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| Happy 10th Anniversary to us :) |
This year marks TEN (can you believe it?!?!) years since that amazing day we got married on a beach in Costa Rica. TEN. And we’re going back to that beach to celebrate but alas, due to work commitments (adulting sucks - but for the record, just this once it wasn’t MY work commitments ;-P) we couldn’t go on our actual anniversary so that’s a future post to look forward to.
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The outside is deceptively simple
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Fortunately said anniversary did us the favour of landing on a weekend, so C and I booked a mini-escape for ourselves and went to the Inn on the Twenty, which is all of about 20 mins from here. And it was completely lovely.
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| We had the Merrit Suite |
Started with checking into our suite - that not only had sitting area, sleeping area, and giant soaker tub, but there was also a private patio w a hot tub. Win! I was slightly concerned when I discovered that the associated restaurant was actually across the street and not in the same building given a big storm was supposed to be rolling in, but deemed that a future me problem ;)
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Took this before the snow started,
was very much looking forward to using the hot-tub in the evening snow. |
We didn’t really have time to do much more than drop our stuff though before going to the spa for a lovely couples massage that was followed by a random fruit tray? 😂 idk what that’s about but why not? The whole experience was very nicely done.
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Our sitting room - super civilised :)
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Back in our room there were Happy Anniversary welcome treats and we turned on the fire and settled in to relax for a bit before dinner. Super civilized and cozy for a cold Feb day. Sometimes the quiet moments are good for the soul.
Got dressed for dinner and gave half a thought to the fact that appropriate footwear for the dress I was wearing and appropriate footwear to walk across the street to the restaurant in a snowstorm were decidedly not the same thing. I did enjoy getting dressed up though - it’s been too long. And in honour of 10 years, even wearing the same jewellery I got married in. So like most Canadian women, decided I’d suck up the snowstorm for the walk across the street.
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| Was a super-short walk, to the restaurant literally across the street |
Much as I'm not generally a great fan of winter, I have to admit it was the kind of storm that is stunning. It was that kind of thick heavy snow that dampens the sound so everything is extra quiet and special - especially as there were zero cars. Seriously - we stopped in the middle of the road to take photos and it was neither a risk nor a hassle for anybody.
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Look how much snow we're wearing :)
We'd walked not quite half way across a two-lane street. |
Dinner was lovely - 3 course meal was included in our package and every one of them was yummy. They’re even a coke establishment 😂 (those who know….). Our reservation was fairly early so for the first half of the meal patrons were pretty spread out, but it was filling fast by the time we left and the “reservations strongly recommended” was making sense.
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Liked this art in the restaurant;
Particularly when the light reflection looked like moonlight
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There were two options I was debating between for dinner - I picked one and C chose the other. When both arrived I was happy w mine. However, when the same thing happened w desert, C definitely won and by a lot.
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| I don't usually take food pics, but C's desert was so pretty 😂 |
When we went to go back to the hotel, we learned they shovel the whole path door to door! Not their first rodeo clearly ;). It’s the little things in life.
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| The rose was a nice touch |
Back at the hotel there was a rose waiting for us, even though I’d declined turndown service, which was a lovely touch. And since we had the storybook snowfall happening, C swept us a path to the hot tub. Hot tub in the snow is one of life’s simple pleasures. Big white flakes coming down while warm and toasty, yet outside…. It’s so wrong it’s right. And we stayed out there enjoying the quiet and the weather for way longer than was reasonable. Before retreating back to the toasty fire-warmed room.
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No during-storm pictures,
but this was our courtyard the next morning :) |
We had breakfast included in our stay as well so in the am we hiked back to the restaurant - again made simple by the fact that they shovel/plow the path between the two. They also shoveled out the back gate so we could easily get our bags to the car parked on the other side of it when we went to check out. Basically a great combination of a hotel that’s got it figured out, and it not being particularly busy on a random weekend in Feb.
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| Garden beside the hotel |
The town itself is also super cute and we’ll come back and explore sometime when it’s not blizzarding ;).
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| Such a classic winter scene |
Overall was a super nice treat that really made a snowy anniversary special.
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