short but SWEET!

The weekends always seem too short, but even shorter when it is a weekend away with no kid. Ryan's mom was the hero that stepped in last minute and came up to stay with Sadie. Giving Ryan & I the chance to go to his work retreat at Lake Louise kid free. It was so nice and super fun to kind of remember what we could do with no kids. Sadly for me I still had a hard time staying up too late, and even worse I seriously couldn't sleep in past 7:00. Given the chance again I think I could improve.


The place we stayed was beautiful. Just slightly out of our league, we felt silly using valet parking (have you seen the luxury vehicles we roll in), but a fun perk. It was perfect winter weather we went ice skating, checked out ice sculptures, and went on a hike, ate delicious food and I got to know some of the lawyers Ryan works with. Now I have a harder time not liking them and calling them slave drivers as of course they are all very nice to talk to. Some of them had their kids with them and I think it is always so refreshing to see "big time" lawyers who work ridiculously long, hard hours, just be good fun dads.


I forget what going on a hike with Ryan is like, when it's just us two. I think you learn a lot about the type of person by how they hike. We started out at a good pace and were enjoying the scenery, nature, quiet, and how lucky we are to live close to stuff like this. This is totally my style of hiking I guess I am closer to the stop and smell the roses kinda girl. After hiking a bit further it was all about the pace, how much time we could do this in, we need to set a goal... you get the idea this it TOTAL Ryan. There came a point where we both thought do we have time to finish the hike? Ryan thought maybe we should turn around at a certain time like (4:00) I didn't want to rip myself off of the satisfaction of finishing the hike. So he agreed and I may have regretted this idea. As the rest of the hike he was hot on my heals, pep talking and pushing me up the hike. In the end we made it to the snow covered lake. Then we turned around and pretty much ran down, right after Ryan set the time when we had to be down. Lucky we made it just in time, about half the time it took us to get up.

Cheesy. But this is my victory at the top of the hike.

We got back in time to celebrate Ryan's moms birthday with her. I can't thank her enough for coming up and giving up her weekend to entertain Sadie all day long. It would have been nice if Ryan's dad could have come up too. He is such an early riser, and then I wouldn't have felt so bad when she had to get up at 5:30am with Sadie.