Our Lovely Little Fall Weekend

This weekend was our staycation that I mentioned in our last post. With all the stress of work and school and keeping up the house, we definitely needed some time away, if only for a night. Like I mentioned, we splurged for a nicer suite that we normally would get. Well when we arrived there Saturday, we found out they upgraded us to a premiere suite! Oh my gosh it was huge! When looking for our room, we reached the end of a hallway and didn't find our room number. Then Rick was like "Um, I think it's behind you," and instead of a regular door, it was two huge double doors that said "Admiral's Retreat" on the outside haha!

And retreat it was. This was the largest room we've ever stayed in. It had a closed-in porch, fireplace in the living room, whirlpool with TV in the bathroom, full kitchen and separate bedroom. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

We took advantage of the whirlpool and the fireplace (it was unseasonably warm here, so we turned the air down really low, so it'd be cool enough to use the fireplace ha!) We did go out to dinner and to the gambling boat (I walked away $25 richer thankyouverymuch!). We also walked down by the marina and tried to get some pics of the skyline at night.

But because we had such a nice room, we wanted to stay in and use it, so we rented a couple movies through Redbox. 

Stay far, far away from a movie called Bending All the Rules. It was marketed as a new release, and it had Bradley Cooper in it. The synopsis sounded good. However, we didn't look at the year it was actually released ('02), and it was seriously the worst movie I've ever watched. I even think it was worse than that one thriller I picked out a few years ago that was actually in German. We shut it off within twenty minutes (Rick was pushing to turn it off after five!) Luckily, we also rented Dinner for Schmucks, which we had seen before, but it was at least watchable!

Sunday, we got some stuff done around the apartment, including putting up our fall decorations outside!

 
The eyeballs hanging down actually light up and change color at night.

I love fall and all the colors, so I decided to take some shots of pretty fall foliage around our neighborhood and also up on Grandview Drive where we went for a jog this evening.

I love going up on Grandview. It's a street that has a gorgeous view of the river and is lined with humongous houses! I dream of living up there someday.

Today I had off work for Columbus Day, but it didn't seem like it, what with all the paper-grading and homework that took place. Blah. I made myself run tonight with Rick because I desperately needed to. I felt good after I did it, but I need to get back into a routine. And start eating better again. That's our goal in the upcoming weeks.

But now it's back to the grind. I have such a busy week with it being the end of the quarter and having projects for Grad school. This weekend we don't have any big plans except for getting things accomplished. I hope the weather starts feeling more fall-like too. I want to wear my fall clothes and not shorts! That's so wrong!

We hope you had a lovely weekend as well.