Cameron and I spent all of last week at a resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He qualified for the trip from one of the insurance companies that he writes business with. So here is the story of our first vacation with no kiddos...
We left our house Monday morning at around 7:00 a.m. Our plane was scheduled to leave at 9:30 a.m. so that gave us plenty of time! It was hard leaving the boys but both of us were so excited it helped from getting too emotional. Plus the boys were happy to be staying with my mom. So off we were to our traveling day from hell...
We arrived at the airport to find that our flight to Houston was delayed until 11:30 am which meant we were going to be missing our flight to Milwaukee. Talk about frustrating. So we fly to Houston only to sit there and wait 3 hours for another flight to Milwaukee which put us there 7:00 pm when we were suppose to originally be there at 3:00 pm. Plus there was a reception dinner that started at 6:30 pm that we were suppose to be at. It was awful! But to our surprise the owner of the company had an Excursion Limo waiting for us to take us to the resort which was an hour drive. We were with 3 other couples which also left Austin and we asked the limo driver to stop at the first liquor store he could find! LOL! Needless to say the drive there was great :)
The resort was amazing! It was an old Playboy resort and was absolutely gorgeous! And everyone there was so nice.
Here was the view from our room
They had a beautiful restaurant out by the pool that we ate at almost everyday because this was our view...gorgeous!
The weather was also perfect :) I don't think it ever got above 80 degrees.
Our room was super nice but here was our favorite part of it...
There was a TV in the bathroom mirror! It was seriously the coolest thing ever!!!!
Tuesday night we decided to take a cab in town with another couple on the trip and walk around and eat at one of the local restaurants. Lake Geneva is one of the most beautiful towns I have ever been to!
On Wednesday we decided to hit up this place where you could rock climb, zip line and try out a ropes course. It was really cool that morning and cloudy but we decided to go out anyway. Another couple went with us and we all had a blast!
Here we are...Timil, Kelly, Cam and me
I was the ONLY one that made it all the way to the top of the rock wall.
Needless to say Cam was a little embarrassed that his little wife kicked his butt! LOL! He could only make it about halfway up!
And...I might add...I was the first one to walk across the wooden beam. After I did Cam said there was no way he wasn't going to try it! So he did and made it perfectly.
Zip lining (not sure if thats a word) was so much fun! It's amazing how fast it feels like you are going.
Here is Cam on the ropes course. All the pictures of me are from behind and not very flattering :)
Waiting to zip
Later that afternoon we joined the group and went of a dinner cruise on Lake Geneva. The houses on the lake were amazing!
Here is one of the Wrigley's (the gum owners) houses
And here is the owner of Morton Salt's house
By Thursday I was ready to come home. I missed my boys so bad and Aiden was kind of having a hard time with me being gone. I told Cam we had to do something to keep us busy all day so we rented a car and headed off to Chicago! It was only about a hour and half drive and it was so nice!
This was our first stop.
We ate lunch...Chicago hot dogs... right across the street at a place called The Cubby Bear.
Then we took a train and headed into downtown. Chicago is such a beautiful city! I have been to NYC and I have to say Chicago puts it to shame.
These pictures are from the top of the Sears Tower (well not really the top but as high as they let you go).
Here are my feet on the Sky Deck. I was a little nervous to actually walk all the way in it :)
Cam was totally freaked out by being in it. He almost had a heartattack when I touched his back to get this picture.
Us at Union Station.
All I could think of the whole time I was there was about "My Best Friend's Wedding."
Chicago was my favorite part of the trip! I cannot wait to take the boys back one day.
Our last day on vacation we spent laying around and being lazy. We had an awards banquet to go to that evening and I was so ready to go home and see my little men. The vacation was great and spending time with my hubby was super great! It's like we got to be the people we were before we had kids and that was kind of neat. It reminded us why we fell in love with each other. I think every couple needs to get away from the everyday stresses of life and relax and just enjoy each other.
*Just wanted to add that I am sorry about the blur in the middle of most of the pictures. I discovered that my lens on my camera is cracked. Big bummer :(
