First Time for Everything!

It was officially 21 months and 2 weeks to the day before Anthony and I left Nolan overnight for the first time!  We each have taken random overnights away from him before, but never both of us at the same time.

I figured in honor of Anthony's 35th birthday that a special night away was in order :)  So, I cooked up a surprise for him where my mom agreed to come over on Saturday around lunch, so that Anthony and I could go see a movie and then head to a hotel in downtown Raleigh for the night.  He was so surprised when I told them the night before, and really excited!

I didn't get a lot of pictures that night, but we had such a great time, and it was a much-needed time for us to connect and enjoy some quality time together.  We are WITH each other a lot, but with a crazy toddler in tow it's hard to talk and reconnect.

We headed out around noon and caught a matinee showing of Ant Man, which was the FIRST movie I had been to since before Nolan was born!  I know I was a bit rusty, but I really enjoyed the movie and thought the effects were pretty good!

 

After the movie we decided to take a quick walk through the art museum.  Anthony had never been before, and although it's right around the corner from my office, I hadn't been there since high school.  It was free admission, which was great, so we strolled around for about 45 minutes until we decided to head to the hotel.  I was hoping to grab a quick nap (oh joy!) before we headed out to dinner that night.

 

We grabbed a drink at the restaurant down in the lobby, and checked into our room.  We both felt a bit odd with so much spare time, and no schedule in sight!  I tried to nap, but I am not used to it anymore so I actually couldn't sleep!  We rallied and headed out to walk around downtown and find a place to eat dinner around 8:00 or so.

 

 

Randomly, as we passed a new restaurant, we ran into a partner from my office, and he and his wife urged us to try the restaurant they had just left.  We had no other ideas of where to go, so they were able to get us a seat in the super busy restaurant, and down we sat!

 

We were seated right at the bar and had a great time talking to the bartender and deciding what to eat.  I didn't see too much on the menu that I was hungry for, so opted for a salad and Anthony got oysters.  We did enjoy a couple of dessert items at the end, and they were beautiful!  My salad and the dessert both had flowers in them...I must have eaten a whole bouquet by the end of the night - ha!

 



We ended the night with some more junk food room service, and tried to sleep in as late as possible.  I missed my baby monitor noise, so I downloaded a "white noise" app to try and sleep!  Anthony was the one that woke up first, so there wasn't much sleeping in.  I think it would take more than one night for our normal internal clocks to get used to sleeping past 6 a.m.!

We ended our adventure with an awesome brunch at the hotel bar, and then headed home to our little man.  He had an awesome weekend with G, and was just as happy to see us as we were to see him.  I am looking forward to another night away with my hubby, but will be just fine with one night and not more right now :)