I love that every single year since we started dating he has always made Valentines day special. I have never made a big deal of valentines day, but since Mr. Hill has been in my life he always has.
This year he surprised me with a weekend stay at the St. Regis hotel in Houston. We love to get away and stay in hotels. It is like a little mini escape from the world where the two of you can just focus on each other without the distractions of life.
Friday night we decided to get pizza from Fuzzy's and check into the hotel and watch a movie. You better believe that we valet parked and got out of the car with a 16 inch pizza, and then proceeded to go into the lobby carrying the box. We walked up to the concierge who seemed a little surprised and amused at our audacity to carry in carry out pizza into the St. Regis. It was fun, perfect, and completely us. Pizza is our splurge item of choice and resembles what is most romantic in the world. Reminds me of the John Mayer song comfortable ......
Saturday we got up and had coffee at the local Starbucks and had a little Jesus time together. We then ventured off for an early lunch at Central Market. I had the most amazing salad with roasted asparagus, crispy capers, artichokes, and black olive hummus dressing.
After our lunch had settled we headed over to memorial park to run off the pizza we ate the night before. During college Chris injured his knee quite badly. After several surgeries and lots of prayer Chris is now able to play basketball and run outside. I realize that going to the park to run seems normal but this was a huge deal for us because literally this was the first time we have gone to the park together. After several weeks of terrible weather Saturday ended up being perfect. There was not a cloud in the sky and it was a wonderful 70 degrees outside.
After our run we did a little window shopping in the Montrose area and got a little frozen yogurt. We returned to the hotel to get ready for our dinner and movie later on that night. We went and saw the King's Speech at the River Oak theatre - it is probably one of the best movies that we have seen in a long time. After the movie we had a late dinner at Michealangelos. My Mimi and Papa took me to this restaurant growing up, so I have a lot of memories there. It is an old italian place in Montrose that has a tree growing inside of it. The food and service is perfect and the atmosphere is even better.
The next day we slept in and Chris got up and got us coffee. We had some more Jesus time together and then checked out of the hotel. One of our friends told us about the Urban Market happening this past weekend, so Chris and I went and had a fun time getting inspiration for our house!
We then returned back to reality where we cleaned the house and did laundry.
It was an absolutely perfect weekend!
1 comment:
how wonderful! so glad you two had such a fun weekend "getaway" :)
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