Our New Year's Trip to Bend

Back around New Years, Cody and I spent a couple of kid-free nights in Bend.  Everyone kept asking us what our plans were... Skiing? Snow shoeing?  Well, not exactly.  We really didn't have any plans.

Before we even checked into our room, we stopped in at Dovetails Furniture. We have been wanting a new bedroom set but furniture shopping with two kids in tow is something that's hard to get excited about.  So, we thought we would take advantage of not having the kids with us and check out my favorite furniture store.  We fell in love with a set and ordered it. Gosh, shopping without kids is efficient!

Next, we checked into our room and hit up the gym for a quick run before going out for dinner.

The next morning rolled around, we tried our best to sleep in. Then we figured since we just upgraded to a king bed, it was only logical to go mattress shopping next. So we did.

I actually enjoyed mattress shopping. Cody was afraid that we weren't going to be able to agree on the firmness of a new mattress but that part ended up being the easy part. We were totally on the same page when it came to that and we agreed on a mattress fairly quickly.  What he wasn't expecting to be an issue was agreeing on a base.  Yes, the base! I wanted an adjustable base but he wasn't mentally prepared for the price tag of an adjustable base.  To make a long story short....I may have taken advantage of him being in "vacation" mode and we ended up ordering the adjustable base. (Which has turned out to be the BEST decision ever! Seriously, our quality of sleep is out of this world now).

After some additional shopping, we decided it was beer time.  So we got back to our hotel, changed and called a cab. We went on a mini brew crawl (Sunriver Brewing Co. was my favorite), had dinner and ended up deciding to walk the 3 miles in the snow back to our hotel room in lieu of calling a cab.  It was a beautiful night and we really just enjoyed the uninterrupted, adult conversation.

When we got back into town, everyone laughed when we told them that most of our time was spent shopping.  But honestly, we were excited about finally getting our room done (after years of pushing it to the bottom of the priority list) and definitely agreed that it was much more enjoyable to do it while we were kid-free. A special thank you to my Mom who made this getaway possible for us!

And now I love our room...