is GAY
Hey Eileen! I raked leaves on my anniversary too! Amazing!
Great picture... sounds like a great weekend!
Oh young Kathy - fear not. I am not ill. The food...we had stuffed mushrooms. I can't remember what,exactly they were stuffed WITH, I just know they were yummy. And then we got salads, and they were just okay. And THEN our steaks came out. I had the bleu cheese encrusted filet and kev-head got the prime rib. I got garlic mashed with mine and kev-head got...ummmmm...yeah, I can't remember. Kevin wanted dessert, and he ordered the carrot cake - that was the ONLY thing that sucked. It was really dry.
On Sunday we just got burgers at a local pub.
And Pea the hat is NOT gay! I love it. And I'm going to wear it the next time and every time I see you. So get used to it. HA!
know how I know you are gay???...that hat
Great picture....sounds like a fabulous weekend. I didn't realize it's already been five years. Congratulations to both of you.
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